union

Significado

Noun

1. The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
2. The state of being united or joined; a state of unity or harmony.
3. That which is united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league.
4. A trade union; a workers' union.
5. An association of students at a university for social and/or political purposes; also in some cases a debating body.
6. A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.
7. The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.
8. The act or state of marriage.
9. Sexual intercourse.
10. A data structure that can store any of various types of item, but only one at a time.
11. A large, high-quality pearl.
12. An affiliation of several parishes for joint support and management of their poor; also the jointly-owned workhouse.

Verb

To combine sets using the union operation.

Adj

1. Belonging to, represented by, or otherwise pertaining to a labour union.
2. federal.

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈjuː.njən/

Etimología

From Middle English unyoun, from Old French union, from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”). Doublet of unio.

Oraciones

A key objective of the group was the union of art and the people .

Un objetivo clave del grupo era la Unión del Arte y el Pueblo.

He becomes involved with the Labour Party and the union movement .

Se involucra con el Partido Laborista y el Movimiento de la Unión.