union
英英释意
- 1. an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer;
- "you have to join the union in order to get a job"
- 2. the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes;
- "the casual couplings of adolescents"
- "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring"
- 3. the state of being joined or united or linked;
- "there is strength in union"
- 4. the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce);
- "a long and happy marriage"
- "God bless this union"
- 5. healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones
- 6. a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations;
- "the Soviet Union"
- 7. a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets;
- "let C be the union of the sets A and B"
- 8. the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts;
- "lightning produced an unusual union of the metals"
- 9. a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)
- 10. the act of making or becoming a single unit;
- "the union of opposing factions"
- "he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays"