union

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one. countable
  2. The state of being united or joined; a state of unity or harmony. uncountable
  3. Something united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league. countable
  4. A trade union; a workers' union. countable
    — In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.
  5. An association of students at a university for social and/or political purposes; also in some cases a debating body. countable
  6. A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes. countable
  7. The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets. countable
  8. The act or state of marriage. countable
  9. Sexual intercourse. archaic,euphemistic,uncountable
  10. A data structure that can store any of various types of item, but only one at a time. countable
    — Unions are useful in those cases where you need to keep track of a value that can be represented as different data types during the lifetime of the program.
  11. A large, high-quality pearl. archaic,countable
    — Nonius the senator hath a purple coat as stiff with jewels as his mind is full of vices; rings on his fingers worth 20,000 sesterces, and[…]an union in his ear worth an hundred pounds' weight of gold […]
  12. An affiliation of several parishes for joint support and management of their poor; also the jointly-owned workhouse. countable,historical,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To combine sets using the union operation.
形容词 adj.
  1. Belonging to, represented by, or otherwise pertaining to a labour union.
    — Actors have to be union to get work here.
  2. federal. India
    — The union government of India

词形变化

unions plural unions present,singular,third-person unioning participle,present unioned participle,past unioned past more union comparative most union superlative

词源

词源 1
From Middle English unyoun, from Old French union, from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”). Doublet of unio.
词源 2
From Middle English unyoun, from Old French union, from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”). Doublet of unio.
词源 3
From Middle English unyoun, from Old French union, from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”). Doublet of unio.
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