Synonyms of the word

union

• n. (countable) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
• n. (uncountable) The state of being united or joined.
• n. (countable) That which is united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts…
• n. (countable) A trade union; a workers' union.
• n. (countable) An association of students at a university for social and/or political purposes; also in some…
• n. (countable) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.
• n. (countable, set theory) The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.
• n. (countable) The act or state of marriage.
• n. (uncountable, archaic, euphemistic) Sexual intercourse.
• n. (countable, computing) A data structure that can store any of various types of item, but only one at a…
• n. (countable, now rare, archaic) A large, high-quality pearl.
• v. To combine sets using the union operation.

brotherhood

• n. The state of being brothers or a brother.
• n. An association for any purpose, such as a society of monks; a fraternity.
• n. The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, especially those of the same profession.
• n. Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind.

closed

• adj. Sealed, made inaccessible or impassable; not open.
• adj. (of a store or business) Not operating or conducting trade.
• adj. Not public.
• adj. (topology, of a set) Having an open complement.
• adj. (mathematics, of a set) Such that its image under the specified operation is contained in it.
• adj. (mathematics, logic, of a formula) Lacking a free variable.
• adj. (graph theory, of a walk) Whose first and last vertices are the same.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of close.

combination

• n. The act of combining, the state of being combined or the result of combining.
• n. An object formed by combining.
• n. A sequence of numbers or letters used to open a combination lock.
• n. (mathematics) One or more elements selected from a set without regard to the order of selection.
• n. An association or alliance of people for some common purpose.
• n. (billiards) A combination shot; a billiard; a shot where the cue ball hits a ball that strikes another…
• n. motorcycle and sidecar.
• n. a rapid sequence of punches or strikes in boxing or other combat sports.

combining

• v. present participle of combine.
• n. The act by which things are combined or brought together.

compounding

• v. present participle of compound.
• n. An accumulation of compound interest.

conglutination

• n. An adhesion, or gluing together.
• n. The agglutination of an antigen, antibody and complement by the addition of a serum agent.

conjugation

• n. The coming together of things.
• n. (biology) The temporary fusion of organisms, especially as part of sexual reproduction.
• n. Sexual relations within marriage.
• n. (grammar) In some languages, one of several classifications of verbs according to what inflections they…
• n. (grammar) The act of conjugating a verb.
• n. (grammar) The conjugated forms of a verb.
• n. (chemistry) A system of delocalized orbitals consisting of alternating single bonds and double bonds.
• n. (mathematics) A mapping sending x to gxg^-1, where g and x are elements of a group; inner automorphism.
• n. (mathematics) A function which negates the non-real part of a complex or hypercomplex number; complex…

coupling

• v. present participle of couple.
• n. act of joining together to form a couple.
• n. a device that couples two things together.
• n. (computing) the degree of reliance between two program modules.
• n. (electronics) a connection between two electronic circuits such that a signal can pass between them.
• n. (physics) The property of physical systems that they are interacting with each other.
• n. (sexuality) sexual intercourse.

device

• n. Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
• n. (computing) A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
• n. A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
• n. (Ireland) An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb.
• n. (rhetoric) A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience;…
• n. (heraldry) A motto, emblem, or other mark used to distinguish the bearer from others. A device differs…
• n. (archaic) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
• n. (law) An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
• n. (printing) An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
• n. (obsolete) A spectacle or show.
• n. (obsolete) Opinion; decision.

happening

• v. present participle of happen.
• adj. (slang, of a place) Busy, lively; vibrant, dynamic; fashionable.
• adj. (slang, of a person or product) Trendy, up-to-the-minute.
• n. Something that happens.
• n. A spontaneous or improvised event, especially one that involves audience participation.

healing

• n. The process where the cells in the body regenerate and repair themselves.
• n. An act of healing, as by a faith healer.
• n. The psychological process of dealing with a problem or problems.
• v. present participle of heal.

join

• v. (transitive) To combine more than one item into one; to put together.
• v. (intransitive) To come together; to meet.
• v. (transitive) To come into the company of.
• v. (transitive) To become a member of.
• v. (computing, databases, transitive) To produce an intersection of data in two or more database tables.
• v. To unite in marriage.
• v. (obsolete, rare) To enjoin upon; to command.
• v. To accept, or engage in, as a contest.
• n. An intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect.
• n. (computing, databases) An intersection of data in two or more database tables.
• n. (algebra) The lowest upper bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the…

jointure

• n. (obsolete) A joining; a joint.
• n. (law) An estate settled on a wife, which she is to enjoy after her husband's death, for her own life at…
• v. (transitive) To settle a jointure upon.

marriage

• n. The state of being married.
• n. A union of two or more people that creates a family tie and carries legal, social, and/or religious rights…
• n. A wedding; a ceremony in which people wed.
• n. (figuratively) A close union.
• n. A joining of two parts.
• n. (card games) A king and a queen, when held as a hand in Texas hold 'em or melded in pinochle.
• n. (card games) In solitaire or patience games, the placing a card of the same suit on the next one above…

mating

• adj. Fitting into or onto a corresponding part, as a matched plug and socket.
• n. (zoology) Pairing of organisms for copulation.
• v. present participle of mate.

matrimony

• n. Marriage; the state of being married.
• n. The ceremony of marriage.
• n. A particular solitaire card game using two decks of cards.

northern

• adj. Of, facing, situated in, or related to the north.
• adj. (of a wind) Blowing from the north; northerly.
• adj. (Britain) Characteristic of the North of England (usually capitalised).
• n. (fishing) The northern pike.
• n. (capitalised) The Northern Line of the London Underground.

occurrence

• n. Actual instance when a situation arises.

occurrent

• adj. Current, actual, occurring.
• n. (now chiefly philosophy) An event, something that occurs.

organisation

• n. British spelling standard spelling of organization.

organised

• adj. Alternative spelling of organized.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of organise.

organization

• n. (uncountable) The quality of being organized.
• n. (uncountable) The way in which something is organized, such as a book or an article.
• n. (countable) A group of people or other legal entities with an explicit purpose and written rules.
• n. (countable) A group of people consciously cooperating.
• n. (baseball) A major league club and all its farm teams.

organized

• adj. Of a person, characterised by efficient organization.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of organize.

pairing

• n. The combination or union of two things.
• v. present participle of pair.

set

• v. (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
• v. (transitive) To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
• v. (transitive) To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
• v. (transitive, dated) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.
• v. (transitive) To determine or settle.
• v. (transitive) To adjust.
• v. (transitive) To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
• v. (transitive) To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
• v. (transitive) To introduce or describe.
• v. (transitive) To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to.
• v. (transitive) To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
• v. (transitive) To prepare (a stage or film set).
• v. (transitive) To fit (someone) up in a situation.
• v. (transitive) To arrange (type).
• v. (transitive) To devise and assign (work) to.
• v. (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
• v. (intransitive) To solidify.
• v. (transitive) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
• v. (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
• v. (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
• v. (obsolete, now followed by "out", as in set out) To begin to move; to go forth.
• v. (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
• v. (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
• v. To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
• v. (hunting, transitive, intransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
• v. (obsolete) To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly; to set out.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To fit music to words.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
• v. To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
• v. To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
• v. To place or fix in a setting.
• v. To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
• v. To extend and bring into position; to spread.
• v. To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
• v. To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
• v. (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
• v. (obsolete) To wager in gambling; to risk.
• v. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
• v. (obsolete) To value; to rate; used with at.
• v. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
• v. (Scotland) To suit; to become.
• n. A punch for setting nails in wood.
• n. A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
• n. Alternative form of sett: a hole made and lived in by a badger.
• n. Alternative form of sett: pattern of threads and yarns.
• n. Alternative form of sett: piece of quarried stone.
• n. (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
• n. The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
• n. (obsolete, rare) That which is staked; a wager; hence, a gambling game.
• n. (engineering) Permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending,…
• n. (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached…
• n. (printing, dated) The width of the body of a type.
• n. A young oyster when first attached.
• n. Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
• n. A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun).
• n. (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
• n. The camber of a curved roofing tile.
• adj. Fixed in position.
• adj. Rigid, solidified.
• adj. Ready, prepared.
• adj. Intent, determined (to do something).
• adj. Prearranged.
• adj. Fixed in one’s opinion.
• adj. (of hair) Fixed in a certain style.
• n. A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
• n. A rudimentary fruit.
• n. The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
• n. (literally and figuratively) General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
• n. A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 1, Noun.).
• n. A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
• n. An object made up of several parts.
• n. (set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order…
• n. (in plural, “sets”, mathematics, informal) Set theory.
• n. A group of people, usually meeting socially.
• n. The scenery for a film or play.
• n. (dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.
• n. (exercise (sport)) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
• n. (tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
• n. (volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
• n. (volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
• n. (music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
• n. (music) A drum kit, a drum set.
• n. (Britain, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
• n. (poker, slang) Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is a on the board…
• v. (Britain, education) To divide a class group in a subject according to ability.

sex

• n. (countable) A category into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive…
• n. (countable) Another category, especially of humans and especially based on sexuality or gender roles.
• n. (countable) The members of such a category, taken collectively.
• n. (uncountable) The distinction and relation between these categories, especially in humans; gender.
• n. (obsolete or literary, uncountable, with "the") Women; the human female sex and those who belong to it.
• n. (uncountable) Sexual activity, usually sexual intercourse unless preceded by a modifier.
• n. (countable, euphemistic or slang) Genitalia: a penis or vagina.
• v. (zoology, transitive) To determine the sex of an animal.
• v. (chiefly US, colloquial, intransitive) To have sex with.
• n. (obsolete) Alternative form of sect.

state

• n. A polity.
• n. A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
• n. High social standing or circumstance.
• n. (mathematics, stochastic processes) An element of the range of the random variables that define a random…
• v. (transitive) To declare to be a fact.
• v. (transitive) To make known.
• adj. (obsolete) stately.

sum

• n. A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation.
• n. (often plural) An arithmetic computation, especially one posed to a student as an exercise (not necessarily…
• n. A quantity of money.
• n. A summary; the principal points or thoughts when viewed together; the amount; the substance; compendium.
• n. A central idea or point.
• n. The utmost degree.
• n. (obsolete) An old English measure of corn equal to the quarter.
• v. (transitive) To add together.
• v. (transitive) To give a summary of.
• n. The basic unit of money in Kyrgyzstan.
• n. The basic unit of money in Uzbekistan.
• pron. (African American Vernacular) Eye dialect spelling of some.

unification

• n. The act of unifying.
• n. The state of being unified.
• n. (mathematical logic, computer science) Given two terms, their join with respect to a specialisation order.

unionised

• v. simple past tense and past participle of unionise.
• adj. Alternative spelling of unionized.
• adj. Alternative spelling of unionized.

unionized

• v. simple past tense and past participle of unionize.
• adj. Organized into a trades union or trades unions.
• adj. (chemistry) Not ionized.

uniting

• v. present participle of unite.
• n. The act by which things are united; the formation of a union.

wedlock

• n. The state of being married; matrimony.
• n. (obsolete) A wife; a married woman.