Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

union

/ˈjuː.njən/ noun, verb, adjective, proper noun

Forms unions unioning unioned the Union

  1. noun (countable) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
  2. noun (uncountable) The state of being united or joined; a state of unity or harmony.
  3. noun (countable) Something united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league.
  4. noun (countable) A trade union; a workers' union.
  5. noun (countable) An association of students at a university for social and/or political purposes; also in some cases a debating body.
  6. noun (countable) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.
  7. noun (countable, set theory) The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.
  8. noun (countable) The act or state of marriage.
  9. verb (set theory) To combine sets using the union operation.
  10. adjective Belonging to, represented by, or otherwise pertaining to a labour union. “Actors have to be union to get work here.”
  11. adjective (India) federal. “The union government of India”
  12. noun The 0-10-2 locomotive wheel arrangement.
  13. noun The canton of the United States flag: the portion of the flag containing stars on a blue background.
  14. proper noun (US, with determiner, dated, especially 19th century) The United States of America. “threats to secede from the Union”
  15. proper noun (US, with determiner, historical) Those of the United States that did not secede at the time of the Civil War (of the United States of America). “Union troops at Gettysburg”
  16. proper noun (with determiner, historical) The Soviet Union: the proper noun Union is the standard English translation of the proper noun Союз (Sojuz), and All-Union is the standard English translation of всесоюзный (vsesojuznyj). “throughout the Union, but nowhere more so than at the Center [Moscow]”
  17. proper noun A community in Central Elgin municipality, Elgin County, Ontario, Canada.
  18. proper noun A barangay of Ubay, Bohol, Philippines.
  19. proper noun A village on the south cast of the island of Siargao, Surigao del Norte, Philippines.
  20. proper noun A town in Greene County, Alabama.

Synonyms

junction coalition combination unionized labor union trade union trades union brotherhood North coupling mating pairing conjugation sexual union unification marriage matrimony spousal relationship wedlock conglutination sum join uniting jointure Federal

Antonyms

nonunion disunion separation

Etymology

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

(locomotive): Derived from the name of the only U.S. company to use that configuration.

Probably a variant spelling of Onion.

Clipping of Oxford Union.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one, or the state of being united or joined; junction; coalition; combination.
  2. noun Agreement and conjunction of mind, spirit, will, affections, or the like; harmony; concord.

Etymology [F., from L. unio oneness, union, a single large pearl, a kind of onion, fr. unus one. See One, and cf. Onion, Unit.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “union”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

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