Union vs. Onion

Unionnoun

(countable) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.

Unionnoun

(uncountable) The state of being united or joined.

Unionnoun

(countable) 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.

Unionnoun

(countable) A trade union; a workers' union.

Unionnoun

(countable) An association of students at a university for social and/or political purposes; also in some cases a debating body.

Unionnoun

(countable) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.

Unionnoun

The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.

Unionnoun

(countable) The act or state of marriage.

Unionnoun

Sexual intercourse.

Unionnoun

A data structure that can store any of various types of item, but only one at a time.

Unionnoun

A large, high-quality pearl.

Unionnoun

(historical) An affiliation of several parishes for joint support and management of their poor; also the jointly-owned workhouse.

Unionverb

To combine sets using the union operation.

Unionnoun

The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one, or the state of being united or joined; junction; coalition; combination.

Unionnoun

Agreement and conjunction of mind, spirit, will, affections, or the like; harmony; concord.

Unionnoun

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; as, the weavers have formed a union; trades unions have become very numerous; the United States of America are often called the Union.

Unionnoun

A textile fabric composed of two or more materials, as cotton, silk, wool, etc., woven together.

Unionnoun

A large, fine pearl.

Unionnoun

A device emblematic of union, used on a national flag or ensign, sometimes, as in the military standard of Great Britain, covering the whole field; sometimes, as in the flag of the United States, and the English naval and marine flag, occupying the upper inner corner, the rest of the flag being called the fly. Also, a flag having such a device; especially, the flag of Great Britain.

Unionnoun

A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, or the like, as the elastic pipe of a tender connecting it with the feed pipe of a locomotive engine; especially, a pipe fitting for connecting pipes, or pipes and fittings, in such a way as to facilitate disconnection.

Unionnoun

A cask suspended on trunnions, in which fermentation is carried on.

Unionnoun

an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer;

Unionnoun

the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War);

Unionnoun

the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes;

Unionnoun

the state of being joined or united or linked;

Unionnoun

the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce);

Unionnoun

healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones

Unionnoun

a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations;

Unionnoun

a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets;

Unionnoun

the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts;

Unionnoun

a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)

Unionnoun

the act of making or becoming a single unit;

Unionadjective

being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the Civil War;

Unionadjective

of trade unions;

Onionnoun

A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.

Onionnoun

The bulb of such a plant.

Onionnoun

(uncountable) The genus as a whole.

Onionnoun

A ball.

Onionnoun

A person from Bermuda or of Bermudian descent.

Onionnoun

A liliaceous plant of the genus Allium (Allium cepa), having a strong-flavored bulb and long hollow leaves; also, its bulbous root, much used as an article of food. The name is often extended to other species of the genus.

Onionnoun

The flavor of an onion{1}.

Onionnoun

edible bulb of an onion plant

Onionnoun

bulbous plant having hollow leaves cultivated worldwide for its rounded edible bulb

Onionnoun

an aromatic flavorful bulb

Onion

The onion (Allium cepa L., from Latin cepa ), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium. The shallot is a botanical variety of the onion.