Link vs. Union — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Link and Union
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Link
One of the rings or loops forming a chain.
Union
The act of uniting or the state of being united.
Link
A unit in a connected series of units
Links of sausage.
One link in a molecular chain.
Union
A combination so formed, especially an alliance or confederation of people, parties, or political entities for mutual interest or benefit.
Link
A unit in a transportation or communications system.
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Union
(Mathematics) A set, every member of which is an element of one or another of two or more given sets.
Link
A connecting element; a tie or bond
Grandparents, our link with the past.
Union
Agreement or harmony resulting from the uniting of individuals; concord.
Link
An association; a relationship
The Alumnae Association is my link to the school's present administration.
Union
The state of matrimony; marriage
"The element that was to make possible such a union was trust in each other's love" (Kate Chopin).
Link
A causal, parallel, or reciprocal relationship; a correlation
Researchers have detected a link between smoking and heart disease.
Union
Sexual intercourse.
Link
A cufflink.
Union
A combination of parishes for joint administration of relief for the poor in Great Britain.
Link
A unit of length used in surveying, equal to 0.01 chain, 7.92 inches, or about 20.12 centimeters.
Union
A workhouse maintained by such a union.
Link
A rod or lever transmitting motion in a machine.
Union
A labor union.
Link
(Computers)A graphical item or segment of text in a webpage or other electronic document that, when clicked, causes another webpage or section of the same webpage to be displayed
That newspaper's homepage includes links to numerous government resources. Also called hotlink, hyperlink.
Union
A coupling device for connecting parts, such as pipes or rods.
Link
A torch formerly used for lighting one's way in the streets.
Union
A device on a flag or ensign, occupying the upper inner corner or the entire field, that signifies the union of two or more sovereignties.
Link
To put together physically, as with links
Linked the rings to form a chain.
Union
An organization at a college or university that provides facilities for recreation; a student union.
Link
To connect, relate, or associate
Linked the suspect to the crime.
Union
A building housing such facilities.
Link
To make or have a link to (another webpage or electronic document)
The blog links important news stories from across the web.
Union
Union The United States of America regarded as a national unit, especially during the Civil War.
Link
To make a link in (a webpage or electronic document)
The teacher linked the class website to an online map.
Union
Union Of, relating to, or loyal to the United States of America during the Civil War
A Union soldier.
Link
To be or become joined together physically
The molecules linked to form a polymer.
Union
Of or relating to a labor union or labor union organizing
The union movement.
Union negotiations.
Link
To be or become connected, related, or associated
Their business has linked up with ours.
Union
(countable) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
Link
To make or have a link to a webpage or electronic document
The shocking news story was linked to by many blogs. The article linked to photos of the damage.
Union
(countable) The state of being united or joined; a state of unity or harmony.
Link
To follow a link in a webpage or electronic document
With a click of the mouse, I linked to the museum's website.
Union
(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.
Link
A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
The mayor’s assistant serves as the link to the media.
Union
(countable) A trade union; a workers' union.
Link
One element of a chain or other connected series.
The third link of the silver chain needs to be resoldered.
The weakest link.
Union
(countable) An association of students at a university for social and/or political purposes; also in some cases a debating body.
Link
Abbreviation of hyperlink
The link on the page points to the sports scores.
Union
(countable) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.
Link
(computing) The connection between buses or systems.
A by-N-link is composed of N lanes.
Union
The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.
Link
(mathematics) A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
Union
(countable) The act or state of marriage.
Link
(Sussex) a thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.
Union
Sexual intercourse.
Link
(figurative) an individual person or element in a system
Union
A data structure that can store any of various types of item, but only one at a time.
Link
Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.
Union
A large, high-quality pearl.
Link
A sausage that is not a patty.
Union
(historical) An affiliation of several parishes for joint support and management of their poor; also the jointly-owned workhouse.
Link
(kinematics) Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, such as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.
Union
To combine sets using the union operation.
Link
(engineering) Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (in steam engines) the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.
Union
Belonging to, represented by, or otherwise pertaining to a labour union.
Actors have to be union to get work here.
Link
(surveying) The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in length.
Union
The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one, or the state of being united or joined; junction; coalition; combination.
Link
(chemistry) A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
Union
Agreement and conjunction of mind, spirit, will, affections, or the like; harmony; concord.
Link
(in the plural) The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream.
Union
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.
Link
(broadcasting) An introductory cue.
Union
A textile fabric composed of two or more materials, as cotton, silk, wool, etc., woven together.
Link
(obsolete) A torch, used to light dark streets.
Union
A large, fine pearl.
If they [pearls] be white, great, round, smooth, and weighty . . . our dainties and delicates here at Rome . . . call them unions, as a man would say "singular," and by themselves alone.
In the cup an union shall he throw,Richer than that which four successive kingsIn Denmark's crown have worn.
Link
(transitive) To connect two or more things.
Union
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.
Link
To contain a hyperlink to another page.
My homepage links to my wife's.
Union
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.
Link
To supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.
Haven't you seen his Web site? I'll link you to it.
Union
A cask suspended on trunnions, in which fermentation is carried on.
One kingdom, joy, and union without end.
[Man] is to . . . begetLike of his like, his image multiplied.In unity defective; which requiresCollateral love, and dearest amity.
Link
To post a hyperlink to.
Stop linking those unfunny comics all the time!
Union
An organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer;
You have to join the union in order to get a job
Link
(transitive) To demonstrate a correlation between two things.
Union
The United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War);
He has visited every state in the Union
Lee hoped to detach Maryland from the Union
The North's superior resources turned the scale
Link
(compilation) To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable.
Union
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
Link
To meet with someone.
Union
The state of being joined or united or linked;
There is strength in union
Link
To skip or trip along smartly; to go quickly.
Union
The state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce);
A long and happy marriage
God bless this union
Link
A torch made of tow and pitch, or the like.
Union
Healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones
Link
A single ring or division of a chain.
Union
A political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations;
The Soviet Union
Link
Hence: Anything, whether material or not, which binds together, or connects, separate things; a part of a connected series; a tie; a bond.
The link of brotherhood, by whichOne common Maker bound me to the kind.
And so by double links enchained themselves in lover's life.
Union
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
Link
Anything doubled and closed like a link; as, a link of horsehair.
Union
The occurrence of a uniting of separate parts;
Lightning produced an unusual union of the metals
Link
Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.
Union
A device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)
Link
Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (Steam Engine), the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.
Union
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
Link
A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; - applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
Union
Being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the Civil War;
Union soldiers
Federal forces
A Federal infantryman
Link
Sausages; - because linked together.
Union
Of trade unions;
The union movement
Union negotiations
A union-shop clause in the contract
Link
A hill or ridge, as a sand hill, or a wooded or turfy bank between cultivated fields, etc.
Link
A winding of a river; also, the ground along such a winding; a meander; - usually in pl.
The windings or "links" of the Forth above and below Stirling are extremely tortuous.
Link
Sand hills with the surrounding level or undulating land, such as occur along the seashore, a river bank, etc.
Golf may be played on any park or common, but its original home is the "links" or common land which is found by the seashore, where the short close tuft, the sandy subsoil, and the many natural obstacles in the shape of bents, whins, sand holes, and banks, supply the conditions which are essential to the proper pursuit of the game.
Link
Hence, any such piece of ground where golf is played; a golf course.
Link
To connect or unite with a link or as with a link; to join; to attach; to unite; to couple.
All the tribes and nations that composed it [the Roman Empire] were linked together, not only by the same laws and the same government, but by all the facilities of commodious intercourse, and of frequent communication.
Link
To be connected.
No one generation could link with the other.
Link
The means of connection between things linked in series
Link
A fastener that serves to join or link;
The walls are held together with metal links placed in the wet mortar during construction
Link
The state of being connected;
The connection between church and state is inescapable
Link
A connecting shape
Link
A unit of length equal to 1/100 of a chain
Link
(computing) an instruction that connects one part of a program or an element on a list to another program or list
Link
A channel for communication between groups;
He provided a liaison with the guerrillas
Link
A two-way radio communication system (usually microwave); part of a more extensive telecommunication network
Link
An interconnecting circuit between two or more locations for the purpose of transmitting and receiving data
Link
Make a logical or causal connection;
I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind
Colligate these facts
I cannot relate these events at all
Link
Connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces;
Can you connect the two loudspeakers?
Tie the ropes together
Link arms
Link
Be or become joined or united or linked;
The two streets connect to become a highway
Our paths joined
The travelers linked up again at the airport
Link
Link with or as with a yoke;
Yoke the oxen together
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