Contact vs Union - What's the difference?
contact | union | Synonyms |
The act of touching physically; being in close association.
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The establishment of communication (with).
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A nodule designed to connect a device with something else.
Someone with whom one is in communication.
(label) A contact lens.
(label) A device designed for repetitive connections.
Contact juggling.
(mining) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.
To touch; to come into physical contact with.
To establish communication with something or someone
(countable) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
(uncountable) The state of being united or joined.
(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.
(countable) A trade union; a workers' union.
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, title= (countable) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.
(countable, set theory) The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.
(countable) The act or state of marriage.
(uncountable, archaic, euphemistic) Sexual intercourse.
(countable, computing) A data structure that can store any of various items, but only one at a time.
A large, high-quality pearl.
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As nouns the difference between contact and union
is that contact is the act of touching physically; being in close association while union is the act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.As a verb contact
is to touch; to come into physical contact with.contact
English
Noun
(en noun)George Goodchild
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Derived terms
* body contact * contact hitter * contactable * eye contact * first contact * golden contact * point of contact / POCVerb
(en verb)- The side of the car contacted the pedestrian.
- I am trying to contact my sister.
union
English
Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=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.}}
- 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, andan union in his ear worth an hundred pounds' weight of gold […].