Pastiche vs Union - What's the difference?
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A work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist.
A musical medley, typically quoting other works.
An incongruous mixture; a hodgepodge.
(uncountable) A postmodern playwriting technique that fuses a variety of styles, genres, and story lines to create a new form.
To create or compose in a mixture of styles.
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, passage=That the genetic code of the platypus proved to be as bizarrely pastiched as its anatomy enhanced the popular appeal of the report, published in the journal Nature. }}
(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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Pastiche is a related term of union.
As a verb pastiche
is .As a noun union is
union (action and result).pastiche
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(wikipedia pastiche)Noun
(en noun)Verb
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(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 […].