Union vs Stew - What's the difference?
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(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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(label) A cooking-dish used for boiling; a cauldron.
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*:And when he came to the chamber there as this lady was the dores of yron vnlocked and vnbolted / And so syr launcelot wente in to the chambre that was as hote as ony stewe / And there syr launcelot toke the fayrest lady by the hand / that euer he sawe / and she was naked as a nedel
(label) A brothel.
*1681 , (John Dryden), (Absalom and Achitophel)
*:And rak'd, for converts, even the court and stews .
*1835 , (Thomas Babington Macaulay), Sir James Mackintosh
*:Because he was chaste, the precinct of his temple is filled with licensed stews .
*1977 , Gãmini Salgãdo, The Elizabethan Underworld , Folio Society, 2006, p.37:
*:Although whores were permitted to sit at the door of the stew , they could not solicit in any way nor ‘chide or throw stones’ at passers-by.
(label) A prostitute.
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*1870 , Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood , Wordsworth Classics, 1998, p.367:
*:I noticed then that there was nothing to drink on the table but brandy, and nothing to eat but salted herrings, and a hot, sickly, highly peppered stew .
(label) A pool in which fish are kept in preparation for eating.
An artificial bed of oysters.
(label) A state of agitated excitement, worry, and/or confusion.
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(transitive, or, intransitive, or, ergative) To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering.
To brew (tea) for too long, so that the flavour becomes too strong.
(figuratively) To suffer under uncomfortably hot conditions.
(figuratively) To be in a state of elevated anxiety or anger.
A steward or stewardess on an airplane.
* 1975 November 3, , volume 8, number 44, page 8 [http://google.com/books?id=OekCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA8&dq=stew]:
* 1991 , , 1992 edition, ISBN 0425184226, page 480 [http://google.com/books?id=kP84eUjxv-MC&pg=PA480&dq=stew]:
* 1992 January, Skip Hollandsworth, "Doing the Hustle", , ISSN 0148-7736, volume 20, issue 1, page 52 [http://google.com/books?id=dysEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA52&dq=stew]:
Union is a related term of stew.
As a noun union
is union (action and result).As a proper noun stew is
a diminutive of the male given name stewart .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 […].
Synonyms
* junction, coalition, combinationDerived terms
* banjo union * enterprise union * trades union, trade union * union card * unionised, unionized * European Union * Soviet UnionSee also
* intersection * (Webster 1913)Anagrams
* ----stew
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) estuve (modern French .Noun
(en-noun)Synonyms
* (food) casserole, (British) hotpotCoordinate terms
* casserole * cassoulet * goulash * ragoutDerived terms
* in a stew * stewpotVerb
(en verb)- I'm going to stew some meat for the casserole.
- The meat is stewing nicely.
Synonyms
* (suffer under hot conditions) bake, boil, sweat, swelter * (be in a state of elevated anxiety) brood, fret, sweat, worryEtymology 2
Abbreviation of steward or stewardess.Noun
(en noun)- And then, working as a stew for American Airlines, Mo met another older man.
- "We want to know what he's going to be saying on his airplane."
- "I don't have the legs to dress up as a stew , doc. Besides, I never learned to do the tea ceremony, either."
- Dallas was also becoming known as a "stew zoo" because so many flight attendants were relocating there to work for Southwest, Braniff, and American Airlines.