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单词 unite
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Definition of unite in English:

unite

verb juːˈnʌɪtjuˈnaɪt
  • 1Come or bring together for a common purpose or action.

    no object he called on the party to unite
    with object they are united by their love of cars
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The whole community united in support and some awe of the young Frenchman.
    • I also aim to unite people together in trying to secure a living allowance for all students.
    • We are determined and our whole nation is united very strongly against terrorism.
    • The whole community unites in extending congratulations to this very popular couple.
    • The president said at the opening of the conference that whatever policy was passed, the whole union should unite around it.
    • The free event is aimed at uniting communities and to re-build confidence and hope in the city's future.
    • Three hugely significant events were being commemorated and the whole community united in many ways to celebrate them.
    • I think it also showed New Yorkers that the whole United States united behind New York.
    • In recent centuries the world has become a globalized whole, united by the capitalist economic system.
    • Holding such an historic event here would be seen as a gesture to unite the whole country, one which would bring the monarchy back to the people - all the people.
    • The whole of the conference united against the government's plan for foundation hospitals.
    • It is absolutely wonderful, like the rebirth of the church, and the whole community united for a champagne celebration at Christmas.
    • These, they saw, provided the basis for setting up organisations that would unite the whole working class, first of all in Turin, and than across Italy.
    • News of her pregnancy unites them again after the marriage seemed to be over, but a later tragedy shatters his confidence, and his world begins to unravel.
    • By the time order was restored, it was clear that the whole family were united in boredom.
    • The question is, how are they to unite the whole people around a programme of land reform instituted only in Caroni?
    • It also split rather than united the whole population, making the families withdraw into their ethnic groups.
    • I could never understand why religions tended to divide rather than unite and here was an orientation to religion that was uniting the whole world.
    • The whole world must unite to fight terror, no doubt about it, in all forms.
    • In fact, unless I miss my guess, five of the seven are united in whole or part by a single topic: tort reform.
    Synonyms
    unify, join, link, connect, combine, amalgamate, fuse, integrate, weld, bond, stick together, bring together, knit together
    join together, join forces, combine, associate, band together, club together, ally, cooperate, collaborate, work together, act together, pull together, get together, team up, go into partnership, work side by side, pool resources
    1. 1.1 Come or bring together to form a whole.
      no object the two Germanys officially united
      with object his work unites theory and practice
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Many theoreticians and practitioners adopt the biopsychosocial perspective, as it unites methods and theory more clearly than the concept of ‘eclectic’.
      • Each facet is like a puzzle piece - gather them together, unite them and the whole picture begins to emerge.
      • As such, it is the critical aspect of making art, the linchpin that unites theory with practice and conjoins the intellect and the hand.
      • Kublai Khan united the whole of China in 1279 and the Yuan dynasty came to power.
      • The new creature is the fruit of a spiritual marriage uniting the activity of the artist to the passivity of a given matter.
      • He unites them in marriage in a mass ceremony in a stadium.
      • The actress added how mutual cooperation made them unite into one whole being and stop thinking about who is a better partner.
      • For some, bourgeois marriage, by uniting procreation, sexuality, love, and a legal contract, functions as a moral legitimation of the political and social subordination of women.
      • The Nobel laureate Richard Feynman once made a tentative suggestion that a theory uniting quantum mechanics and relativity might lead to an objective state reduction, and others have taken up and built on this idea.
      • Clearly, reading, as well as revolution, is the intertextual glue that unites these three novels.
      • The Gorgonzola united the whole dish without making it too overpoweringly ‘blue’.
      • His father, Vincenzio Galilei, was a musician whose originality and polemic talents fomented a revolution uniting practice and theory in music much as Galileo was to unite them in science.
      • After all, it's the only federation in the world that unites a whole continent.
      • With the marriage both kingdoms were united, but there were some who disliked the marriage.
      • Another theory, supersymmetry, unites the building blocks - the quarks and the leptons - with the force carriers.
      • There is nothing to suggest that in the spring of 1860 Cavour envisaged uniting the whole peninsula of Italy.
      • Well, by adding this essay, the problem and the answer are united in a comprehensive whole.
      • What Newton did to simplify the planetary motions must now be done to unite in one whole the various isolated theories of mathematical physics.
      • In them the cycle of birth, life and death is united into a whole.
      • Hence he now tries to show how united the whole Torah is and attempts to relate it to life.
      Synonyms
      unify, join, link, connect, combine, amalgamate, fuse, integrate, weld, bond, stick together, bring together, knit together
      join together, join forces, combine, associate, band together, club together, ally, cooperate, collaborate, work together, act together, pull together, get together, team up, go into partnership, work side by side, pool resources
    2. 1.2archaic with object Join in marriage.
      Lady Midlothian united herself to a man of bad character
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Like many rulers, she used marriage as a means to create and cement alliances, uniting her daughter Henrietta Maria and Charles I of England, for example.
      • The marriage official returned the license to the clerk after certifying that he had performed a marriage ceremony uniting the couple named in the license.

Derivatives

  • unitive

  • adjective ˈjuːnɪtɪv
    • Ironically Pope Paul's affirmation of the unitive and procreative goals of marriage set the scene for Pope John Paul II's theology of the body which speaks so powerfully to young adults today.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • There was no dichotomy between a social and a spiritual gospel to these men who held a unitive concept of truth.
      • In the 1930's, when devout convert philosopher Dietrich von Hildrebrand wrote a book extolling the unitive power of sex in marriage, it was widely regarded as dangerous and potentially heretical.
      • The Church identifies a unitive and a reproductive purpose for sex - it unites two people, shows their love for one another, and it also makes babies.
      • We undertake this not in homage to convention or tradition, but in service to the principles of a unitive and harmonious existence.
  • unitively

  • adverb ˈjuːnɪtɪvli

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin unit- 'joined together', from the verb unire, from unus 'one'.

Rhymes

affright, alight, alright, aright, bedight, bight, bite, blight, bright, byte, cite, dight, Dwight, excite, fight, flight, fright, goodnight, height, ignite, impolite, indict, indite, invite, kite, knight, light, lite, might, mite, night, nite, outfight, outright, plight, polite, quite, right, rite, sight, site, skintight, skite, sleight, slight, smite, Snow-white, spite, sprite, tight, tonight, trite, twite, underwrite, uptight, white, wight, wright, write
 
 

Definition of unite in US English:

unite

verbjuˈnaɪtyo͞oˈnīt
  • 1Come or bring together for a common purpose or action.

    no object he called on the party to unite
    with object they are united by their love of cars
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Holding such an historic event here would be seen as a gesture to unite the whole country, one which would bring the monarchy back to the people - all the people.
    • We are determined and our whole nation is united very strongly against terrorism.
    • The whole community unites in extending congratulations to this very popular couple.
    • I think it also showed New Yorkers that the whole United States united behind New York.
    • The whole world must unite to fight terror, no doubt about it, in all forms.
    • The whole community united in support and some awe of the young Frenchman.
    • The question is, how are they to unite the whole people around a programme of land reform instituted only in Caroni?
    • News of her pregnancy unites them again after the marriage seemed to be over, but a later tragedy shatters his confidence, and his world begins to unravel.
    • Three hugely significant events were being commemorated and the whole community united in many ways to celebrate them.
    • The free event is aimed at uniting communities and to re-build confidence and hope in the city's future.
    • These, they saw, provided the basis for setting up organisations that would unite the whole working class, first of all in Turin, and than across Italy.
    • By the time order was restored, it was clear that the whole family were united in boredom.
    • I also aim to unite people together in trying to secure a living allowance for all students.
    • In fact, unless I miss my guess, five of the seven are united in whole or part by a single topic: tort reform.
    • It also split rather than united the whole population, making the families withdraw into their ethnic groups.
    • The president said at the opening of the conference that whatever policy was passed, the whole union should unite around it.
    • The whole of the conference united against the government's plan for foundation hospitals.
    • In recent centuries the world has become a globalized whole, united by the capitalist economic system.
    • It is absolutely wonderful, like the rebirth of the church, and the whole community united for a champagne celebration at Christmas.
    • I could never understand why religions tended to divide rather than unite and here was an orientation to religion that was uniting the whole world.
    Synonyms
    unify, join, link, connect, combine, amalgamate, fuse, integrate, weld, bond, stick together, bring together, knit together
    join together, join forces, combine, associate, band together, club together, ally, cooperate, collaborate, work together, act together, pull together, get together, team up, go into partnership, work side by side, pool resources
    1. 1.1 Come or bring together to form a unit or whole, especially in a political context.
      no object the two Germanys officially united
      his work unites theory and practice
      with object he aimed to unite Italy and Sicily under his imperial crown
      Example sentencesExamples
      • As such, it is the critical aspect of making art, the linchpin that unites theory with practice and conjoins the intellect and the hand.
      • His father, Vincenzio Galilei, was a musician whose originality and polemic talents fomented a revolution uniting practice and theory in music much as Galileo was to unite them in science.
      • Each facet is like a puzzle piece - gather them together, unite them and the whole picture begins to emerge.
      • What Newton did to simplify the planetary motions must now be done to unite in one whole the various isolated theories of mathematical physics.
      • Hence he now tries to show how united the whole Torah is and attempts to relate it to life.
      • Another theory, supersymmetry, unites the building blocks - the quarks and the leptons - with the force carriers.
      • In them the cycle of birth, life and death is united into a whole.
      • After all, it's the only federation in the world that unites a whole continent.
      • The Nobel laureate Richard Feynman once made a tentative suggestion that a theory uniting quantum mechanics and relativity might lead to an objective state reduction, and others have taken up and built on this idea.
      • Well, by adding this essay, the problem and the answer are united in a comprehensive whole.
      • The new creature is the fruit of a spiritual marriage uniting the activity of the artist to the passivity of a given matter.
      • There is nothing to suggest that in the spring of 1860 Cavour envisaged uniting the whole peninsula of Italy.
      • Many theoreticians and practitioners adopt the biopsychosocial perspective, as it unites methods and theory more clearly than the concept of ‘eclectic’.
      • The Gorgonzola united the whole dish without making it too overpoweringly ‘blue’.
      • Kublai Khan united the whole of China in 1279 and the Yuan dynasty came to power.
      • With the marriage both kingdoms were united, but there were some who disliked the marriage.
      • For some, bourgeois marriage, by uniting procreation, sexuality, love, and a legal contract, functions as a moral legitimation of the political and social subordination of women.
      • He unites them in marriage in a mass ceremony in a stadium.
      • The actress added how mutual cooperation made them unite into one whole being and stop thinking about who is a better partner.
      • Clearly, reading, as well as revolution, is the intertextual glue that unites these three novels.
      Synonyms
      unify, join, link, connect, combine, amalgamate, fuse, integrate, weld, bond, stick together, bring together, knit together
      join together, join forces, combine, associate, band together, club together, ally, cooperate, collaborate, work together, act together, pull together, get together, team up, go into partnership, work side by side, pool resources
    2. 1.2archaic with object Join in marriage.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The marriage official returned the license to the clerk after certifying that he had performed a marriage ceremony uniting the couple named in the license.
      • Like many rulers, she used marriage as a means to create and cement alliances, uniting her daughter Henrietta Maria and Charles I of England, for example.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin unit- ‘joined together’, from the verb unire, from unus ‘one’.

 
 
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