UNITING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does uniting mean? 

• UNITING (noun)
  The noun UNITING has 2 senses:

1. the combination of two or more commercial companies

2. the act of making or becoming a single unit

  Familiarity information: UNITING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNITING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The combination of two or more commercial companies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

amalgamation; merger; uniting

Hypernyms ("uniting" is a kind of...):

consolidation; integration (the act of combining into an integral whole)

Derivation:

unite (join or combine)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of making or becoming a single unit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

conjugation; jointure; unification; union; uniting

Context example:

he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays

Hypernyms ("uniting" is a kind of...):

combination; combining; compounding (the act of combining things to form a new whole)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "uniting"):

coalescence; coalescency; coalition; concretion; conglutination (the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts)

reunification; reunion (the act of coming together again)

tribalisation; tribalization (the act of making tribal; unification on a tribal basis)

umbrella (having the function of uniting a group of similar things)

Derivation:

unite (become one)

 Context examples 

Instead of pushing his fortune in the line marked out for the heir of the house of Elliot, he had purchased independence by uniting himself to a rich woman of inferior birth.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

But every circumstance that could embitter such an evil seemed uniting to heighten the misery of Marianne in a final separation from Willoughby—in an immediate and irreconcilable rupture with him.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The synovial joints uniting the base of each arytenoid cartilage to the lamina of the cricoid cartilage.

(Cricoarytenoid Joint, NCI Thesaurus)

They entered Oxford, but she could take only a hasty glimpse of Edmund's college as they passed along, and made no stop anywhere till they reached Newbury, where a comfortable meal, uniting dinner and supper, wound up the enjoyments and fatigues of the day.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Darcy, as well as Elizabeth, really loved them; and they were both ever sensible of the warmest gratitude towards the persons who, by bringing her into Derbyshire, had been the means of uniting them.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I trust I rendered tolerably intelligible my appointment for the morning of this day week, at the house of public entertainment at Canterbury, where Mrs. Micawber and myself had once the honour of uniting our voices to yours, in the well-known strain of the Immortal exciseman nurtured beyond the Tweed.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The time of the two parties uniting in the Octagon Room being correctly adjusted, Catherine was then left to the luxury of a raised, restless, and frightened imagination over the pages of Udolpho, lost from all worldly concerns of dressing and dinner, incapable of soothing Mrs. Allen's fears on the delay of an expected dressmaker, and having only one minute in sixty to bestow even on the reflection of her own felicity, in being already engaged for the evening.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

She likewise set up housekeeping in the sideboard, and managed a microscopic cooking stove with a skill that brought tears of pride to Hannah's eyes, while Demi learned his letters with his grandfather, who invented a new mode of teaching the alphabet by forming letters with his arms and legs, thus uniting gymnastics for head and heels.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He considered his disposition as of the sort which must suffer heavily, uniting very strong feelings with quiet, serious, and retiring manners, and a decided taste for reading, and sedentary pursuits.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

She saw them in an instant in their parsonage-house; saw in Lucy, the active, contriving manager, uniting at once a desire of smart appearance with the utmost frugality, and ashamed to be suspected of half her economical practices;—pursuing her own interest in every thought, courting the favour of Colonel Brandon, of Mrs. Jennings, and of every wealthy friend.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)