anything indispensable; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained"
not capable of being precisely or readily described; not easily put into words; "an indefinable feeling of terror"; "an abstract concept that seems indefinable"
defying expression or description; "indefinable yearnings"; "indescribable beauty"; "ineffable ecstasy"; "inexpressible anguish"; "unspeakable happiness"; "unutterable contempt"; "a thing of untellable splendor"
the act of making or becoming a single unit; "the union of opposing factions"; "he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays"
a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)
the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts; "lightning produced an unusual union of the metals"
a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets; "let C be the union of the sets A and B"
an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a job"
a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations; "the Soviet Union"
the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War); "he has visited every state in the Union"; "Lee hoped to detach Maryland from the Union"; "the North's superior resources turned the scale"
healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones
the state of being joined or united or linked; "there is strength in union"
being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War; "Union soldiers"; "Federal forces"; "a Federal infantryman"
of trade unions; "the union movement"; "union negotiations"; "a union-shop clause in the contract"
a common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta)
limited in size or scope; "a small business"; "a newspaper with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket-size country"
inferior in number or size or amount; "a minor share of the profits"; "Ursa Minor"
lesser in scope or effect; "had minor differences"; "a minor disturbance"
not of legal age; "minor children"
of a scale or mode; "the minor keys"; "in B flat minor"
of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization
of lesser importance or stature or rank; "a minor poet"; "had a minor part in the play"; "a minor official"; "many of these hardy adventurers were minor noblemen"; "minor back roads"
of lesser seriousness or danger; "suffered only minor injuries"; "some minor flooding"; "a minor tropical disturbance"