unify
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
unify
v 1: become one; "Germany unified officially in 1990"; "the
cells merge" [syn: {unify}, {unite}, {merge}] [ant: {break
apart}, {disunify}]
2: to bring or combine together or with something else;
"resourcefully he mingled music and dance" [syn: {mix},
{mingle}, {commix}, {unify}, {amalgamate}]
3: bring together for a common purpose or action or ideology or
in a shared situation; "the Democratic Patry platform united
several splinter groups" [syn: {unite}, {unify}]
4: act in concert or unite in a common purpose or belief [syn:
{unite}, {unify}] [ant: {carve up}, {dissever}, {divide},
{separate}, {split}, {split up}]
5: join or combine; "We merged our resources" [syn: {unite},
{unify}, {merge}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Unify \U"ni*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Unified}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Unifying}.] [Uni- + -fy: cf. F. unifier.]
To cause to be one; to make into a unit; to unite; to view as
one.
[1913 Webster]
A comprehensive or unifying act of the judging faculty.
--De Quincey.
[1913 Webster]
Perception is thus a unifying act. --Sir W.
Hamilton.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
94 Moby Thesaurus words for "unify":
accouple, accumulate, add, agglutinate, amalgamate, amass, arrange,
articulate, assemble, assimilate, associate, band, bind, blend,
bond, bracket, bridge, bridge over, bring together, cement, chain,
clap together, coalesce, collect, combine, come together, compact,
compound, comprise, concatenate, concentrate, confederate,
conglobulate, conjoin, conjugate, connect, consolidate, copulate,
couple, cover, embody, embrace, encompass, flux, fuse, gather,
glue, identify, include, incorporate, integrate, interblend,
interfuse, join, knot, lay together, league, link, lump together,
make one, marry, marshal, mass, meld, melt into one, merge, mix,
mobilize, orchestrate, order, organize, pair, piece together,
put together, reduce to unity, reembody, roll into one, shade into,
solder, solidify, span, splice, stick together, symphonize,
syncretize, syndicate, synthesize, systematize, take in, tape, tie,
unite, weld, yoke
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