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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unify
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
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▪ They and their party are more constant and more unified than they sometimes like to think they are.
▪ In a leading part, you have a more unifying role.
▪ Of course, the overall group representation within West Vancouver as a whole was considerably more unified in the face of growth proposals.
■ NOUN
country
▪ It takes a unified country to mount a consensus foreign policy.
party
▪ A unified Democratic party versus an ideologically split Republican party.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A unifying influence Of course, while the money comes in handy, brands can have another important function for regions.
▪ Albert Einstein spent the last 50 years of his life unsuccessfully trying to unify the theories of electromagnetism and gravity.
▪ But when change was in focus, the issue became the unifying and dividing forces which applied to the entire cosmos.
▪ Incongruities prohibit constructing a unified picture of anything we could call Orphism.
▪ Music serves to identify and unify members of the group, as well as to entertain.
▪ The dream of the unified global village has given way to the reality of global fragmentation and diversity.
▪ They and their party are more constant and more unified than they sometimes like to think they are.
▪ When played like this, it seems a unified emotional journey.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unify

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.

A comprehensive or unifying act of the judging faculty.
--De Quincey.

Perception is thus a unifying act.
--Sir W. Hamilton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unify

c.1500, "to make into one," from Middle French unifier (14c.) or directly from Late Latin unificare "make one," from Latin uni- "one" (see uni-) + root of facere "to make" (see factitious). Related: Unified; unifying. Unified (field) theory in physics is recorded from 1935.

Wiktionary
unify

vb. 1 (context transitive English) Cause to become one; make into a unit; consolidate; merge; combine. 2 (context intransitive English) Become one.

WordNet
unify
  1. v. become one; "Germany unified officially in 1990"; "Will the two Koreas unify?" [syn: unite, merge] [ant: disunify]

  2. to bring or combine together or with something else; "resourcefully he mingled music and dance" [syn: mix, mingle, commix, amalgamate]

  3. act in concert or unite in a common purpose or belief [syn: unite] [ant: divide]

  4. join or combine; "We merged our resources" [syn: unite, merge]

  5. [also: unified]

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "unify".

Royalist critics on the Right charged that his mediating, unifying role as National Guard commander was hopelessly undercut by his advocacy of natural rights and his tolerance of popular movements that could lead only to social disintegration.

There was no unifying principle to align them in space as the magnetic domains align in a piece of lodestone.

But she had met the horse first, and that had turned out to be a wonderfully unifying thing, because of the ambience of their shared thoughts.

Our knowledge needs to be integrated and unified, rather than split into little atomistic books.

When Becker landed in Chicago, he immediately summoned a cab and spent the next half hour taking it out to the Inn By The Lake, a sprawling, half-century-old Lake Forest hostelry that had been added onto at least three times and somewhere along the way had given up all hope of ever appearing to be a unified structure.

At the same time we know how great is our debt to the combining and unifying command and high strategic direction of General Eisenhower.

UniFy deliberately devised Katharsis just to distract the population from their intentions?

She had responded to the atmosphere of, if not mutual support, then mutual resistance, a unifying scorn for the preconceptions and mawkish sympathies of the outside world, and learnt to joke loudly and laugh falsely at a great many things that by most standards were not very funny.

Wearing the double crown of unified Egypt, Neith eventually commanded the reverence of all Egyptians from her temple city of Sais.

The same is true of any one man: the various directions of his energy stand in an organically unified, harmonious relationship to one another.

But now, through the insights of the second superstring revolution, physicists have realized that M-theory is the unifying pachyderm of the five string theories.

The result is that, in the absence of a unified ego consciousness, psychoid processes from the id have increasingly taken control of behavior.

The multitude must be unified or segmented into different unities: this is how the multitude has to be corrupted.

Republic remains as a unifying cant, a test of orthodoxy of as little practical significance there as the communism of Jesus and communion with Christ in Christendom, while beneath this creed a small oligarchy which has attained power by its profession does its obstinate best, much hampered by the suspicion and hostility of the Western financiers and politicians, to carry on a series of interesting and varyingly successful experiments in the socialization of economic life.

The figureheads who came to fill the role of the Great Kings were created as spokespeople, icons, and mouthpieces to imply that the Hansa functioned as a unified collection of powers represented in a single leader.