civil union vs connection

civil union

noun
  • A legal union similar to marriage, established to allow same-sex couples (and, in some jurisdictions, opposite-sex couples) rights similar to those married couples have. 

connection

noun
  • The description for a Methodist denomination as a whole, as opposed to its constituent churches, circuits, districts and conferences. 

  • A feeling of understanding and ease of communication between two or more people. 

  • sexual intercourse 

  • A kinship relationship between people. 

  • An individual who is related to oneself, through either family or business. 

  • A drug dealer. 

  • Coherence; lack of disjointedness 

  • The point at which two or more things are connected. 

  • A transfer from one transportation vehicle to another in scheduled transportation service 

  • A set of sets that contains the empty set, all one-element sets for any element that is included in any of the sets, and the union of any group of sets that are elements where the intersections of those sets is non-empty. 

  • An established communications or transportation link. 

  • The act of connecting. 

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