connect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kə-nĕktʹ
ipa: /kəˈnɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
Forms: form: connects
form: connecting
form: connected
form: connected
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form: glossary
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form: connectest
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form: connecteth
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form: -
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Etymology: From Latin connectere (“fasten together”), from con- (“together”) + nectere (“bind”), which is cognate with English knot and English knit.
Senses: examples: text: I think this piece connects to that piece over there.
synonyms: word: affix
word: join
word: put together
word: unite
word: accouple
word: affix
word: assemble
word: associate
word: attach
word: bewed
word: bind
word: clasp
word: clinch
word: combine
word: conglomerate
word: conglutinate
word: conjoin
word: connect
word: construct
word: couple
word: entwine
word: fay
word: fix
word: graft
word: hitch
word: hook
word: inosculate
word: interlink
word: join
word: joint
word: knit
word: knot
word: link
word: marry
word: piece together
word: piecen
word: pinion
word: put together
word: splice
word: unite
word: wed
word: yoke
glosses: To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.
raw_tags: of an object
examples: text: Both roads have the same name, but they don't connect: they're on opposite sides of the river, and there's no bridge there.
glosses: To join: to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to each other.
raw_tags: of two objects
examples: text: When that roundhouse kick connected with his temple it sent him flying across the room.
glosses: To arrive at an intended target; to land.
raw_tags: of a blow
examples: text: The new railroad will connect the northern part of the state to the southern part.
text: Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.[…]A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to be a link between two objects, thereby attaching them to each other.
raw_tags: of an object
examples: text: I connected the printer to the computer, but I couldn't get it work.
glosses: To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to take one object and attach it to another.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: When the technician connects my house, I'll be able to access the internet.
glosses: To join an electrical or telephone line to a circuit or network.
examples: text: I didn't connect my lost jewelry with the news of an area cat burglar until the police contacted me.
glosses: To associate; to establish a relation between.
examples: text: I'm flying to London where I connect with a flight heading to Hungary.
glosses: To make a travel connection; to switch from one means of transport to another as part of the same trip.
Derived terms: 1-connected
arc-connected
arcwise-connected
connectability
connectable
connectance
connected at the hip
connected component
connected graph
connected pawn
connected space
connectible
connectin
connection
connectitude
connective
connectogram
connectology
connectome
connectomics
connectopathy
connector
connect the dots
connect time
connect up
connexion
disconnect
disconnection
interconnect
intraconnect
misconnect
path-connected
reconnect
reconnection
simply connected
strongly connected
strongly connected component
unconnect
well-connected
Related terms: annex
nexus