connect
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Latin nectō
Latin cōnectō
Latin connectō
English connect
From Latin connectere (“fasten together”), from con- (“together”) + nectere (“bind”), which is cognate with English knot and English knit.
Base: necto
Affixes: con-
Inflected forms:
form: connects
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: connecting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: connected
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: connected
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: connect
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: connect
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: connected
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: connect
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: connectest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: connected
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: connectedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: connects
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: connecteth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: connected
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: connect
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: connected
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: connect
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: connected
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: connect
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: connecting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: connected
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: connects
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I think this piece connects to that piece over there.
gloss: To join: to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to each other.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To arrive at an intended target; to land.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: When that roundhouse kick connected with his temple it sent him flying across the room.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The new railroad will connect the northern part of the state to the southern part.
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.
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.
gloss: To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to take one object and attach it to another.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I connected the printer to the computer, but I couldn't get it work.
gloss: To join an electrical or telephone line to a circuit or network.
pos: verb
examples: When the technician connects my house, I'll be able to access the internet.
Later on, when he had loosened up considerably, he told an amusing story that he said took place during a Sino-Soviet border flare-up in 1969. "We had a hot line between the Soviet Union and ourselves then," he said, "but it had already become cold because the Kremlin never used it. At the time of the Chen Pao border incident, however, Kosygin picked it up and called us. When our operator answered, he said, 'This is Premier Kosygin. I would like to speak to Chairman Mao.' The operator, completely on his own, said, 'You are a revisionist, and therefore I will not connect you.' So Kosygin said, 'Well, if you will not try to reach the Chairman, will you please connect me with Prime Minister Chou.' But the operator gave the same unauthorized reply and broke the connection."
gloss: To associate; to establish a relation between.
pos: verb
examples: I didn't connect my lost jewelry with the news of an area cat burglar until the police contacted me.
gloss: To make a travel connection; to switch from one means of transport to another as part of the same trip.
pos: verb
examples: I'm flying to London where I connect with a flight heading to Hungary.
gloss: Clipping of connection.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: My connects in Chicago are telling me all kinds of things. Nobody knows anything for sure except that Griffith is missing and money is missing.
The affidavit says the source wore a recording device during one conversation with the drug dealer, who said the officer "was doing this for big money and does runs for several connects in Bmore. Not just weed, but heroin as well, a few times coke."
I called all my connects, but they were completely dry too.
gloss: Clipping of connection.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Even though I did not have a lot of connects in Silicon Valley, I was not concerned because I knew that Silicon Valley was not going to solve this problem.
Now that you look the part, hopefully, you have some connects because nothing looks worse than paying to get into a club!
My agent has a lot of connects so he's always in talks with people.
We wanted to try something new, that's when we started a lot of our influencing on social media. It was a lot of connects but we realized when we came home, we had more resources. More of our close friends.
Antonyms: disconnect
Related words: annex
nexus
Derived words: 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
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: رَبَطَ
roman: rabaṭa
lang: Armenian
word: միավորել
roman: miavorel
lang: Armenian
word: միանալ
roman: mianal
lang: Armenian
word: միացնել
roman: miacʻnel
lang: Armenian
word: կապել
roman: kapel
lang: Azerbaijani
word: bağlamaq
lang: Azerbaijani
word: qovuşdurmaq
lang: Azerbaijani
word: birləşdirmək
lang: Belarusian
word: злуча́ць
roman: zlučácʹ
lang: Bulgarian
word: съединя́вам
roman: sǎedinjávam
lang: Catalan
word: connectar
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 連接 /连接
roman: liánjiē
lang: Czech
word: spojit
lang: Danish
word: forbinde
lang: Danish
word: tilslutte
lang: Dutch
word: verbinden
lang: Esperanto
word: konekti
lang: Finnish
word: yhdistää
lang: French
word: accoupler
lang: French
word: connecter
lang: Galician
word: conectar
lang: Georgian
word: დაკავშირება
roman: daḳavšireba
lang: Georgian
word: შეკავშირება
roman: šeḳavšireba
lang: German
word: verbinden
lang: Gothic
word: 𐌲𐌰𐌲𐌰𐍄𐌹𐌻𐍉𐌽
roman: gagatilōn
lang: Greek
word: συνδέω
roman: syndéo
lang: Ancient Greek
word: συνάπτω
roman: sunáptō
lang: Hebrew
word: חיבר
roman: khibér
lang: Hungarian
word: összekapcsol
lang: Hungarian
word: kapcsol
lang: Hungarian
word: csatlakoztat
lang: Ido
word: konektar
lang: Old Irish
word: ad·comla
lang: Italian
word: connettere
lang: Italian
word: connettersi
lang: Japanese
word: 繋げる
roman: tsunageru
lang: Khmer
word: ភ្ជាប់
roman: pcoap
lang: Korean
word: 잇다
roman: itda
lang: Korean
word: 연결하다
roman: yeon'gyeolhada
lang: Latin
word: nectō
lang: Latin
word: cōpulō
lang: Macedonian
word: поврзува
roman: povrzuva
lang: Macedonian
word: спојува
roman: spojuva
lang: Macedonian
word: сврзува
roman: svrzuva
lang: Māori
word: tūhoto
lang: Māori
word: tūhono
lang: Khiamniungan Naga
word: já
lang: Polish
word: łączyć
lang: Polish
word: połączyć
lang: Portuguese
word: conectar
lang: Romanian
word: lega
lang: Romanian
word: îmbina
lang: Romanian
word: conecta
lang: Romanian
word: conexa
lang: Russian
word: свя́зывать
roman: svjázyvatʹ
lang: Russian
word: связа́ть
roman: svjazátʹ
lang: Russian
word: соединя́ть
roman: sojedinjátʹ
lang: Russian
word: соедини́ть
roman: sojedinítʹ
lang: Russian
word: подключа́ть
roman: podključátʹ
lang: Russian
word: подключи́ть
roman: podključítʹ
lang: Spanish
word: conectar
lang: Spanish
word: empalmar
lang: Tajik
word: қӯш кардан
roman: qüš kardan
lang: Thai
word: เชื่อม
roman: chʉ̂ʉam
lang: Thai
word: ต่อ
roman: dtɔ̀ɔ
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: قوشمق
roman: koşmak
lang: Ukrainian
word: з'є́днувати
roman: zʺjédnuvaty
lang: Vietnamese
word: nối