Connect
[kə'nekt] or [kə'nɛkt]
Definition
(verb.) join for the purpose of communication; 'Operator, could you connect me to the Raffles in Singapore?'.
(verb.) land on or hit solidly; 'The brick connected on her head, knocking her out'.
(verb.) connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces; 'Can you connect the two loudspeakers?'; 'Tie the ropes together'; 'Link arms'.
(verb.) hit or play a ball successfully; 'The batter connected for a home run'.
(verb.) establish a rapport or relationship; 'The President of this university really connects with the faculty'.
(verb.) be or become joined or united or linked; 'The two streets connect to become a highway'; 'Our paths joined'; 'The travelers linked up again at the airport'.
(verb.) be scheduled so as to provide continuing service, as in transportation; 'The local train does not connect with the Amtrak train'; 'The planes don't connect and you will have to wait for four hours'.
(verb.) join by means of communication equipment; 'The telephone company finally put in lines to connect the towns in this area'.
Typed by Duane--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To join, or fasten together, as by something intervening; to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to establish a bond or relation between.
(v. t.) To associate (a person or thing, or one's self) with another person, thing, business, or affair.
(v. i.) To join, unite, or cohere; to have a close relation; as, one line of railroad connects with another; one argument connect with another.
Edited by Davy
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Join, unite, combine, conjoin, associate, couple, link together.
v. n. Join, unite, cohere, be joined, have relation.
Typed by Debora
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See UNITE]
Checked by Basil
Definition
v.t. to tie or fasten together: to establish a relation between: to associate.—p.adj. Connect′ed joined: united.—adv. Connect′edly in a connected manner.—ns. Connect′er -or one who or that which connects.—adj. Connect′ible capable of being connected.—ns. Connec′tion Connex′ion act of connecting: that which connects: a body or society held together by a bond: coherence: intercourse: context: relation: intimacy: a relative.—adjs. Connect′ive Connex′ive (obs.) binding together.—n. a word that connects sentences and words.—adv. Connect′ively.—Connective tissue one of the four sets of the commonest classification of animal tissues including a great variety—e.g. bone cartilage ligaments and enswathing membranes.
Edited by Elise
Examples
- It was expected in case of necessity to connect these forts by rifle-pits. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There seem to be two great aims in the philosophy of Plato,--first, to realize abstractions; secondly, to connect them. Plato. The Republic.
- Each plate section has a rod to connect it with its proper terminal. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It is of assistance to connect philosophy with thinking in its distinction from knowledge. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He fortified his new position, and our trenches were then extended from the left of our main line to connect with his new one. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- What is called inner is simply that which does not connect with others--which is not capable of free and full communication. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He could not fail to connect my sudden return with his crime, and to be terribly alarmed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The rods to be welded are placed in clamps C C′, C being connected with one terminal of the secondary conductor S, and the movable clamp C′ with the other. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- His mother wished to interest him in political concerns, to get him into parliament, or to see him connected with some of the great men of the day. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- A generator containing a strong solution of ammonia is connected by a pipe to an empty receiver immersed in cold water. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- At the bottom of the penstock is placed a turbine wheel fixed on a shaft, and to which shaft is connected an electric generator or other power machine. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The paddles were placed in the middle of the boat, near the stern; and there was a double rudder, connected together by rods which were moved by a winch at the head of the vessel. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- From this quality it is easily conceived why it should be connected with the sense of beauty. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- They were two solitary sufferers, or connected only by Fanny's consciousness. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- This statement needs to be rendered more specific by connecting it with the materials of school instruction, the studies which make up the curriculum. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- There's where the ball-room's to be, with a gallery connecting it: billiard-room and so on above. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The noise was released, the little locomotive with her clanking steel connecting-rod emerged on the highroad, clanking sharply. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The telephone receiver was held on the head with a spring, the flexible connecting wire being attached to the lap board, thus leaving the operator with both hands free. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A large number of baths can be run by this apparatus by connecting them with a bath fed by it. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Why, Esther, said he, breaking into a smile, our visitor and you are the two last persons on earth I should have thought of connecting together! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The science which pretends to investigate and explain those connecting principles, is what is properly called Moral Philosophy. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- This is generally done by causing the piston-rod to work between guides, and a jointed arm connects it with the crank. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The other binding post of the commutator 3 extends to one terminal of an isolated primary coil 4, and the other terminal of this coil connects with the dynamo. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- One of the most important and yet seemingly simple parts of an electric iron is the switch plug which connects the electric light socket with the iron. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The word interest suggests, etymologically, what is between,--that which connects two things otherwise distant. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- They forget that material is humanized in the degree in which it connects with the common interests of men as men. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- On the east side the slope is much more gradual, and a good wagon road, zigzagging up it, connects the town of Chattanooga with the summit. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- They are sixty-five feet high and support a sort of porch or roof, which connects them with the roof of the building. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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