Connected
[kə'nektɪd] or [kə'nɛktɪd]
Definition
(adj.) joined or linked together .
(adj.) plugged in; 'first check to see whether the appliance is connected' .
(adj.) wired together to an alarm system; 'all the window alarms are connected' .
Typist: Ted--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Connect
Checker: Patrice
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Joined, united, associated, coupled.[2]. Related, akin, allied.
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Examples
- 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.
- It notes not only that they are connected, but the details of the connection. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I feel that we are born to be connected; and those tears convince me that you feel it too, dear Fanny. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Each condensing surface is connected with earth by an electrical conducting wire. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Closely connected with the vagueness of men's ideas about property was the vagueness of their ideas about currency. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I believe that the strange incidents connected with it will afford a view of nature, which may enlarge your faculties and understanding. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Her memory had an aristocratic bias, and was very treacherous whenever she tried to recall any circumstance connected with those below her in life. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- After Edison had decided this question, Upton made drawings and tables from which the real armatures were wound and connected to the commutator. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Suppose two objects to be presented to me, which are not connected by any kind of relation. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The exchange is connected by private telegraph wires and ticker wires with every important financial center. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I trust that Mrs. Watson has entirely recovered from all the little excitements connected with our adventure of the Sign of Four. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Everything that belongs to her, or is connected with her, is precious to me. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Well, out of our eight, three were selected to attend to all business connected with the expedition. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The carbon disk is represented by the black portion, E, near the diaphragm, A, placed between two platinum plates D and G, which are connected in the battery circuit, as shown by the lines. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Metal tubes T T connected the conducting wires F F to the carbons. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The relay coils are connected by wire to the spring piece, S, and the armature lever is connected to earth. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I infer, glancing at his hands again, in the resumption of some old pursuit connected with the shock? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The two ends of the wire were connected with an electro-magnet fastened to a vertical wooden frame. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- When the key is released the battery is again connected to earth. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It would be doing much good to myself and all connected with me, and no harm to a single one. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- To-day there are in the United States more than 41,000,000 of these lamps, connected to existing central-station circuits in active operation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The manner, in which these two systems, though directly contrary, are connected together, may be explains, as follows. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- And so she went on with a perfectly connected story, which she poured into the ears of her perplexed kinsman. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I bear no malice, no ill-will toward any individual that was connected with it, either as passenger or officer. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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