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Webster 1913 Edition
Connect
Con-nect′
(kŏn-nĕkt′)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Connected
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Connecting
.] 1.
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.
He fills, he bounds,
connects
and equals all. Pope.
A man must see the connection of each intermediate idea with those that it
connects
before he can use it in a syllogism. Locke.
2.
To associate (a person or thing, or one’s self) with another person, thing, business, or affair.
Connecting rod
(Mach.)
, a rod or bar joined to, and connecting, two or more moving parts; esp. a rod connecting a crank wrist with a beam, crosshead, piston rod, or piston, as in a steam engine.
Con-nect′
,Verb.
I.
To join, unite, or cohere; to have a close relation;
as, one line of railroad
. connects
with another; one argument connects
with anotherWebster 1828 Edition
Connect
CONNECT
,Verb.
T.
1.
To knit or link together; to tie or fasten together, as by something intervening, or by weaving, winding or twining. Hence, 2.
To join or unite; to conjoin, in almost any manner, either by junction, by any intervening means, or by order and relation. We connect letters and words in a sentence; we connect ideas in the mind; we connect arguments in a discourse. The strait of Gibraltar connects the Mediterranean with the Atlantic. A treaty connects two nations. The interests of agriculture are connected with those of commerce. Families are connected by marriage or by friendship.CONNECT
,Verb.
I.
Definition 2024
connect
connect
English
Verb
connect (third-person singular simple present connects, present participle connecting, simple past and past participle connected)
- (intransitive, of an object) To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.
- I think this piece connects to that piece over there.
- (intransitive, of two objects) To join: to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to each other.
- 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.
- (transitive, of an object) 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.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 2, in The Celebrity:
- 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.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 7, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- 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.
- The new railroad will connect the northern part of the state to the southern part.
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- (transitive, of a person) To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to take one object and attach it to another.
- I connected the printer to the computer, but I couldn't get it work.
- To join an electrical or telephone line to a circuit or network.
- When the technician connects my house, I'll be able to access the internet.
- To associate.
- I didn't connect my lost jewelry with the news of an area cat burglar until the police contacted me.
- To make a travel connection; to switch from one means of transport to another as part of the same trip.
- I'm flying to London where I connect with a flight heading to Hungary.
Antonyms
Related terms
- connection
- connector
- connexion
- connectability
Translations
to join two or more pieces
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to join an electrical or telephone line
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associate
make a travel connection