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Connect   /kənˈɛkt/   Listen
Connect

verb
(past & past part. connected; pres. part. connecting)
1.
Connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces.  Synonyms: link, link up, tie.  "Tie the ropes together" , "Link arms"
2.
Make a logical or causal connection.  Synonyms: associate, colligate, link, link up, relate, tie in.  "Colligate these facts" , "I cannot relate these events at all"
3.
Be or become joined or united or linked.  Synonyms: join, link, link up, unite.  "Our paths joined" , "The travelers linked up again at the airport"
4.
Join by means of communication equipment.
5.
Land on or hit solidly.
6.
Join for the purpose of communication.
7.
Be scheduled so as to provide continuing service, as in transportation.  "The planes don't connect and you will have to wait for four hours"
8.
Establish a rapport or relationship.
9.
Establish communication with someone.  Synonyms: get in touch, touch base.
10.
Plug into an outlet.  Synonyms: plug in, plug into.  "Connect the TV so we can watch the football game tonight"
11.
Hit or play a ball successfully.



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"Connect" Quotes from Famous Books



... history of England by reading small books which connect some memorable event that they can understand, and remember, with the name of each king—such as Tyrrell's arrow-shot with William Rufus, or the wreck of the White Ship with Henry I. But when they begin to grow a little beyond these stories, it becomes difficult to find a history that ...
— Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II • Charlotte Mary Yonge
... social conventions, had drawn us to each other—Octave and Clemence. Here, she was the Baroness de Bergenheim, and I the Vicomte de Gerfaut. I must from necessity enter the ordinary route, begin the romance at the first page, without knowing how to connect the prologue with it. ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... I was ready to tear off a few yards of repose myself, but somehow I couldn't connect. It was quiet, all right—in spots. Fact is, it was so blamed quiet that you could hear every rooster that crowed within half a mile. If a man on the other side of town shut a window you knew ...
— Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford
... consider any great object related to it as an accession, and as belonging to the proprietor of the small one; since the transition is in that case very easy from the small object to the great one, and shoued connect them together in the closest manner. But In fact the case is always found to be otherwise, The empire of Great Britain seems to draw along with it the dominion of the Orkneys, the Hebrides, the isle of Man, and the Isle of Wight; but the authority over those lesser ...
— A Treatise of Human Nature • David Hume
... he means that they connect a number of their igloos together by means of passages.—And do they keep them as clean ...
— Ungava • R.M. Ballantyne


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