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Connected   /kənˈɛktəd/  /kənˈɛktɪd/   Listen
verb
Connect  v. t.  (past & past part. connected; pres. part. 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." "A man must see the connection of each intermediate idea with those that it connects before he can use it in a syllogism."
2.
To associate (a person or thing, or one's self) with another person, thing, business, or affair.
3.
To establish a communication link; used with with; as, his telephone didn't answer, so I connected with him by email.
4.
To electronically or mechanically link (a device) to another device, or to link a device to a common communication line; used with with; as, the installer connected our telephones on Monday; I connected my VCR to the TV set by myself; the plumber connected a shut-off valve to my gas line.
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.


Connect  v. i.  To join, unite, or cohere; to have a close relation; as, one line of railroad connects with another; one argument connects with another.


adjective
connected  adj.  
1.
P. p. of connect. (Narrower terms: abutting, adjacent, adjoining, bordering(prenominal), conterminous, coterminous, contiguous) (Narrower terms: adjunctive) (Narrower terms: affined) (Narrower terms: attached) (Narrower terms: contiguous, in contact) (Narrower terms: coupled, joined, linked) (Narrower terms: cursive, flowing) (Narrower terms: siamese) (Narrower terms: socially connected, well-connected). Antonym: unconnected.
2.
Being joined in close association.
Synonyms: affiliated, attached.
3.
Connected by a conductor so as to allow the flow of electric signals. (Narrower terms: wired (vs. wireless)) WordNet 1.5)
4.
(Music) Legato. Antonym: staccato.
Synonyms: flowing, smooth.
5.
Associated with or accompanying.
Synonyms: associated.
6.
(Computers) Stored in, controlled by, or in direct communication with a central computer. (Narrower terms: on-line (vs. off-line), online, on line(predicate))
Synonyms: machine-accessible.
7.
Switched on. (Narrower terms: on-line (vs. off-line), online, on line(predicate))
Synonyms: ready, on.
8.
Having some relation.
Synonyms: related.





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"Connected" Quotes from Famous Books



... becoming a probationer, I came to reside in this district, and, not long after, the preacher who officiated in the preaching-station here died. The people connected with it wished me to become his successor, which, after some difficulties on their part had been surmounted, I became. I had other views at the time which were promising and important; but as there had been untoward disturbances in ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various
... and to represent in pencil, not only objects, but even his sensations. Thus he would depict the sounds of an orchestra in the form of smoke like spherical blurs, a whistle in the form of a spiral thread. . . . To his mind sound was closely connected with form and colour, so that when he painted letters he invariably painted the letter L yellow, M red, ...
— The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... foreyard was swung round again and the Golden Rod turned her bowsprit for the west. For hours a glimpse could be caught of the boat, dwindling away on the wave-tops, until at last it vanished into the haze, and with it vanished the very last link which connected them with the great world which they were leaving ...
— The Refugees • Arthur Conan Doyle
... we boast, I am sorry to charge this chief ornament with an evil which admits no cure, that of not ranging with its own coemetery, or the adjacent buildings: out of seven streets, with which it is connected, it lines with none.—Like Deritend chapel, of which I have already complained, from a strong attachment to a point of religion, or of the compass, it appears twisted out of its place. We may be delighted with a human figure, complete ...
— An History of Birmingham (1783) • William Hutton
... from the undertaker connected with Mr. Wentworth's chapel that the clergyman would not be back until evening, and she told the former to tell their pastor all that had occurred, and to ask him to keep the circumstances of Mr. Jocelyn's death as quiet ...
— Without a Home • E. P. Roe


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