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Connective   /kənˈɛktɪv/   Listen
Connective

noun
1.
An uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences.  Synonyms: conjunction, conjunctive, continuative.
2.
An instrumentality that connects.  Synonyms: connecter, connection, connector, connexion.  "He didn't have the right connector between the amplifier and the speakers"



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"Connective" Quotes from Famous Books



... the corresponding type of the gifted and eccentric writer in question. Very eloquent he is, I agree at once, and true views he takes of Art in the abstract, true and elevating. It is in the application of connective logic that he breaks away from one so violently.... We are expecting our books by an early vessel, and are about to be very busy, building up a rococo bookcase of carved angels and demons. Also we shall get up curtains, and get down bedroom carpets, and finish the remainder of our furnishing ...
— The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) • Frederic G. Kenyon

... ayacachtli, the rattle (see ante, page 24); and icahuaca, to sing (of birds); to the theme of this verb is added the connective syllable ti, and the verb mani, which, in such connection, indicates that the action of the former verb is expended over a large surface, broadly and widely (see Olmos, Gram. de la Langue Nahuatl, p. 155, where, however, the connective ...
— Ancient Nahuatl Poetry - Brinton's Library of Aboriginal American Literature Number VII. • Daniel G. Brinton

... to the judgment of the many, it would have been necessary to apologize for its literal exactness. Had I been anxious to gratify false taste with respect to composition, I should doubtless have attended less to the precise meaning of the original, have omitted almost all connective Particles, have divided long periods into a number of short ones, and branched out the strong and deep river of Plato's language into smooth-gliding, shallow, and feeble streams; but as the present work was composed with the hope indeed of benefitting ...
— Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato • Thomas Taylor

... gained its vogue immediately in France, Great Britain, and overseas besides being translated, with more or less despatch, into other European tongues. M. Jules Verne must indeed have gained enough by it and its two connective tales to have acquired an island of his own. The present book was translated into English by the late W.H.G. Kingston; and is printed in Everyman's Library by special exclusive arrangement with Messrs. Sampson Low, ...
— The Secret of the Island • W.H.G. Kingston (translation from Jules Verne)



Words linked to "Connective" :   telephone line, attachment, jumper, backbone, instrumentation, slip ring, coordinating conjunction, instrumentality, subordinating conjunction, yoke, patch, function word, hookup, hitch, earth, connectivity, phone line, bond, temporary hookup, closed-class word, subordinate conjunction, subscriber line, telephone circuit, connect, ground, coupling, junction, line



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