Dictionary Definition
connect
Verb
1 connect, fasten, or put together two or more
pieces; "Can you connect the two loudspeakers?"; "Tie the ropes
together"; "Link arms" [syn: link, tie, link up] [ant:
disconnect]
2 make a logical or causal connection; "I cannot
connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind"; "colligate these
facts"; "I cannot relate these events at all" [syn: associate, tie in, relate, link, colligate, link up] [ant:
decouple]
3 be or become joined or united or linked; "The
two streets connect to become a highway"; "Our paths joined"; "The
travelers linked up again at the airport" [syn: link, link up, join, unite]
4 join by means of communication equipment; "The
telephone company finally put in lines to connect the towns in this
area"
5 land on or hit solidly; "The brick connected on
her head, knocking her out"
6 join for the purpose of communication;
"Operator, could you connect me to the Raffles in Singapore?"
7 be scheduled so as to provide continuing
service, as in transportation; "The local train does not connect
with the Amtrak train"; "The planes don't connect and you will have
to wait for four hours"
8 establish a rapport or relationship; "The
President of this university really connects with the
faculty"
9 establish communication with someone; "did you
finally connect with your long-lost cousin?" [syn: get in
touch, touch
base]
10 plug into an outlet; "Please plug in the
toaster!"; "Connect the TV so we can watch the football game
tonight" [syn: plug in] [ant:
unplug]
11 hit or play a ball successfully; "The batter
connected for a home run"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛkt
Verb
- To join two or more
pieces.
- After reading the directions, I saw that the piece labeled "A" connected to the piece labeled "B" by inserting the pegs into the holes.
- 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 to 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.
Translations
to join two or more pieces
- Dutch: verbinden
- Finnish: yhdistää
- German: verbinden
- Greek: συνδέω
- Hebrew: לחבר (le'khaber)
- Hungarian: összekapcsol
- Japanese: 繋げる (tsunageru)
- Portuguese: conectar
- Spanish: conectar
to join an electrical or telephone line
associate
make a travel connection
Related terms
Extensive Definition
Connection, Connected, Connectivity, or Connexion
may refer to:
- Connected (Stereo MC's album) is a 1992 album by the Stereo MC's
- "Connected" (Stereo MCs song) is a 1992 song by the Stereo MC's
- Connected (Foreign Exchange album) is an album by The Foreign Exchange
- "Connected" (Ayumi Hamasaki song), a song by Ayumi Hamasaki.
- "Connected" (RBD song), a song by RBD.
- "Connection" (Elastica song), a song released by the britpop group Elastica
- "Connection (Rolling Stones song)", a song by the Rolling Stones.
- Connection (dance), the primary means of communication between the lead and follow
- "Connection", a song by Avail from their 1992 album Satiate
- Connect Music Festival, which is held in Inverary, Scotland
- Connected category, a category in which, for every two objects, there is at least one morphism connecting them
- Connected space, a topological space which cannot be written as the disjoint union of two or more nonempty open spaces
- Connected sum
- Connection (mathematics), a way of specifying a derivative of a vector field along another vector field on a manifold
- Levi-Civita connection, used in general relativity
- Connectedness, in mathematics, a property of a topological space, graph or category (with different meanings)
- Connectivity (computer science)
- Connectivity (graph theory)
- The effect of a fastener
- Connections (game)
- Database Connection
- Electrical connection, allows the flow of electrons
- Interconnectivity, in science, the redundant interaction of many small parts to form a greater whole.
- Landscape connectivity
- Telecommunication circuit, the complete path between two terminals
- Connections (The Entertainment Technology Magazine)
- [[Connectivity-A Ferdism flooring term to explain how one floor transitions to another, See also green mango diet; and how long toenails cause gout]]*Sportsnet Connected, a sports news program that airs in Canada
- The Yogurt Connection, a drug ring
- Connect Yorkshire, a not-for-profit business network.
Connections may refer to:
- Connections (journal), a military/defense periodical
- Connections (TV series), James Burke's documentary television series
- Connections (game show), a British game show of the 1980s
- Connections Academy, a free public school that students attend from home
Connexion or Connexxion may refer to:
- Connexion (religion), a circuit of prayer groups who would employ travelling ministers
- Connexion by Boeing
- Connexxion, the largest public transport bus company in the Netherlands
- PhyQuest Connexion, a risk-reduction system
Connect may refer to:
- Connect (trade union) A Union for technology workers in the UK
- Sony Connect, an online music store
- Microsoft Connect
Connected may refer to:
- Connected, 2007 comedy televisions series
See also
connect in Chuvash: Çыхăну
connect in Danish: Forbindelse
connect in German: Anschluss
connect in French: Connexion
connect in Hungarian: Kapcsolat
connect in Dutch: Aansluiting
connect in Russian: Связь
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abut,
abut on, account for, accouple, accredit with,
accrete to, accumulate, acknowledge, add, adhere, adjoin, affect, affiliate, affix, agglutinate, ally, amalgamate, amass, anchor, answer to, appertain to,
apply, apply to, articulate, ascribe to,
assemble, assign to,
assimilate, associate, attach, attach to, attribute to,
band, be blooded, be
consistent, be contiguous, be continuous, be in contact, be
successful, bear on, bear upon, belong to, bind, blame, blame for, blame on,
blend, bolt, bond, border, border on, bracket, braze, bridge, bridge over, bring home
to, buckle, butt, catch on, catenate, cement, chain, charge on, charge to, clap
together, click, clinch, coalesce, cohere, collect, combine, come off, come
together, communicate, compound, comprise, concatenate, concern, confess, conglobulate, conjoin, conjugate, connect up, connect
with, consolidate,
continuate, continue, converge, copulate, correlate, correspond to,
couple, cover, credit with, deal with,
draw a parallel, embody,
embrace, encompass, equate, farewell, fasten, fasten upon, father upon,
fit, fix, fix on, fix upon, flux, follow, form a series, fuse, gather, glue, go, go great guns, go off, go over,
go over big, go to town, graduate, grow together, hang
on, hang together, have connection with, hold together, hook, identify, impute to, include, incorporate, integrate, interblend, intercommunicate,
interest, interfuse, interrelate, involve, join, knit, knot, lash, lay to, lay together,
league, liaise with, lie
by, link, link up, link
with, lock, lump together,
maintain continuity, make a hit, make one, marry, marshal, mass, meet, meet with success, meld, melt into one, merge, mix, mobilize, moor, nail, neighbor, pair, parallel, parallelize, pass, pertain to, piece together,
pin, pin on, pinpoint, place upon, point to,
prevail, prosper, put together, qualify, reembody, refer to, regard, relate, relate to, relativize, respect, rivet, roll into one, run on,
saddle on, saddle with, screw, seal, secure, set down to, settle upon,
sew, shade into, solder, solidify, span, splice, stand by, staple, stick, stick together, stitch, strap, string, string together, succeed, syncretize, syndicate, synthesize, tack, take, take in, tape, thread, tie, tie in, tie in with, touch, touch upon, treat of,
unify, unite, verge upon, wed, weld, work well, work wonders,
yoke