What (who) is Connect - definition
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connect
(connects, connecting, connected)
1.
If something or someone connects one thing to another, or if one thing connects to another, the two things are joined together.
You can connect the machine to your hi-fi...
The traditional method is to enter the exchanges at night and connect the wires...
Two cables connect to each corner of the plate.
...a television camera connected to the radio telescope.
= attach
? disconnect
V-RECIP: V n to n, V pl-n, V to n, V-ed, also pl-n V
2.
If a piece of equipment or a place is connected to a source of power or water, it is joined to that source so that it has power or water.
These appliances should not be connected to power supplies...
Ischia was now connected to the mainland water supply.
VERB: be V-ed to n, V-ed, also V n to n
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The shower is easy to install-it needs only to be connected up to the hot and cold water supply...
They turned the barricade into a potential death trap by connecting it up to the mains.
PHRASAL VERB: be V-ed P to n, V n P to n, also V P n (not pron) to n
3.
If a telephone operator connects you, he or she enables you to speak to another person by telephone.
To call the police, an ambulance or the fire brigade dial 999 and the operator will connect you...
He asked to be connected to the central switchboard.
= put through
VERB: V n, be V-ed to n, also V n to n
4.
If two things or places connect or if something connects them, they are joined and people or things can pass between them.
...the long hallway that connects the rooms...
The fallopian tubes connect the ovaries with the uterus...
His workshop connected with a small building in the garden...
The two rooms have connecting doors.
V-RECIP: V pl-n, V n with n, V with n, V-ing, also pl-n V
5.
If one train or plane, for example, connects with another, it arrives at a time which allows passengers to change to the other one in order to continue their journey.
...a train connecting with a ferry to Ireland...
My connecting plane didn't depart for another six hours.
= link up
V-RECIP: V with/to n, V-ing, also pl-n V
6.
If you connect to a particular plane or train, or if another plane or train connects you to it, you change to that plane or train from another one in order to continue your journey.
...business travellers wanting to connect to a long-haul flight...
That will connect you with time to spare for the seven o'clock Concorde.
VERB: V to n, V n, also V n to n
7.
If you connect a person or thing with something, you realize that there is a link or relationship between them.
I hoped he would not connect me with that now-embarrassing review I'd written seven years earlier...
I wouldn't have connected the two things.
= associate
VERB: V n with/to n, V pl-n
8.
Something that connects a person or thing with something else shows or provides a link or relationship between them.
A search of Brady's house revealed nothing that could connect him with the robberies...
What connects them?
= link
VERB: V n with/to n, V pl-n
connect
¦ verb
1. bring together so as to establish a link.
join together so as to provide access and communication.
put into contact by telephone.
2. associate or relate (something) in some respect: bonuses are connected to the firm's performance.
3. (of a train, bus, etc.) arrive at its destination just before another departs so that passengers can transfer.
4. informal (of a blow) hit the intended target.
Derivatives
connectable adjective
connectedly adverb
connectedness noun
connector noun
Origin
ME: from L. connectere, from con- 'together' + nectere 'bind'.
Connect
·vt To associate (a person or thing, or one's self) with another person, thing, business, or affair.
II. Connect ·vi To join, unite, or cohere; to have a close relation; as, one line of railroad connects with another; one argument connect with another.
Pronunciation examples for Connect
1. connect.
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2. SHIRLEY MANSON: Connect, connect, connection.
The Influence of Technology in the Creative Process _ Garbage _ Talks at Google
3. to connect and connect authentically, person
The Power of Peaceful Resistance _ Levi EagleFeather _ Talks at Google
4. that connect.
Storeis from Indias' Partition _ Anurag Wadehra _ Talks at Google
5. They connect.
Kids First - Five Big Ideas for Transforming Children's Lives _ David Kirp _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of Connect
1. Of course, they connect with those who care for them, but they also connect with the physical world.
2. Five weekly flights currently connect Istanbul a...
3. Ford Connect – super suspension The Ford Connect came in third with a weighted score of 7.5 out of a possible 10.
4. Most wireless routers, for example, allow you to connect up to four LAN cables to connect to wired networks, as well as allowing wireless connections.
5. But in populous China, Yan insisted, cars would connect strangers.