Connect

Definition: Connect

Connect

Verb

1. Connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces; "Can you connect the two loudspeakers?" "Tie the ropes together"; "Link arms".

2. Make a logical or causal connection; "I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind".

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".

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?".

10. : plug into an outlet, as of electrical appliances; "Please plug in the toaster!"; "Connect the TV so we can watch the football game tonight".

11. : hit or play a ball successfully; "The batter connected for a home run".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "connect" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Computing

Mechanical Engineering

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Connect

Connection

Verb: bridge over, span; connect; hang.

Junction

Verb: join, unite; conjoin, connect; associate; put together, lay together, clap together, hang together, lump together, hold together, piece together, tack together, fix together, bind up together together; embody, reembody; roll into one.

Relation

Bring into relation with, bring to bear upon; connect, associate, draw a parallel; link.

Crosswords: Connect

All you do, is let your imagination connect them together (The Mighty; writing credit: Charles Leavitt. Based on the novel 'Freak the Mighty' by Rodman Philbrick.)

They're roads they connect you with other places (The League of Gentlemen; writing credit: Jeremy Dyson; Mark Gatiss)

Connect four (Big Wolf on Campus; writing credit: Masanao Akahoshi; Kei'ichi Hasegawa)

I'll connect all the computers in the world (The Fairly OddParents; writing credit: Philippe Setbon)

Girl when we connect the dots we hit the spots (Down Ass Bitch; performing artist: Ja Rule)

You think that we connect (Spiderwebs; performing artist: No Doubt)

And she cruise to the crews like connect da dots (Thong Song; performing artist: SISQO)

And ya cruise to the crews like connect da dots (Thong Song; performing artist: SISQO)

And I knew that me and you was gon' connect some how (Daydreamin'; performing artist: Tatyana Ali)

Connect with English (1997)

Press One to Connect (1991)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Connect Your Amiga!: A Guide to the Internet, Lans, Bbss and Online Services (reference)

• Opening to Channel: How to Connect With Your Guide (reference)

• Secrets of the Baby Whisperer: How to Calm, Connect, and Communicate with Your Baby (reference)

• Power Yoga: Connect to the Core with Astanga Yoga (reference)

• Choosing Lovers: Patterns of Romance: How You Select Partners in Intimacy, the Ways You Connect, and Why You Break Apart (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Ahp Connect (reference)

• Classroom Connect Newsletter (reference)

• Connect (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Ballykissangel: Volume 1 - Trying to Connect You, The Things We Do For Love (reference)

• Hoagland's Mars 2:Terrestrial Connect (reference)

• UFO Diaries:Cydonia the Mars Connect (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Connect (reference)

• Shortcut to Connect (reference)

• Tha Bomb Connect [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• CANON 7808A001 Connect Cable (reference)

• Ez Connect Wireless Cardbus Adapter 802.11A (reference)

• Berlitz Communicate & Connect English (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Gardena 36004-12 Quick Connect Starter Set (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

[Using the telephone to connect to the mainframe]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Sailor tightens an oil refueling coupling on board, circa 1919. The original caption reads: "Coaling ship holds no terrors for the gobs on the New Mexico as on our latest oil burning types of super dreadnaught all that is necessary is to connect the hose and turn on the valve.". Credit: NAVY.

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The following rivers are declared international: the Elbe (Labe) from its confluence with the Vltava (Moldau), and the Vltava (Moldau) from Prague; the Oder (Odra) from its confluence with the Oppa; the Niemen (Russstrom-Memel-Niemen) from Grodno; the Danube from Ulm; and all navigable parts of these river systems which naturally provide more than one State with access to the sea, with or without transshipment from one vessel to another; together with lateral canals and channels constructed either to duplicate or to improve naturally navigable sections of the specified river systems, or to connect two naturally navigable sections of the same river. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The legs connect to the body at the pelvis. (references)

Recent data connect triglyceride levels with alterations of the coagulation system. (references)

In addition, networks of nerve fibers have been found to connect directly to the lymphoid organs. (references)

Business

TOPAZ allows member banks to quickly and easily connect to the system. (references)

Eventually, all of them will need to connect with their suppliers and with their clients, providing on-line customer support. (references)

Corridor III will connect German border (Nurenberg) through Cheb, Plzen, Praha, Ceska Trebova, Prerov, Ostrava with Polish border or Slovak border. (references)

Civil Liberties

Kenya

All ISP's are required to use the communications parastatal to connect to the Internet. (references)

Economic History

Chile

Two railroads connect Chile to Bolivia; one of these is privately owned. (references)

Kazakhstan

Regular flights connect Kazakhstan with Europe and some Asian countries. (references)

Political Economy

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

Licensed cable companies are faced with unlicensed cable operators and satellite owners who connect neighborhoods to private satellites for a fee. (references)

Travel

Austria

Direct flights connect Vienna to several U.S. cities. (references)

Colombia

Frequent domestic flights connect principal cities within Colombia. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "connect": connect in series ♦ CONNECT message ♦ connect smth. to earth ♦ connect to the earth ♦ connect up ♦ connect when free ♦ connect with ♦ high Speed Connect ♦ hotline Connect. Additional references.

Beginning with "connect": connect-time.

Ending with "connect": re-connect.

Afrikaans

verbind (combine, join), bind (bind, join, tie, tie up). (various references)

Albanian

përqas (compare, liken), lidhem (associate, attach, bind, cohere, communicate, correlate, interconnexion, link, relate, tie), lidh (articulate, associate, bend, bind, buckle, bundle, colligate, concatenate, couple, do up, dress, enfetter, fasten, glue, hitch, hook up, interconnect, join, joint, lace, ligate, link, moor, regard, relate, respect, solder, splice, string, switch on, tie, tie down, truss, unite), ia dal mbarë (arrive), bashkoj (add together, ally, amalgamate, band together, close up, combine, compound, conglomerate, conjoin, conjugate, consolidate, couple, fuse, fuze, glue, hook up, inosculate, integrate, interlock, join, joint, knit, link, merge, piece, piece together, pool, solder, splice, unify, unite, weld), arrij qëllimit. (various references)

Arabic 

‏وصل (arrive, attain, befall, butt, check, come, conduct, convey, hook up, joining, joint, ligature, link, make, mark, plumb, reach, receive, result, roll in, show up, steer, touch, voucher), ‏عشق (dovetail, engage, fall for, fall in love, fall in love with, falling in love, lose one's heart, love, passion), ‏ضرب (batter, battery, beat, beat off, belabour, biff, buffet, chastise, curry, description, drub, drubbing, fib, flap, flapping, form, galvanize, genre, go getter, grain, hit, hitting, impact, jabbing, kidney, kind, lace, lace into smb., lam, larrup, let out, lock out, manner, multiplication, multiply, order, overtake, paddle, paste, pasting, patter, poke, pommel, pound, pummel, slash, slosh, sock, sort, stamp, strike, stripe, tan, tanning, thrash, thrashing, thresh, variety, wallop, whip), ‏إتصل (approach, communicate, contact, join, pertain, reach, relate, respect), ‏إرتبط (associate, link, tie up), ‏ربط (attach, attachment, bind, couple, faster, hitch, interface, involve, join, knit, knitting, lash, lash down, ligature, link, moor, relate, rope, secure, set, slur, strap, swaddle, tether, tying, unite). (various references)

Bulgarian 

улучвам (get, grass, hit, hit the right nail on the head), свързвам се (band, get on to, get through, piece on), асоциирам (associate, couple), имам връзка (pertain). (various references)

Chinese 

連結 (join, link), 连接 (Connected, Connecting, connection, Connexion, linked, Linking, Ushered, Ushering), 繫 (to tie), 縶 (tie up), 紹 (to introduce), 交接 (join). (various references)

Czech

zapojit (bring in, hook up, plug in, switch on, turn in), spojovat (concatenate, knit, ply, splice), spojit (bond, combine, conjoin, join, joint, link, marry, merge, partner, piece together, scarf, unite), připojit (add, affix, annex, append, attach, hook up, link, plug in, subjoin). (various references)

Danish

forbinde (connect up, plug in), binde (bind, join, tie, tie up). (various references)

Dutch

verbinden (agglutinate, bind, combine, connect up, join, plug in, tie, tie up), aan elkaar vastmaken (join). (various references)

Esperanto

ligi (bind, join, tie, tie up), kunligi (join), konekti (connect up, plug in), interligi (join). (various references)

Faeroese

knýta saman (join), binda saman (connect up, join, plug in), binda at (join), binda (bind, braid, bridle, check, join, knit, plait, restrain, tie, tie up, twine, wreathe). (various references)

Farsi 

پیوستن (Adhere, Adjoin, Affiliate, Affix, Ally, Annex, Associate, Attach, Cement, Cleave, Cling, Couple, Join, Meet, Sort, Weld), متصل کردن (Adjoin, Apply, Joggle, Join, Link), مربوطکردن , وصل کردن . (various references)

Finnish

kytkeä (chain up, connect up, couple, plug in, switch, tie put on the lead, turn on). (various references)

French

relier, raccorder, réunir (congregate, corral), connecter (connect up), allier. (various references)

Frisian

gearbine (join), ferbine (bind, combine, connect up, join, plug in, tie, tie up). (various references)

German

verbinden (affiliate, ally, associate, bandage, bandaging, bind, bind up, chaine, combine, communicate, compound, concatenate, conjoin, connecting, contact, couple, dress, interconnect, intertwine, join, join on, join up, joint, link, mate, merge, put through, report, splice, splicing, synthesize, tie, tie up, to affiliate, to agglutinate, to ally, to bandage, to chain, to combine, to compound, to concatenate, to conjoin, to contact, to couple, to interconnect, to splice, unite), verknüpfen (associate, bind up, combine, concatenate, integrate, intertwine, join, knit, knitted, knot, link, tie, to combine, to concatenate), anschließen (add, affiliate, attach, communicate, connect up, fasten, hook up, hook-up, install, lay on, lock, moor, padlock, plug in, report, tie, tie on). (various references)

Greek 

συνδέω (ally, associate, attach, bond, brace, clip, conjoin, hook up, interlock, join, knot, leash, link, put through, span, splice, syndicate). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשיך (ascribe, attribute, belong), לקשור (bind, bond, hitch, knit, plot, relate, tether, tie, truss), לקשר (couple, link, slur, tie), לאחוז (catch, fasten, get hold of, grasp, grip, hold, port, seize), לחבר (add, associate, bind, join, link, piece, piece together, tie). (various references)

Hungarian

összekapcsol (associate, associated, butt, clip, concatenate, conjoin, conjugate, couple, interconnect, join, join up, joint, link, put together, relate, splice, staple, to abut, to associate, to bracket, to clasp, to conjugate, to couple, to interconnect, to interlock, to link, to relate, to splice, to staple, to unite), összeköt (associated, band, belt, bond, brace, colligate, join, join up, joint, link, to add, to aggregate, to ally, to articulate, to band, to colligate, to combine, to conjugate, to frap, to interconnect, to join up, to knot, to link, to rack), összehoz (bring closer, bring together, draw together, drive together, to make up). (various references)

Indonesian

mengkaitkan (peg to), menghubungkan (consoin, consugate, join, mesh), mempersekutukan. (various references)

Irish

ceangail (connect up, plug in, tie), cónaisc (connect up, plug in). (various references)

Italian

legare (alloy, bind, get on well, go well, hitch, join, lash, link, tether, tie, tie up, unite, wire). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

コップの中の嵐 (clicking, cobalt, cobalt blue, cobalt green, cognac, cohabitation, Connecticut, connection, connectionism, connectionist, connectionist-model, connector, connotation, cottage, cottage cheese, drumming, Fujiyama-shaped volcano, laboriously, oven, pull, steadily, storm in a teacup, unflaggingly, untiringly). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

コネクト . (various references)

Korean 

연결하십시�". (various references)

Malay

mengikat (bind, join, tie, tie up), ikat (bind, join, tie, tie up). (various references)

Manx

kiangley (anchoring, anchoring building, article, article to trade, attach, band, bandage, bandaging, belay, bend, bind, bind down, binding, bond, bow knot, bundle, compress, condition, condition terms, constipate, constrain, dress, dressing, envoy, envoy of poem, fasten down, fastening, influence, involvement, juncture, link, lock, lock in, locking, make fast, nexus, obligation, pin, pinion, relationship, retain, retention, secure, shackle, stipulation, tether, tie, tie down, tie on, tie up, tying, vinculum), cur ry-cheilley (assemblage, assemble, associate, clump, combine, compile, connotation, consolidate, consolidation, construct, evolve, incorporate, keep together, reconcile, relate, sum, teamwork). (various references)

Papiamen

konektá (connect up, plug in). (various references)

Pig Latin

onnectcay.(various references)

Polish

związać (join), wiązać (bind, join, knot, tie, tie up), łączyć (bind, join, tie, tie up). (various references)

Portuguese

ligar (band, bind, binding, bond, call, catenate, colligate, connect up, couple, gear, incorporate, indenture, inosculate, interlink, interlock, interweave, join, joint, knit, ligature, link, mingle, plug, plug in, set, splice, switch, switch on, tie, tie up, turn on, unite, wed, yoke). (various references)

Romanian

conexa (interlock), uni (agree, amalgamate, bind, combine, conjoin, couple, focus, join, knit, knot, link, mate, merge, put together, unite, Wed), se uni (ally, associate, band together, coalesce, combine, commingle, conjoin, conjugate, inosculate, join, join hands, unite, weld), se lega (bind, bind oneself, interlink, knit, link, moor, pick at), racorda, lega (associate, attach, band, bend, bequeath, bind, bind up, brace, charm, coagulate, conjoin, cord, couple, encircle, express, fasten, fetter, hitch, insert, interlink, interlock, join, joint, knit, knot, link, mate, pack, relate, shackle, sheave, start, tackle, tether, tie, unite), face legãturã, asocia (associate, colligate, couple, relate), ambreia (come into gear, couple, engage), înmãnunchea (combine, pack), îmbina (arrange, blend, combine, conjoin, entwine, fasten, feather, frame, interfuse, interweave, joint, lap, match, merge, mix, piece, put together, tie, unite). (various references)

Russian 

соединять (amalgamate, associate, band, band together, clutch, coalesce, combine, compound, conjoin, couple, incorporate, inosculate, interlock, join, joint, knit, link, merge, mix, piece together, reunite, span, splice, unite, yoke together). (various references)

Scottish

ceangail (bind, fasten, join, tie, tie up), fuaigh (knit, sew, stitch). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vezati (associate, attach, band, bind, confine, couple, knot, lace, lash, link, moor, tie), spojiti (aggregate, bring together, combine, couple, fuse, hook up, join, joint, knit, link, lump, merge, pair, piece, piece together, pin together, ply, rabbet, slur, splice, tap), spajati (amalgamate, clamp, join, merge, synthesize), priključiti (hook up), povezati (band together, bind, coordinate, interconnect, link, tie up), dovoditi u vezu. (various references)

Spanish

conectar (lay on, plug in, put in, tap, turn on). (various references)

Sranan

tay (bind, join, tie, tie up). (various references)

Swazi

ku-hlanganîsa (to connect). (various references)

Swedish

ansluta (affiliate, affiliation, combine, connect up, join, plug in, unite, wire), koppla (couple, hook, leash, pander, put through, switch). (various references)

Turkish

bağlamak (affiliate, assign, attach, attribute, band, bandage, belay, bend, bind, bond, brace, braid, clasp, colligate, concatenate, conjoin, copulate, cord, couple, do up, engage, enthral, enthrall, fasten, fasten up, fix, fixate, grapple, guy, hitch, hook on, hook up, infix, interconnect, interlink, interlock, inthral, join, knit, knit together, knit up, knot, lace, lace up, lash, lash down, leash, ligature, link, link up, lock, lock up, mediatize, oblige, put through, rivet, rope, settle, string, subordinate, switch to, tether, tie, tie down, tie up, truss, unite, Wed). (various references)

Turkmen 

seplemek (join, weld), sepiюmek (join), зitmek (bend, tie together), baglamak (join). (various references)

Ukrainian

установлювати родинні зв'язки, сполучатися (blend, communicate, conjoin, conjugate, couple), сполучати (associate, compound, yoke), з'�"днуватися (agglutinate, articulate, coalesce, come together, conjoin, conjugate, couple, interlock, join, knit, mix, tie in, unite), з'�"днувати (adjoin, agglutinate, aggregate, amalgamate, articulate, associate, cement, commingle, compact, compound, concatenate, conflate, conjoin, couple, cumulate, glue, inosculate, interlock, joint, knit, leash, link, merge, piece together, tag, thwack, tie in, twin, unite), асоціювати (associate, couple). (various references)

Welsh

cysylltu (annex, join). (various references)

adplica, adplicabant, adplicabat, adplicabimus, adplicabis, adplicabisque, adplicabitur, adplicabo, adplicabuntur, adplicant, adplicarent, adplicat, adplicate, adplicaverunt, adplicavit, adplicet, adplicitosque, adplicitum, adplicuerunt, adplicuimus, adplicuit, adplicuitque, aperis, api, apis, apta, aptas, apti, aptum, aptus, commiserat, commiserit, commiserunt, commisi, commisit, commissum, commissura, commissuram, commissuras, committant, committe, committebant, committenda, committentes, committere, committit, committitis, committunt, concatenatis, conectatur, conexum, coniuncta, coniunctae, coniuncti, coniunctus, coniungantur, coniungat, coniungere, coniungeretur, coniungetis, coniungi, coniungit, coniungitis, coniungitur, coniunxerant, coniunxerunt, coniunximus, coniunxit, coniunxitque, conseres, conseretur, conservi, contineo, copulabis, copulabitur, copulabuntur, copulari, copulata, copulatas, copulatus, copulavi, copulavit, iugo, iuncta, iunctae, iunctaeque, iunctas, iuncti, iunctis, iuncto, iunctura, iuncturae, iuncturam, iuncturas, iuncturis, iunctus, iungamus, iungantur, iungatur, iunge, iungebantur, iungebat, iungenda, iungentes, iungentur, iungere, iungeremus, iungerentur, iungerer, iungeretur, iungeris, iunges, iungimur, iungit, iungite, iunxerit, iunxerunt, iunxeruntque, iunxit. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "connect": connectable, connected, connectedly, connectedness, connectednesses, connecter, connecters, connectible, connecting, connection, connectional, connections, connective, connectively, connectives, connectivities, connectivity, connector, connectors, connects. (additional references)

Words ending with "connect": disconnect, interconnect, misconnect, reconnect. (additional references)

Words containing "connect": disconnected, disconnectedly, disconnectedness, disconnectednesses, disconnecting, disconnection, disconnections, disconnects, interconnected, interconnectedness, interconnectednesses, interconnecting, interconnection, interconnections, interconnects, misconnected, misconnecting, misconnection, misconnections, misconnects, nonconnection, nonconnections, reconnected, reconnecting, reconnection, reconnections, reconnects, unconnected. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Connect" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: concent, conect, conent, connant, Connarty, connec, Connecta, connectg, connecti, connectic, connek, connet, Connett, Connock, conoct, contect, Pconnect. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: concent.

-1 letter: nocent.

-2 letters: cento, conte, nonce, nonet, tenon, tonne.

-3 letters: cent, cone, conn, cote, neon, none, note, once, tone.

-4 letters: con, cot, eon, net, not, one, ten, toe, ton.

-5 letters: en, et, ne, no, oe, on, to.

+1 letter: concents, connects.

+2 letters: concenter, connected, connecter, connector, reconnect.

+3 letters: coenacting, coincident, conceiting, concenters, concentric, conception, concertina, concerting, concertini, concertino, concreting, concretion, concurrent, confecting, confection, connecters, connecting, connection, connective, connectors, continence, convecting, convection, disconnect, misconnect, nonascetic, reconnects.

+4 letters: anacreontic, anticyclone, cancelation, cinquecento, cognoscente, cognoscenti, concatenate, concealment, concentered, concentrate, conceptions, concernment, concertinas, concertinos, concrescent, concretions, concurrents, conductance, confections, conjunctive, conjuncture, connectable, connectedly, connectible, connections, connectives, consecution, consistence, consistency, constancies, continences, contingence, contingency, continuance, contrivance, convections, conventicle, countenance, disconnects, inconscient, misconnects, necromantic, nonascetics, nonelectric, reconnected, unaccounted, unconnected.