connect
/kəˈnɛkt/
Frequency: 4.38 in modern English
Meaning
verb
To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.
Intransitive verb
verb
To join: to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to each other.
Intransitive verb
verb
To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to be a link between two objects, thereby attaching them to each other.
Transitive verb
verb
To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to take one object and attach it to another.
Transitive verb
verb
To join an electrical or telephone line to a circuit or network.
verb
To make a travel connection; to switch from one means of transport to another as part of the same trip.
Example Sentences
- "I think this piece connects to that piece over there."
- "Both roads have the same name, but they don't connect: they're on opposite sides of the river, and there's no bridge there."
- "When that roundhouse kick connected with his temple it sent him flying across the room."
- "The new railroad will connect the northern part of the state to the southern part."
- "Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.[…]A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes."
- "With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: con-