connect

[ kuh-nekt ]

/ kəˈnɛkt /

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verb (used with object)

to join, link, or fasten together; unite or bind: to connect the two cities by a bridge; Communication satellites connect the local stations into a network.

to establish communication between; put in communication: Operator, will you please connect me with Mr. Jones?

to have as an accompanying or associated feature: pleasures connected with music.

to cause to be associated, as in a personal or business relationship: to connect oneself with a group of like-minded persons; Our bank is connected with major foreign banks.

to associate mentally or emotionally: She connects all telegrams with bad news.

to link to an electrical or communications system; hook up: to connect a telephone.

verb (used without object)

to become connected; join or unite: These two parts connect at the sides.

(of trains, buses, etc.) to run so as to make connections (often followed by with): This bus connects with a northbound bus.

Informal. to have or establish successful communication; make contact: I connected with two new clients today.

Informal. to relate to or be in harmony with another person, one's work, etc.: We knew each other well but never connected.

Slang. (of a drug dealer or user) to make direct contact for the illegal sale or purchase of drugs, as narcotics.

Sports. to hit successfully or solidly: The batter connected for a home run. The boxer connected with a right.

adjective

of or relating to a connection or connections: connect charges for a new cable television channel.

OPPOSITES FOR connect

1 divide, sunder.

4 dissociate.

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Origin of connect

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English, from Latin connectere, equivalent to con- “with, together” + nectere “to tie”; see con-, nexus

OTHER WORDS FROM connect

con·nect·i·ble, con·nect·a·ble, adjectivecon·nect·i·bil·i·ty, con·nect·a·bil·i·ty, nounmis·con·nect, verbre·con·nect, verb (used with object)

sub·con·nect, verb

Words nearby connect

Connacht, connate, connatural, Connaught, Conneaut, connect, connected, connectedness, connecter, Connecticut, Connecticut chest

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To connect is to link or fasten together, as two cities by a bridge. How is connect different from join and unite? Find out on Thesaurus.com.

How to use connect in a sentence

Fabletics has already been building out technology trying to connect online and offline user habits in its stores.
Fabletics’ Adam Goldenberg and Kevin Hart on what’s next for the activewear empire|Lucas Matney|September 17, 2020|TechCrunch
Node helps to verify each influencer’s audience, then connects brands with these influencers with pre-negotiated deal terms.
Here are the 19 companies presenting at Alchemist Accelerator Demo Day XXV today|Greg Kumparak|September 17, 2020|TechCrunch
The company asked me to look into connecting the system I built to Metrc.
Canix aims to ease cannabis cultivators’ regulatory bookkeeping|Matt Burns|September 17, 2020|TechCrunch
You can customize the look of your space by connecting the hexagon panels in whatever pattern suits your needs.
Cork boards for organizing your home or office|PopSci Commerce Team|September 17, 2020|Popular-Science

Perigree helps protect things like heating and cooling systems or elevators that may lack patches or true security, yet are connected to the network in a very real way.
Perigee infrastructure security solution from former NSA employee moves into public beta|Ron Miller|September 17, 2020|TechCrunch
Brands like Lo & Sons and Delsey are already tapping Travel Noire to connect with black travelers.
‘We Out Here’: Inside the New Black Travel Movement|Charlise Ferguson|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Snowden contacted Poitras in mid-January 2013 after failing to connect with Greenwald due to his lack of encryption.
Laura Poitras on Snowden's Unrevealed Secrets|Marlow Stern|December 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The archaeologists I did connect with were not interested in drive-by interviews.
The Real-Life Raiders of the Lost Ark|Alex Belth|November 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
They all connect us to the people and objects and stories of our past.
The Real-Life Raiders of the Lost Ark|Alex Belth|November 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Sachs adds, “All the senses that connect us with nature are important.”
Magical Gardens for the Blind, Deaf, and Disabled|Elizabeth Picciuto|October 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Synthesis will be sometimes hereafter resorted to to connect in our minds an event to its date.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
I asked a pupil then present—a girl nine years old—to connect them.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
The name is territorial; and the better opinion is inclined to connect it with Brix, between Cherbourg and Valognes.
King Robert the Bruce|A. F. Murison
I can not connect myself with any man whose tastes and sympathies are not in accordance with my own.
Madame Roland, Makers of History|John S. C. Abbott
Some of his best and most prominent characteristics did not connect him with one more than with another section of the Church.
The English Church in the Eighteenth Century|Charles J. Abbey and John H. Overton

British Dictionary definitions for connect

connect

/ (kəˈnɛkt) /

verb

to link or be linked together; join; fasten

(tr) to relate or associateI connect him with my childhood

(tr) to establish telephone communications with or between

(intr) to be meaningful or meaningfully related

(intr) (of two public vehicles, such as trains or buses) to have the arrival of one timed to occur just before the departure of the other, for the convenient transfer of passengers

(intr) informal to hit, punch, kick, etc, solidly

(intr) US and Canadian informal to be successful

(intr) slang to find a source of drugs, esp illegal drugs

Derived forms of connect

connectible or connectable, adjectiveconnector or connecter, noun

Word Origin for connect

C17: from Latin connectere to bind together, from nectere to bind, tie

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