Word Finder - connect

definition

(of an object) To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.

example

I think this piece connects to that piece over there.

synonyms

• affix
• join
• put together
• unite

definition

(of two objects) To join: to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to each other.

example

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.

definition

(of an object) 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.

example

The new railroad will connect the northern part of the state to the southern part.

definition

(of a person) To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to take one object and attach it to another.

example

I connected the printer to the computer, but I couldn't get it work.

definition

To join an electrical or telephone line to a circuit or network.

example

When the technician connects my house, I'll be able to access the internet.

definition

To associate; to establish a relation between.

example

I didn't connect my lost jewelry with the news of an area cat burglar until the police contacted me.

definition

To make a travel connection; to switch from one means of transport to another as part of the same trip.

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I'm flying to London where I connect with a flight heading to Hungary.

Steam tramways connect it S.E.

She doesn't need to connect the dots back to me.

You could start looking around for lines that connect things we didn't previously think were connected.

He located the spot where his fangs would connect, but first he would rock her world.

She has learned to connect certain movements of the body with anger, others with joy, and others still with sorrow.

We are building the Internet to connect with each other better, to share information, to collaborate, to offer mutual support, and so on.

His gaze was steady and commanding as he sought to connect with her panicked mind.

There were a few strands here and there, though certainly not enough to connect to the dream.

To English people, therefore, the Presbyterian is still the "Scotch Church," and they are as a whole slow to connect themselves with it.

If we have a large range of examples, if our observation is constantly directed to seeking the correlation of cause and effect in people's actions, their actions appear to us more under compulsion and less free the more correctly we connect the effects with the causes.

Lines of steamers connect Australia with London and other British ports, with Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, Japan, China, India, San Francisco, Vancouver, New York and Montevideo, several important lines being subsidized by the countries to which they belong, notably Germany, France and Japan.

The general American doctrine is that where the contract is contained in separate writings they must connect themselves by reference, and that parol evidence is not admissible to connect them.

Computers can connect to and control highly specialized scientific instruments, and equipment can be accessed remotely.

Daily stages connect the village with Farmville (pop. in 1900, 2471), the county-seat, 6 m.

They are Nature's watchmen--links which connect the days of animated life.

Jenn felt worn from the inside as her internal magic tried to connect with that of the world.

It is not practicable to connect each subscriber directly to all the others, hence a system of exchanges has been adopted.

The stems are frequently characterized by aeration channels, which connect the aerial parts with the parts which are buried in practically airless mud or silt.

Perhaps Byrne was afraid someone would connect him to the theft, a fear that would be eliminated by his "death"—a fear that was turning out to be well founded.

He resigned this post in 1820, upon the death of his wife, to whom he was fondly attached, and, though making some efforts to connect himself with journalism, spent the years immediately succeeding in idleness, residing for the most part in Paris.

Tiedemann, 2 the Heidelberg anatomist, who has been generally ignored, although he surpassed many a recent zoogeographer by the wide view he took of the problem; in fact he was the first to connect distribution with environmental or bionomic factors; e.g.

Unless it be quite short, it can scarcely ever be planned simply to connect its two terminal points, without regard to the intervening country; in order to be of the greatest utility and to secure the greatest.

C. Behr, to connect Liverpool and Manchester, was sanctioned by Parliament in 1901.

David's hurried flight, attended only by his bodyguard, indicates that his position was not a very strong one, and it is difficult to connect this with the fact that he had already waged the wars mentioned in 2 Sam.

A railway line to connect the North Caucasian line (Rostov to Petrovsk) with the Transcaucasian line (Batum to Baku) has been built along the Caspian shore from Petrovsk, through the "gate" or pass of Derbent, to Baku.

There is reason to believe that before the 6th century B.C. the caravans reached Damascus without coming near the oasis of Tadmor; probably, therefore, we may connect the origin of the city with the gradual forward movement of the nomad Arabs which followed on the overthrow of the ancient nationalities of Syria by the Babylonian Empire (6th century B.C.).

Branches were promoted (a) from Mukden to Antung on the Yalu, to connect with the Korean system, and (b) from Kwang-cheng-tsze to Kirin.

Close to it are a series of steps hewn in the rock which connect with those discovered in 1886 within the Acropolis wall.

With the breadth and depth of the Saviour's sympathy, which are so fully exhibited in this Gospel, we may connect the clearness with which His true humanity is here portrayed.

Navigable branches connect the canal with Muttra and Agra.

Canals are numerous and connect the various river systems.

Five fine bridges connect the Altstadt and Neustadt.

Tramways and "feeder roads" have been built to connect various places with the railway; one such road goes from railhead to Kailahun in Liberia.

With the press of a button, you can connect the appropriate pod to the machine, then with another press of a button, you can release the pod.

It's a good idea to go for a man whose profile you connect with on a more personal level.

This is a totally free website designed to connect Christian singles.

Also known as browser games, online games are often social, with online chat rooms or forums to help connect players.

The first is to find websites that have chord generators, and the second is to find a program that can connect you to great chord resources.

It was only a matter of time before someone began to connect our tips.

Following on this he made an interesting experiment, using Morse's method, to connect the Isle of Wight telegraphically with the mainland, by conduction across the Solent in two places, during a temporary failure of the submarine cable in 1882 in that channel.

When the subscribers in a local area exceed a certain number, or when for some other reason it is not convenient or economical to connect all the subscribers in the area to one exchange, it is usual to divide the area into a number of districts in each of which an exchange is placed, and to connect these district exchanges together by means of " junction circuits."

The idea of automatic telephony is to substitute for the operator of the manual exchange an electromechanical or other switching system, which, controlled in its movement by the action of the subscriber, will automatically select, connect and disconnect circuits as desired.

Colour and Constitution.-In this article a summary of the theories which have been promoted in order to connect the colour of organic compounds with their constitution will be given, and the reader is referred to the article Colour for the physical explanation of this property, and to Vision for the physiological and psychological bearings.

The attempts to connect the name Yahweh with that of an Indo-European deity (Jehovah-Jove, &c.), or to derive it from Egyptian or Chinese, may be passed over.

The river is navigable for barges, and railways connect the town with all parts of Germany.

Similarly the Jewish synagogues have each their eternal lamp; while in the religion of Islam lighted lamps mark things and places specially holy; thus the Ka`ba at Mecca is illuminated by thousands of lamps hanging from the gold and silver rods that connect the columns of the surrounding colonnade.

Demonstrate how to safely and efficiently use the tools and fasteners and encourage everyone to use each tool to connect some boards together.

Work and Connect is the place for green entrepreneurs to get ideas and advice on starting green businesses.

For smaller, basic windmills, you can use a shaft to connect your blades to the tower.

The turning blades connect to a main drive shaft that spins a generator, converting the kinetic energy to electrical energy.