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CONNECT

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a logical or causal connection

Example:

I cannot relate these events at all

Synonyms:

associate; colligate; connect; link; link up; relate; tie in

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "connect" is one way to...):

cerebrate; cogitate; think (use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "connect"):

remember (exercise, or have the power of, memory)

interrelate (place into a mutual relationship)

correlate (bring into a mutual, complementary, or reciprocal relation)

identify (conceive of as united or associated)

free-associate (associate freely)

have in mind; mean; think of (intend to refer to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody with something
Somebody ----s something with something

Derivation:

connection (the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination)

connective (connecting or tending to connect)

connexion (the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Join for the purpose of communication

Example:

Operator, could you connect me to the Raffles in Singapore?

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "connect" is one way to...):

join (cause to become joined or linked)

Verb group:

connect (join by means of communication equipment)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody PP

Derivation:

connection (the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Join by means of communication equipment

Example:

The telephone company finally put in lines to connect the towns in this area

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "connect" is one way to...):

join (cause to become joined or linked)

Verb group:

connect (join for the purpose of communication)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

connection; connexion (the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication))

Sense 4

Meaning:

Land on or hit solidly

Example:

The brick connected on her head, knocking her out

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "connect" is one way to...):

collide with; hit; impinge on; run into; strike (hit against; come into sudden contact with)

Sentence frame:

Something is ----ing PP

Sense 5

Meaning:

Connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces

Example:

Link arms

Synonyms:

connect; link; link up; tie

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "connect"):

bridge; bridge over (connect or reduce the distance between)

hang together; interdepend (be connected)

hitch (connect to a vehicle:)

put through (connect by telephone)

tee (connect with a tee)

interconnect; interlink (cause to be interconnected or interwoven)

tie (unite musical notes by a tie)

daisy-chain (connect devices on a part of a chip or circuit board in a computer)

attach (cause to be attached)

join (cause to become joined or linked)

ground (connect to a ground)

conjoin; join (make contact or come together)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

Antonym:

disconnect (make disconnected, disjoin or unfasten)

Derivation:

connecter (an instrumentality that connects)

connective (connecting or tending to connect)

connector (an instrumentality that connects)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Hit or play a ball successfully

Example:

The batter connected for a home run

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "connect" is one way to...):

hit (cause to move by striking)

Domain category:

ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Sense 7

Meaning:

Plug into an outlet

Example:

Connect the TV so we can watch the football game tonight

Synonyms:

connect; plug in; plug into

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "connect" is one way to...):

enter; infix; insert; introduce (put or introduce into something)

"Connect" entails doing...:

join (cause to become joined or linked)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

connexion; connector; connection (an instrumentality that connects)

Sense 8

Meaning:

Establish communication with someone

Example:

did you finally connect with your long-lost cousin?

Synonyms:

connect; get in touch; touch base

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "connect" is one way to...):

interact (act together or towards others or with others)

Verb group:

connect (establish a rapport or relationship)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

connection; connexion (the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication))

Sense 9

Meaning:

Establish a rapport or relationship

Example:

The President of this university really connects with the faculty

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "connect" is one way to...):

relate (have or establish a relationship to)

Verb group:

connect; get in touch; touch base (establish communication with someone)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

connection ((usually plural) a person who is influential and to whom you are connected in some way (as by family or friendship))

connective (connecting or tending to connect)

Sense 10

Meaning:

Be or become joined or united or linked

Example:

The travelers linked up again at the airport

Synonyms:

connect; join; link; link up; unite

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "connect"):

syndicate (join together into a syndicate)

articulate (unite by forming a joint or joints)

complect; interconnect; interlink (be interwoven or interconnected)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Derivation:

connective (connecting or tending to connect)

Sense 11

Meaning:

Be scheduled so as to provide continuing service, as in transportation

Example:

The planes don't connect and you will have to wait for four hours

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "connect" is one way to...):

be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Derivation:

connection; connexion (shifting from one form of transportation to another)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Issue associated with the deviations from documented system specifications that affects overall system performance and/or the performance of an individual device or collection of devices connected to that system.

(Application Network Issue Associated with Medical Device, Food and Drug Administration)

I am not fond of the prattle of children, he continued; for, old bachelor as I am, I have no pleasant associations connected with their lisp.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The wire which connects a pacemaker or defibrillator to the atrial tissue.

(Atrial Lead, NCI Thesaurus)

It is comprised of the common bile duct that connects the liver and gall bladder to the small intestine and the cystic duct that connects the gall bladder to the common bile duct.

(Biliary tract, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Tiny blood vessels that connect the arterioles with the venules.

(Blood Capillary, NCI Thesaurus)

In traditional Chinese medicine, one of 20 channels that form a network through which qi (the body's vital energy) flows and that connect the body’s acupuncture sites.

(Meridian, NCI Dictionary)

A thin sheet or layer of pliable tissue, serving as a covering or envelope of a part, as the lining of a cavity, as a partition or septum, or to connect two structures.

(Membrane, NCI Thesaurus)

To lie in wait for me now would mean that the creature had appreciated what had happened to me, and this in turn would argue some power connecting cause and effect.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An individual biologic entity connected/linked to a subject.

(Associated Biologic Entity, NCI Thesaurus)

Capillaries connect the arteries and veins.

(Arteriovenous Malformations, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)