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CONNECTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Joined or linked together
Classified under:
Similar:
adjacent; conterminous; contiguous; neighboring (having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching)
adjunctive (joining; forming an adjunct)
affined (closely related)
conterminous; contiguous (connecting without a break; within a common boundary)
coupled; joined; linked (connected by a link, as railway cars or trailer trucks)
engaged (built against or attached to a wall)
well-connected (connected by blood or close acquaintance with people of wealth or social position)
Attribute:
connectedness; connection; connexion (a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it))
Antonym:
unconnected (not joined or linked together)
Derivation:
connectedness (the state of being connected)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Stored in, controlled by, or in direct communication with a central computer
Synonyms:
connected; machine-accessible
Classified under:
Similar:
on-line; online (connected to a computer network or accessible by computer)
Derivation:
connectedness (a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it))
Sense 3
Meaning:
Plugged in
Example:
first check to see whether the appliance is connected
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
on (in operation or operational)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Being joined in close association
Example:
all art schools whether independent or attached to universities
Synonyms:
affiliated; attached; connected
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
related; related to (being connected either logically or causally or by shared characteristics)
Derivation:
connectedness (the state of being connected)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Wired together to an alarm system
Example:
all the window alarms are connected
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
wired (equipped with wire or wires especially for electric or telephone service)
Derivation:
connectedness (a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it))
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb connect
Context examples:
An organic compound that is likely to cause cancer and contains only carbon and hydrogen that can be arranged in rows, rings, or both, and connected by single, double or triple bonds.
(Carcinogenic Hydrocarbon, NCI Thesaurus)
A type of breast reconstruction in which blood vessels called deep inferior epigastric perforators (DIEP), and the skin and fat connected to them are removed from the lower abdomen and used for reconstruction.
(DIEP flap, NCI Dictionary)
Stay connected to your family and friends during this period.
(Disaster Preparation and Recovery, Federal Emergency Management Agency)
With whomsoever he was, or was likely to be connected, his own consequence always required that theirs should be great, and as his intimacy with any acquaintance grew, so regularly grew their fortune.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
A thymoma that arises in the cervical region and is not connected with the thymus gland.
(Ectopic Cervical Thymoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Issue associated with the unintentional separation of the device and/or its components from something to which it is connected or attached.
(Detachment of Medical Device Component, Food and Drug Administration)
One could not be connected with better people.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
A single entity that can be represented as a set of atoms usually connected through a continuous set of covalent bonds.
(Chemical Moiety, NCI Thesaurus)
The longitudinal fiber of the esophagus connected to the cricoid cartilage of the larynx.
(Cricoesophageal Tendon, NCI Thesaurus)
A connected set of points constituting a one-dimensional continuum.
(Curve, NCI Thesaurus)
