connect
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
connect/kəˈnekt/
▶verb
- 1 bring together so as to establish a link.
■ join together so as to provide access and communication.
■ put into contact by telephone.
- 2 associate or relate (something) in some respect: bonuses are connected to the firm's performance.
- 3 (of a train, bus, etc.) arrive at its destination just before another departs so that passengers can transfer.
- 4 informal (of a blow) hit the intended target.
– derivatives
connectable adjective,
connectedly adverb,
connectedness noun,
connector noun.
connectable adjective,
connectedly adverb,
connectedness noun,
connector noun.
– origin ME: from L. connectere, from con- ‘together’ + nectere ‘bind’.
'connect' also found in these Oxford entries:
affiliate
- and
- annex
- boat train
- conjunction
- couple
- crimp
- crocodile clip
- cross link
- cruciate ligament
- daisy chain
- dialling code
- earth
- fishplate
- gateway
- ground
- hotlink
- hypoid
- interconnect
- interface
- interlink
- interrelate
- interwork
- jack
- ligature
- mate
- network
- pair
- patch
- plug
- plumb
- put
- reconnect
- rope
- Scart
- spud
- sternocleidomastoid
- tap
- tie
- turnbuckle
