connected
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’.
'connected' also found in these Oxford entries:
adjunct
- affined
- Africana
- agro-industry
- allied
- alliteration
- ammonia
- articulate
- -ary
- associate
- associative
- Augustan
- axis
- backplane
- battery
- beam compass
- bedfellow
- Beringian
- bob
- bolas
- bus
- caecum
- Caesarean
- catena
- catenated
- chain
- circumstance
- cognate
- colony
- commutative
- commutator
- complex
- connect
- connectivity
- digastric muscle
- dissociate
- do
- docking station
- double-wide
- earmuffs
- fence
- focus
- hard-wired
- hendiadys
- history
- hold
- hot-swap
- hourglass
- inconsequent
- independent
