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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Connect \Con*nect"\ (k[o^]n*n[e^]kt"), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Connected}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Connecting}.] [L. connectere, -nexum; con- + nectere to bind. See {Annex}.]
1. To join, or fasten together, as by something intervening; to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to establish a bond or relation between.
He fills, he bounds, connects and equals all. --Pope.
A man must see the connection of each intermediate idea with those that it connects before he can use it in a syllogism. --Locke.
2. To associate (a person or thing, or one's self) with another person, thing, business, or affair.
3. To establish a communication link; -- used with with; as, his telephone didn't answer, so I connected with him by email. [PJC]
4. To electronically or mechanically link (a device) to another device, or to link a device to a common communication line; -- used with with; as, the installer connected our telephones on Monday; I connected my VCR to the TV set by myself; the plumber connected a shut-off valve to my gas line. [PJC]
{Connecting rod} (Mach.), a rod or bar joined to, and connecting, two or more moving parts; esp. a rod connecting a crank wrist with a beam, crosshead, piston rod, or piston, as in a steam engine.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
connecting \connecting\ adjective
1. having a connection; as, connecting rooms. [WordNet 1.5]
2. forming a connection; as, a connecting corridor. [PJC]
3. (Grammar) syntactically connecting sentences or elements of a sentence.
Syn: copulative. [WordNet 1.5]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
connecting \connecting\ n. the act of bringing two things into contact.
Syn: joining, connection, connexion. [WordNet 1.5]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
connecting \connecting\ a. forming a connection; as, a connecting flight.
Syn: joining. [WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
connecting
adjective
1: having a connection; "connecting rooms"
2: syntactically connecting sentences or elements of a sentence; "'and' is a copulative conjunction" [syn: {copulative}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
37 Moby Thesaurus words for "connecting": adjacent, adjoining, binding, bordering, coalescent, coalescing, combinative, combinatory, combining, communicating, conjunctival, conjunctive, connectional, connective, conterminous, contiguous, copulative, coterminous, end to end, endways, endwise, face to face, immediate, intercommunicating, joined, joining, juxtaposed, juxtapositional, juxtapositive, linking, meeting, neighbor, neighboring, next, unific, unifying, uniting
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