connect
About 10.46 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.
I think this piece connects to that piece over there.
- verb To join: to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to each other.
Both roads have the same name, but they don't connect: they're on opposite sides of the river, and there's no bridge there.
- verb To arrive at an intended target; to land.
When that roundhouse kick connected with his temple it sent him flying across the room.
- verb To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to be a link between two objects, thereby attaching them to each other.
The new railroad will connect the northern part of the state to the southern part.
- verb To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to take one object and attach it to another.
I connected the printer to the computer, but I couldn't get it work.
- verb To join an electrical or telephone line to a circuit or network.
When the technician connects my house, I'll be able to access the internet.
- verb To associate; to establish a relation between.
I didn't connect my lost jewelry with the news of an area cat burglar until the police contacted me.
- verb To make a travel connection; to switch from one means of transport to another as part of the same trip.
I'm flying to London where I connect with a flight heading to Hungary.
Similar words
link unite associate relate join plug in tie in tie touch base get in touch
Often followed by
the to with it them a this these and
Word family
connectable connected connecter connecters connectible connecting connector connectors connects
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