Connect Definition

kə-nĕkt

connected, connecting, connects

verb

connected, connecting, connects

To join or fasten (two things together, or one thing with or to another); link; couple.

Webster's New World

To meet so that passengers can transfer promptly.

Webster's New World

To show or think of as related; associate.

To connect germs with disease.

Webster's New World

To join or be joined.

Webster's New World

To be related in some way or in a proper or logical way.

Webster's New World

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idiom

connect the dots

To draw connecting lines between a seemingly random arrangement of numbered dots so as to produce a picture or design.
To draw logical inferences connecting items of information to reveal something previously hidden or unknown.

American Heritage

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Connect

Middle English connecten from Latin cōnectere, connectere cō-, com- com- nectere to bind ned- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Latin cōnnectō (“fasten together”), from con (“together”) + nectō (“bind, tie”).

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