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Meaning connect meaning

What does connect mean?
Definitions in simple English

connect Verb

— When you connect things, you join, link or unite them. The man connected device to the battery with a wire.

connect

— verb (= link, tie) connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces Can you connect the two loudspeakers? Tie the ropes together Link arms — verb (= relate, colligate) make a logical or causal connection I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind colligate these facts I cannot relate these events at all — verb join by means of communication equipment The telephone company finally put in lines to connect the towns in this area — verb (= link, link up, join, unite) be or become joined or united or linked The two streets connect to become a highway Our paths joined The travelers linked up again at the airport — verb join for the purpose of communication Operator, could you connect me to the Raffles in Singapore? — verb land on or hit solidly The brick connected on her head, knocking her out — verb hit or play a ball successfully The batter connected for a home run — verb establish a rapport or relationship The President of this university really connects with the faculty — verb be scheduled so as to provide continuing service, as in transportation The local train does not connect with the Amtrak train The planes don't connect and you will have to wait for four hours — verb establish communication with someone did you finally connect with your long-lost cousin? — verb (= plug in, plug into) plug into an outlet Please plug in the toaster! Connect the TV so we can watch the football game tonight

Synonyms connect synonyms

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connect English » English

join link unite attach tie associate fasten relate combine bind link up plug in involve couple assemble unify tie up put together merge connect up splice mix join together colligate bring together tie in interconnect fix correlate adjoin add tie on stick set joint insert hook up hit connection connected concern cement bond annex affix affiliate weld transfer touch base touch

Topics connect topics

What do people use connect to talk about?
Physical actions Arrange Join, attach

Link, connect
Physical actions Arrange

Join, attach
States Location Here, there

Touching, contact
Grammar

Connected with, related

Conjugation connect conjugation

How do you conjugate connect?

connect · verb

Examples connect examples

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Simple sentences

Connect the plug to the socket.
Please connect me with Dr. White.
Will you please connect me with Mr Smith?
We usually connect Americans with freedom.
He used a wire to connect the new light.
Will you please connect me with Mr. Smith?
Please connect a controller.
I can't connect to the Internet.
Imogen of the Internet can connect to dial-up BBSes by whistling into a funnel attached to a phone line.
He knows how to connect his computer to the Internet.
How can I connect my iPod to a car stereo?
If you're lucky, you'll be able to connect yourself to a relative who has put more effort into studying your family's genealogy than you ever could.
Please connect me with Mr Smith.
Connect the two cables together.
She has asked the person at the front desk to connect her to that number.
I cannot connect my phone to the Internet.
I connect to the Internet almost every day.
Their job is to connect the computers to the network.

Movie subtitles

I go for the lowest form of man because I'm afraid to be with someone I might actually connect with.
I can connect you with room service.
Connect me with Mr. Hardwick's apartment, please.
Just like I'm gonna connect with you, because my music has a simple message.
We run the pipes through here and connect with the main waterline here.
The baroness says that as you spoke about an English lady, she didn't connect her with Madame Kummer.
Please connect me with Mercier.
Just a moment and I'll connect you.
All right, connect me.
Oh, he has? Would you connect me, please?
Oh, dear! Naturally, I was frightfully anxious to see Uncle Alfred, and as I didn't know just where Connect-i-cut was.
You may connect Mrs. Sullivan.
Does this here stage connect to the railroad that goes to Saint Joe?
Now take the wire back as far as it will reach before I connect it.
But the spiral arms from both parts do connect!
Connect me with the Homicide bureau.
Well, connect me with the head mechanic.
As you spoke about an English lady she didn't connect her with Mme Kummer.
From there, she can connect with the Eastern Limited.
Peggy never seems to connect very well.
Naturally, I was frightfully anxious to see Uncle Alfred, and as I didn't know just where Connect-i-cut was.
The dirty, rotten- Mansion House? Connect me with my maid.
Then torpedoes can connect right where you're sitting, and still nothing will happen.
You can connect it!
All right, connect her with him and I'll listen in.
Just a moment. I'll connect you. -Just a moment, please.
Would you connect me, please?
I'll connect you with Studio A.
This building must connect with one on the next street.
Do you connect with the stage for Virginia City?

News and current affairs

Although it may be difficult to connect the dots, it is perfectly possible that a huge euro crisis could have a snowball effect in the US and elsewhere.
That talk is sending shudders across Europe, where many people connect it with America's oft-stated desire to remove Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq.
Neuro-anatomists have shown that the pathways that connect the amygdala with the thinking brain, the neocortex, are not symmetrical - the connections from the cortex to the amygdala are considerably weaker than those from the amygdala to the cortex.
From now on, US diplomatic relations with other countries will engage directly with their people and connect them to the American people as much as possible.
Access to electricity could solve that problem, while allowing families to read at night, own a refrigerator to keep food from spoiling, or use a computer to connect with the world.
The New Silk Road land belt seeks to connect China with the economies of East Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, and Europe through an expanded grid of rail, highways, power, fiber, and other networks.
The wall is designed to surround a truncated Palestine completely, and a network of exclusive highways will cut across what is left of Palestine to connect Israel with the Jordan River Valley.
On the horizon in two directions, spaced at around four kilometers, were the mobile towers to connect the new school with the world.
A Global Fund for Education, combined with a global voluntary effort to connect kids around the world, offers the chance for a breakthrough that was not realistic even a few years ago.
Similarly, an agreed European framework for projects that connect countries would remove obstacles to cross-border investment.
But no solution is possible until we abandon the savings shortage and savings glut hypotheses and connect today's global financial imbalances with global production patterns and inadequate demand in developing countries.
If income is expected to be low (perhaps because of other missing networks), it does not pay to connect a firm or a household to the network, because the fixed costs will not be recouped.
So, a strategy for inclusive growth has to focus on ways of either lowering or paying for the fixed costs that connect people to networks.
Poor countries lack the money to connect every person to every network at once, which explains the huge regional differences in income.
China and Japan, Japan and Korea, India and Pakistan, Singapore and Malaysia, and many other pairings of states connect on some levels, but remain dangerously divided on others.
This requires building and maintaining fair and efficient input and output markets that connect them - as well as larger-scale farmers - physically and virtually to opportunities to increase their incomes.
On the subject of despotic rulers, Rouhani offered only the benign observation that they lack the ability to connect with and understand their people.
Demagogues stack prejudices atop half-truths, and any attempt to connect discussion with reality is shot through with contemptuous accusations of dishonesty and self-interest.
Suddenly, even remote schools can connect to the Internet and to other schools through a solar panel, low-cost computers, and wireless access.
But, even when the parliament does make an effort to connect with voters, the ponderous bureaucratic culture of its permanent officials tends to spoil things.
There are greater forces at work than his exotic private life and inability to connect with voters.
His design centered on the construction of an imposing avenue to connect the Forbidden City and the National Stadium in which the opening ceremony will take place.

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