connect
IPA: kʌnˈɛkt
noun
- (slang) Clipping of connection.
- A drug dealer.
- A useful friend or associate.
verb
- (intransitive, of an object) To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.
- (intransitive, of two objects) To join: to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to each other.
- (intransitive, of a blow) To arrive at an intended target; to land.
- (transitive, of an object) 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.
- (transitive, of a person) To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to take one object and attach it to another.
- To join an electrical or telephone line to a circuit or network.
- To associate; to establish a relation between.
- To make a travel connection; to switch from one means of transport to another as part of the same trip.
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Examples of "connect" in Sentences
- How they connect is both coincidental and haunting.
- The way he and the four soldiers connect is something of a miracle.
- $connect = mysql_connect ($hostname, $username, $password) or die ( "Error: could not connect to database");
- Though I'm not shy, I know many people are and giving them an opportunity to connect is absolutely priceless.
- Cutler couldn't connect from the Bills '15-yard line on consecutive passes to the end zone to Brandon Stokley, sure made the Chargers happy.
- One site that does a quality job (however sobering and gloomy) of collecting dismal dots to connect, is so-called Mike Ruppert's so-called blog.
- The issue on which we seem to not connect is the polarized partisan political environment which lets thugs like Rove and Gingrich and Cheney work their wonders, such as putting the failed oil man, Bush, in the White House, in the first place.
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