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Connected   /kənˈɛktəd/  /kənˈɛktɪd/   Listen
verb
Connect  v. t.  (past & past part. connected; pres. part. connecting)  
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." "A man must see the connection of each intermediate idea with those that it connects before he can use it in a syllogism."
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.
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.
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.


Connect  v. i.  To join, unite, or cohere; to have a close relation; as, one line of railroad connects with another; one argument connects with another.


adjective
connected  adj.  
1.
P. p. of connect. (Narrower terms: abutting, adjacent, adjoining, bordering(prenominal), conterminous, coterminous, contiguous) (Narrower terms: adjunctive) (Narrower terms: affined) (Narrower terms: attached) (Narrower terms: contiguous, in contact) (Narrower terms: coupled, joined, linked) (Narrower terms: cursive, flowing) (Narrower terms: siamese) (Narrower terms: socially connected, well-connected). Antonym: unconnected.
2.
Being joined in close association.
Synonyms: affiliated, attached.
3.
Connected by a conductor so as to allow the flow of electric signals. (Narrower terms: wired (vs. wireless)) WordNet 1.5)
4.
(Music) Legato. Antonym: staccato.
Synonyms: flowing, smooth.
5.
Associated with or accompanying.
Synonyms: associated.
6.
(Computers) Stored in, controlled by, or in direct communication with a central computer. (Narrower terms: on-line (vs. off-line), online, on line(predicate))
Synonyms: machine-accessible.
7.
Switched on. (Narrower terms: on-line (vs. off-line), online, on line(predicate))
Synonyms: ready, on.
8.
Having some relation.
Synonyms: related.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Connected" Quotes from Famous Books



... for a moment, busy patching the pieces of the story together into one connected whole. Then, leaning forward suddenly, she cried, excitedly, "Then M. Charloix deliberately made up that wicked, cruel lie that separated you ...
— Lucile Triumphant • Elizabeth M. Duffield
... change their consciences. Their consciences seem to keep hanging on to them, in the same set way—somehow—with or without their minds. "Some people's consciences don't seem to notice much, so far as I can see, whether they have minds connected with them or not." "Don't you know what it is," I appealed to the P. G. S. of M., "to get everything all fixed up with your mind and your reason and your soul; that certain things that look wrong are all right,—the very things of all others that you ought to do ...
— The Lost Art of Reading • Gerald Stanley Lee
... of the Southampton, though it stands on classic ground, and is connected by vocal tradition with the great names of the Elizabethan age. What a falling off is here I Our ancestors of that period seem not only to be older by two hundred years, and proportionably wiser and wittier than we, but hardly a trace of them is left, not even the memory of what ...
— Table-Talk - Essays on Men and Manners • William Hazlitt
... abstract moral appeal could have awakened her as did the going out of that little futile life. It stirred her deepest sympathies and affections, and connected her for the first time with the forces that make for moral ...
— Calvary Alley • Alice Hegan Rice
... They are mounted at the extremity of four latticed girders that likewise carry girder pulleys, D. The pulleys that are situated at the side of the bridge are provided laterally with a conical toothing which gears with a pinion connected ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 • Various


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