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connect

Pronunciation: /kəˈnɛkt/

The English word “connect” has 10 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.
  2. To join: to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to each other.
  3. To arrive at an intended target; to land.
  4. 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.
  5. To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to take one object and attach it to another.
  6. To join an electrical or telephone line to a circuit or network.
  7. To associate; to establish a relation between.
  8. To make a travel connection; to switch from one means of transport to another as part of the same trip.

noun

  1. A drug dealer.
  2. A useful friend or associate.

Etymology

From Latin connectere (“fasten together”), from con- (“together”) + nectere (“bind”), which is cognate with English knot and English knit.

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