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单词 connection
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connection
(kəneən )
Word forms: connections regional note:   in BRIT, also use connexion
1. variable noun B2
A connection is a relationship between two things, people, or groups.
There was no evidence of a connection between BSE and the brain diseases recently confirmed in cats. [+ between]
The police say he had no connection with the security forces. [+ with]
He has denied any connection to the bombing.
Synonyms: association, relationship, link, relation  
2. countable noun B2
A connection is a joint where two wires or pipes are joined together.
Check all radiators for small leaks, especially round pipework connections.
Synonyms: link, coupling, junction, fastening  
3. countable noun [usually noun NOUN]
If a place has good road, rail, or air connections, many places can be directly reached from there by car, train, or plane.
Fukuoka has excellent air and rail connections to the rest of the country. [+ to]
4. countable noun [usually singular] B2
If you get a connection at a station or airport, you catch a train, bus, or plane, after getting off another train, bus, or plane, in order to continue your journey.
My flight was late and I missed the connection.
5. plural noun
Your connections are the people who you know or are related to, especially when they are in a position to help you.
She used her connections to full advantage.
Synonyms: contact, friend, relation, ally  
6. in connection with phrase B2
If you write or talk to someone in connection with something, you write or talk to them about that thing. [formal]
I am writing in connection with Michael Shower's letter.
13 men have been questioned in connection with the murder.
7. in this connection/in that connection phrase [PHRASE with cl]
You say in this connection or in that connection to indicate that what you are talking about is related to what you have just mentioned. [formal]
It is our 60th wedding anniversary. We are celebrating in this connection.
Collocations:
connection speed
Ask your broadband provider for an estimate of its connection speed before you sign up.
The Sun
You can send a test 'ping' to each - a burst of data designed to check the connection speed of, say, a wireless printer.
Times, Sunday Times
However, non-cable deals have a 'fair use' policy, which means that your connection speed may be slowed if you download a large amount of content.
Times, Sunday Times
Your connection speed can also be something of a postcode lottery.
Times, Sunday Times
Internet customers who are already enraged if they fail to receive the connection speed for which they pay will become even more aggrieved if the network continues to slow down.
Times, Sunday Times
deep connection
She said: 'I'm not Christian but I still feel like I have a deep connection with God'.
The Sun (2014)
The deepest connections in our lives are formed with those who go through suffering with us.
Christianity Today (2000)
Hopefully, people feel a deeper connection because it matters.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
dial-up connection
And it's still all done with a dial-up connection.
Times, Sunday Times
Your suggestion of staying with a dial-up connection would be all right if we could get a decent rate.
Times, Sunday Times
A new modem will be sent through the post and their dial-up connection will stop.
Times, Sunday Times
In 2004, friction centred on landline use, coming off the internet so others could make a call and slow dial-up connection.
The Sun
Students are able to connect remotely to the school network through a dial-up connection for two hours each evening.
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digital connection
Generally the device to be authenticated needs some sort of wireless or wired digital connection to either a host system or a network.
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This allowed a digital connection to the subscribers house and the re-use of analogue phones across the digital connection.
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Communications are key to growth, and digital connections will be paramount in the new decade.
Times,Sunday Times
The controller contains a powerful processsor and comes with handy digital connections.
Times, Sunday Times
So forge new digital connections with those you want to keep up with and keep a weather eye out for opportunities that the upheaval brings your way.
Times,Sunday Times
direct connection
Most pastors provide counseling to church members as well as persons having no direct connection with the church.
Christianity Today (2000)
Those who do not have a direct connection to a pupil can sign up as a'friend' of their local independent school.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
There is a direct connection between the conscious and subconscious mind, between the brain and the nervous system.
Vera Peiffer POSITIVE THINKING: Everything you have always known about positive thinking but were afraid to put into practice (2001)
draw a connection
It doesn't take a leap of imagination to see a future inquiry drawing this connection and ministers being demonised for their actions.
Times,Sunday Times
It shows the world as a series of vignettes, leaving the observer to draw the connections.
The Times Literary Supplement
Another scholar drew a connection between the microwave scene and urban legends about pets dying in microwave ovens.
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electrical connection
The accelerator was switched off last year after only nine days because of a faulty electrical connection between two magnets.
Times, Sunday Times
We may expect dance to be a matter of muscle and instinct, an electrical connection.
Times, Sunday Times
Tethers are used to connect the shell to winches on a portable ground station and provide an electrical connection to send power from the turbine to the ground.
Times, Sunday Times
A visitor could be injured by a falling reindeer or faulty electrical connection, and you would be responsible for such injuries.
Times, Sunday Times
The fault was caused by the cars' battery cable connectors and fuse box terminal degrading, potentially causing a break in the electrical connection between battery and fuse box.
Times, Sunday Times
emotional connection
Human beings want relationships with brands - an emotional connection.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
She was eccentric and expressive and we found a strong emotional connection.
The Sun (2009)
With this in mind, an important step in prolonging that holiday feeling is choosing pieces for your everyday wardrobe with which you have an emotional connection.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
What certainly hasn't changed is the band's unerring ability to make a real emotional connection with the listener.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Talking to a partner about what matters gets easier now you make a deeper emotional connection.
The Sun (2010)
emphasize a connection
Heavy-handed though they may be, these thematic interjections nonetheless emphasize the connection between a thirst for knowledge and the damage tunnel vision can leave in its wake.
The Times Literary Supplement
However, the author decided to entwine both strands to emphasize the connection between the two main characters.
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Pragmatism emphasizes the connection between thought and action.
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Others have emphasized the connections between fantasy, daydreaming, dreams and hypnosis.
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An adaptive management approach to creating sustainable community policy and practice also emphasizes the connection and confluence of those elements.
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establish a connection
She seems extremely keen to establish a connection of trust with him.
The Times Literary Supplement
Once germinated, the plant has 6 days to find and establish a connection with its host plant before its resources run out.
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She was not a polished political speaker, but was able to establish a connection with the audience.
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When a user attempts to download the corrupted content, the server will fail to establish a connection due to the large volume of invalid information.
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The software then determines how to establish a connection.
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explore a connection
I wanted to explore that connection.
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Historians of science and musicologists have already begun to explore the connections between science and music.
The Times Literary Supplement
As an artist he has researched, studied and worked exploring the connection between food, rituals of eating and collective identity.
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He explores the connections between domestication, language, and cognition.
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The philosophy of chiropractic explores the connection between the body's inborn innate intelligence and its overall wellbeing.
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familial connections
The songs have themes of social and familial connections, environmental awareness, and individual awareness.
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This system improved the finances but not the prosperity of the country, and brought to the brilliant court itself foreign familial connections.
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This includes analyzing their date and place of birth; familial connections; teachers and students; religiosity; moral behaviour; literary output; their travels; as well as their date of death.
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fast connection
We had no problems getting a signal in houses, but the fast connection weakened in large office spaces.
Times, Sunday Times
On a fast connection it could take an hour.
Times, Sunday Times
The mind dizzies with the future possibilities of a fast connection and a hands-free microphone.
Times, Sunday Times
Scanners can generate this volume of data in a matter of seconds, making a fast connection desirable.
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They provide fast connection and call only at major stations.
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forge a connection
The narrative element, he believes, helps him forge a connection with each customer which intensifies the dining experience.
Times, Sunday Times
It touches on some interesting ideas and techniques but it's too nebulous to forge a connection with the audience.
Times, Sunday Times
Forging a connection with these guests through freewheeling conversations propelled him to develop new ways to communicate complex ideas more effectively.
Smithsonian Insider
genuine connection
It was a genuine connection and not something of convenience.
The Sun
This similarity of 'knowing ventures'; offers pastors and laypeople a genuine connection of respect.
Christianity Today
Thus scents, and soap and, in some cases, actual washing, were seen as destructive blocking agents that inhibit a true and genuine connection with the oneness.
Times, Sunday Times
They are compassionate, willing and wanting a genuine connection with people.
The Sun
Most of these dances seem to have a genuine connection to the region.
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high-speed connection
The study found that double-track high-speed connection on the same route would cost 3.6bn (4.4 times greater than for classic speed).
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One common complaint users shared towards the site regarded the typically extremely slow download speeds, which were known to go as slow as 10 kbit/s on a high-speed connection.
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Common complaints are sudden network 'outages', which cut off thousands of people at a time, high-speed connections that operate at a crawl and paltry responses from customer service departments.
Times, Sunday Times
highlight a connection
Nonetheless, early cottonseed oil and shortening companies went out of their way to highlight their connection to cotton.
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In addition to displaying items that highlight the connection between high couture and ballet, the exhibit connects ballet to a more recent fashion phenomenon: athleisure, or everyday athletic casual wear.
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Here the series are jumbled up, ostensibly to highlight the connections between them, though these aren't always obvious.
Times, Sunday Times
Disruption of the environment can also highlight the connection between areas of pollution that would normally be classified separately, such as those of water and air.
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historical connection
It's an attempt to capture the voices in the ether, the historical connection between people and the land that hosts them.
Times, Sunday Times
However, mere visual similarities do not prove a deeper connection; and demonstrating any historical connection has proven to be a slippery matter.
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The aim was not to show any historical connection but rather to show the similarity of style between two disparate cultures.
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Many of her novels have either a historical setting or a distinct historical connection, and often have split or dual narratives.
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Many of the surrounding villages have some historical connection to this war and quite a few ancient monuments can be seen here.
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immediate connection
This wasn't the movies; there was no instant recognition, no immediate connection.
Times, Sunday Times
With some we might make an immediate connection; with others, we may feel a huge distance.
Times, Sunday Times
We had an immediate connection and had fun talking about her part.
Times, Sunday Times
He was clever and articulate and there was an immediate connection.
The Sun
We had had amazing chemistry and an immediate connection.
Times, Sunday Times
instant connection
There was an instant connection between us.
The Sun (2014)
I spotted him across the bar and felt an instant connection with him.
The Sun (2013)
Over time, this kind of instant connection evolves into something more.
Christianity Today (2000)
intimate connection
A business of enduring worth generates an intimate connection between its management, shareholders, customers, suppliers and the surrounding community.
Times, Sunday Times
She was magnetic in it, commanding the stage yet making an intimate connection with the audience often through humour.
Times, Sunday Times
And that kind of deep, intimate connection cannot be provided by a simple fling.
The Sun
Her intimate connection with her fans was palpable from start to finish.
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Better yet, don't force people to work in teams all the time, or when such tight, intimate connections are not needed.
Times, Sunday Times
investigate a connection
Doctors are calling for larger trials to investigate the connection.
Times,Sunday Times
Recent research investigate the connection between network topology and the flow efficiency of the transportation.
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A recent body of work has investigated the connections between nominal terms and higher-order patterns, and consequently between nominal unification and higher-order pattern unification.
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The work investigates the connection between art and nature while also referencing the letter as the original component of poetry.
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After investigating the connection between the suspect and artists, the police were satisfied that blackmail was not involved.
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logical connection
For example, this may include compulsive rhyming or alliteration without apparent logical connection between words.
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The stories have no logical connection to the videos.
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Patients with witzelsucht can not make that logical connection in incongruity-resolution jokes, hence why they communicate through nonsense humor, mostly in the form of puns and non sequiturs.
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Names, places, values, expectations, along with linear narrative and logical connections all tumble in the general distrust of language and written history.
The Times Literary Supplement
Paradoxically, the heart may make logical connections that the head fails to register.
Times, Sunday Times
maintain a connection
The ability to differentiate and yet maintain the connection can be profoundly redemptive.
Christianity Today
Often quarried by the carvers themselves, art materials maintain a connection with the land and its former inhabitants.
The Times Literary Supplement
You are fooling yourself that you are friends in order to maintain a connection and feed a fantasy that she might, suddenly, admit to overwhelming feelings for you.
Times, Sunday Times
Under some conditions, a gate only needs enough power to connect briefly, then the receiving gate can provide enough power to maintain the connection.
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Others revel in their outsider status and maintain a connection to nature that resists societal pressures.
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make the connection
To make the connection between agriculture and food may be a bit too daring.
Lashford, Stephanie The Residue Report - an action plan for safer food (1988)
In a credit crunch, as money gets tighter, it should be easier to make the connection between spending and working.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
She hadn't made the connection from the photo in the newspapers and had only been on first-name terms with the two.
Peter Robinson AFTERMATH (2001)
meaningful connection
Can we have any sort of meaningful connection to artworks we know too well?
Times, Sunday Times
They recognized that when students make a personal and meaningful connection with a subject, then knowledge, skill, and growth naturally follow.
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For the artist, the body, as it was used in these performances, was the site of a meaningful connection between the mind, body and spirit.
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On one level, a piece of titillation, on another a comment on the difficulty achieving meaningful connection in an age of multi-media distractions.
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By itself this would not be sufficient to argue for a meaningful connection between the two events.
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mind-body connection
Our mind-body connection associates firm muscles with firm willpower.
The Sun
Proponents argue that the technique uses a mind-body connection to 'unblock' troublesome thoughts.
Times, Sunday Times
She demonstrated the direct biological underpinning of the mind-body connection.
Times, Sunday Times
A different kind of mind-body connection.
Times, Sunday Times
He has also claimed that it can help solve such problems as quantum gravity, the mind-body connection, and free will.
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nerve connection
A nerve connection to the muscles that link from my knees through my abdomen to my lower back has started to fire again.
Times, Sunday Times
Nicotine hits the development of nerve connections relaying signals to and from their ears.
The Sun
Will the nerve connections in our bodies start healing?
Times, Sunday Times
Be a dahling - oestrogens in the curried lentil dish dahl can help new nerve connections to form, boosting memory.
The Sun
Social interaction also stimulates nerve connections in this area.
Times, Sunday Times
network connection
The phone's operating system will be tweaked, but only so that it more accurately indicates the strength of its mobile network connection.
Times, Sunday Times
It also comes with a network connection.
Times, Sunday Times
The main challenges arise in two other areas: the network connection to the device server and the behavior of the device server.
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He needs network connection only when he stopped and can pull out his laptop from his bag.
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This means that, unlike distributed systems, this system requires reliable network connection, enough network bandwidth and enough processing power on server side.
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neural connection
These molecular distinctions will identify and indicate the strength of each neural connection.
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The brain, we now know, busily sculpts its garden of neural connections well into our 20s.
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Your brain will get smaller over the next decades, losing up to 15 per cent in volume and some neural connections and brain cells.
Times, Sunday Times
This involved driving an ice-pick-like instrument through the roof of the eye and sweeping it across the frontal lobe to scramble neural connections.
Times, Sunday Times
Such neural connections are not to be trusted.
Times, Sunday Times
obvious connection
There is no obvious connection between the injuries.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
There is an obvious connection between lack of motivation to exercise and general disarray in other areas of your life.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
We are using a fictional situation but the people will see the obvious connection.
The Sun (2007)
personal connection
His 'deep personal connection' did not prevent him from expecting higher standards.
Times, Sunday Times
Alongside this you may develop friendships that feed your need for personal connection.
Times, Sunday Times
Hoping that they won't topple from their human pyramids, you feel a personal connection that just isn't there when you watch lacrosse or badminton.
Times, Sunday Times
There are some things we feel more personal connection with, like our homes, that are harder to share.
Times, Sunday Times
It's always good to have a personal connection with a journey.
Times, Sunday Times
possible connection
Another possible connection between them and the adult world closed down.
Times, Sunday Times
Ten dancers in kilts search for possible connection or fulfilment.
Times, Sunday Times
Here was a possible connection.
The Times Literary Supplement
One study indicates a possible connection between titanium and yellow nail syndrome.
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Rick posits that there may be a possible connection.
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powerful connection
But even the banking crisis and subsequent deep recession of 2008-09 have not yet created a powerful connection between voter disillusionment with mainstream politicians and demands for electoral reform.
The Times Literary Supplement
We have a powerful connection and trust each other fully.
The Sun
For me it was such a powerful connection with him and the natural world.
Times, Sunday Times
We're often huddled around her holding her hand, thus sensing a powerful connection with her pure, innocent and angelic spirit.
Times, Sunday Times
In particular, it directs attention to the powerful connection between individual lives and the historical and socioeconomic context in which these lives unfold.
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profound connection
They commemorate a people’s profound connection to both the heavens and the earth.
Smithsonian Mag
It dates back to the 17th century and has echoes of a sentimental longing for homeland and a profound connection to a place and people.
Times, Sunday Times
It was a story that could not only transport him from the confines of the ward, but also establish a profound connection with it and him.
The Times Literary Supplement
psychic connection
You end up having an almost psychic connection.
The Sun
It's hard to know if it's due to a psychic connection or because twins generally spend so much time together.
The Sun
Using the remnants of their psychic connection, leftover from their time together during the villain uprising.
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Now's a good time to pursue any spiritual or psychic connections.
The Sun
Tarot's magickal name stems from her psychic connection to tarot cards, which allow her brief glimpses of important events, warnings, and connections to her loved ones despite distance.
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rail connections
Key rail connections from the east and through the centre will also be shut for upgrade works.
Times, Sunday Times
But bosses will now carry out feasibility studies, impact reports and work on road and rail connections.
The Sun
In the past few days, passengers have complained about drivers getting lost between stations, buses taking long routes, a lack of lavatories and missed rail connections.
Times, Sunday Times
The number of bathers increased as it became easier to reach the beach due to road and rail connections.
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By 1908, it was estimated that the total coal production of the county had exceeded 350,000 tons, despite the lack of any rail connections.
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re-establish a connection
The movement could have been just enough to jog some wiring and re-establish a connection.
Times, Sunday Times
Then those managers should go to their bosses and implore them to do more to re-establish the connection between team and fans.
Times, Sunday Times
Technologies which use hard handovers, usually have procedures which can re-establish the connection to the source cell if the connection to the target cell can not be made.
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reinforce a connection
To reinforce the connection between them, he orchestrates a nifty survey highlighting the development of deductive thinking that reaches a crescendo in the 17th century.
Christianity Today
Petrified log tables, botanical wallpapers and striking artwork reinforce the connection to the great outdoors.
Times,Sunday Times
Behavioral studies further reinforce the connection between numerical and spatial cognition.
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By reinforcing a connection to the familiar world of touch, the frames also scuttle the notion that abstraction belongs to a rarefied superstratum of experience.
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Traditionally, in hand-bound books, the endpaper was just a sheet of blank or ornamented paper physically masking and reinforcing the connection between the cover and the body of the book.
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reliable connection
The internet cafes had opened so the soldiers now had a more reliable connection to the rest of the world and their families.
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Using this amount of communications resources results in more reliable connection between transmitter and its receiver.
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Further, with 28 such connections (seven turns on a four-cornered post), a very reliable connection exists between the wire and the post.
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These low-cost tools are more time-consuming for making reliable connections, and can cause muscle fatigue when used for large numbers of connections.
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secure connection
The browser address on the page where you type in your payment details should change from 'http' to 'https' to indicate a secure connection.
Times, Sunday Times
Even if you have a secure connection, however, you are not necessarily safe.
Times, Sunday Times
Unsecured wi-fimakes this much easier: if your computer had a secure connection, fraudsters would not be able to see which websites you had visited.
Times, Sunday Times
Its title signalled a more secure connection to court circles than he had possessed.
The Times Literary Supplement
This contributes to a secure connection by guaranteeing strong contact between the shank and the spindle.
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sever a connection
They all expressed concern but stopped short of saying they would sever their connection with him.
Times,Sunday Times
His want of sympathy with home rule led him to sever his connection with political journalism.
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Her family cut their hair to sever a connection between themselves and her spirit.
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This success, however, has come at a high cost for the regions natural landscapes and ecosystems, as the levees sever the connection between the river and surrounding wetlands.
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The aim was to sever the connections between the frontal lobes of the brain and the thalamus.
Times, Sunday Times
spiritual connection
According to another source, he probably isn't dating her at all, but they do have a spiritual connection, if not a romantic one.
Times, Sunday Times
Apparently they have discovered a 'spiritual connection' through their shared passion of yoga.
The Sun
There's a spiritual connection with this place.
Times, Sunday Times
Some go to explore a deep spiritual connection with a sacred peak.
Times, Sunday Times
The best involves a monk who realises he has a spiritual connection with the doctor treating him.
The Sun
strengthen a connection
A marketing campaign may strengthen the connection, discouraging imitators and improving the chances of success in a legal contest, they say.
Times, Sunday Times
Those words provided a glimpse of the pride, disbelief and euphoria back home, helping to strengthen the connection and bond between the players and fans.
Times, Sunday Times
Exercise might help by strengthening the connections between brain cells, he added.
Times, Sunday Times
As you think about a snippet of song or speech, your brain may repeat a sequence that strengthens the connections associated with that phrase.
Times, Sunday Times
Brain activity reduces by up to a quarter during sleep, and sleep improves the flow of information between different parts of the brain by strengthening the connections between cells.
Times,Sunday Times
strong connection
I still have a strong connection to it; it gives me a comforting feeling.
Times, Sunday Times
The writers all have a strong connection to the subject.
The Times Literary Supplement
Luck has a strong connection to a photograph you take today.
The Sun
It would have a strong connection to a history shaped by an age of duopoly that has disappeared.
Times, Sunday Times
They have a strong connection to the world outside and think we have the same connection.
Times, Sunday Times
tangible connection
Now - briefly, accidentally and grotesquely - she has a more tangible connection with the world's dislocated underclass.
Times, Sunday Times
More broadly, the controversy raised the issue of why 'celebrities' are placed on boards of companies — especially in industries with which they appear to have no tangible connection.
Times, Sunday Times
That tremendously short-sighted move deprived the town of a rare tangible connection to one of the most important medical figures of all time.
The Times Literary Supplement
telephone connection
The island has no television, electricity for only two hours a day, sporadic telephone connection and one hour of unreliable dial-up internet.
Times, Sunday Times
It has no telephone connection.
Times,Sunday Times
We are a retired couple aged 74 and 80 who rely on our telephone connection after the phone box in the village was decommissioned.
Times, Sunday Times
In 1918, graphite industry was established. 1920 marked the first telephone connection.
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As a result subscribers had to wait for as long as five years to get a telephone connection.
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tenuous connection
No getting round it, it's a tenuous connection, blood-wise.
Times, Sunday Times
Several of these singers have a tenuous connection to opera and operatic training.
Globe and Mail
Sometimes these later choral odes seem to have only a tenuous connection with the plot, linked to the action only in their mood.
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Speak has since adopted new tactics, including targeting groups with only tenuous connections to the university.
Times, Sunday Times
It's time we did something to develop our own youngsters and not rely on tenuous connections to poach talent.
The Sun
vital connection
And it also emphasises the vital connection between the visual arts and the aural arts.
Times, Sunday Times
Gold argues that the key concepts of nineteenth-century energy physics retained a vital connection to the social and cultural milieu in which they were constructed.
The Times Literary Supplement
Making that vital connection with a prospective employer will undoubtedly soften the blow of losing to your business-school rivals at ping-pong.
Times, Sunday Times
The narrator speaks to the reader as a person whom she wishes and expects will bring the narrated story into vital connection with his or her own living experience.
Times, Sunday Times
It has become a vital connection for the region's workers, travelers and visitors, serving nearly 6,000 passengers a day.
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wire connection
The command information to turn on the thyristors therefore can not simply be sent using a wire connection it needs to be isolated.
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In purely mechanical plants, the levers operate the field devices, such as signals, directly via a mechanical rodding or wire connection.
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Older remote control systems use a direct wire connection to the pan/tilt head to manually control the cameras position at the top-end.
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A wired connection will enable streamed content to play sooner, at higher definitions and hopefully without stuttering.
Times, Sunday Times
It will also act as a speakerphone if you get an incoming call, and there's a 3.5mm socket for a wired connection (cable not included).
Times, Sunday Times
wireless connection
It was easy to use and always found a wireless connection.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Hotels that charge a couple of hundred quid a night for a room should throw in the wireless connection.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
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Chinese: 连接
Japanese: 関係
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