Word forms: 3rd person singular presenttense connects, present participle connecting, past tense, past participle connected
1. verb
If something or someone connects one thing to another, or if one thing connectsto another, the two things are joined together.
You can connect the machine to your hi-fi. [VERB noun + to]
The traditional method is to enter the exchanges at night and connect the wires. [VERB noun]
Two cables connect to each corner of the plate. [VERB + to]
...a television camera connected to the radio telescope. [VERB-ed]
[Also VERB]
Synonyms: link, join, couple, attach More Synonyms of connect
2. verb
If a piece of equipment or a place is connectedto a source of power or water, it is joined to that source so that it has power or water.
These appliances should not be connected to power supplies. [beVERB-ed + to]
Ischia was now connected to the mainland water supply. [VERB-ed]
[Also VERB noun + to]
Connect up means the same as connect.
The shower only needs to be connected up to the cold water supply. [beV-ed P + to]
They turned the barricade into a potential death trap by connecting it up to themains. [VERB noun PARTICLE + to]
3. verb
If a telephone operator connects you, he or she enables you to speak to another person by telephone.
To call the police, dial 999 and the operator will connect you. [VERB noun]
He asked to be connected to the central switchboard. [beVERB-ed + to]
[Also VERB noun + to]
4. verb
If two things or places connect or if something connects them, they are joined and people or things can pass between them.
...the long hallway that connects the rooms. [VERB noun]
The fallopian tubes connect the ovaries with the uterus. [VERB noun + with]
His workshop connected with a small building in the garden. [VERB + with]
The two rooms have connecting doors. [VERB-ing]
[Also VERB]
5. verb
If one train or plane, for example, connectswith another, it arrives at a time which allows passengers to change to the other one in order to continue their journey.
...a train connecting with a ferry to Ireland. [VERB + with]
My connecting plane didn't depart for another six hours. [VERB-ing]
[Also VERB]
6. verb
If you connectto a particular plane or train, or if another plane or train connects you to it, you change to that plane or train from another one in order to continue yourjourney.
...business travellers wanting to connect to a long-haul flight. [VERB + to]
That will connect you with time to spare for the seven o'clock Concorde. [VERB noun]
[Also VERB noun + to]
7. verb
If you connect a person or thing with something, you realize that there is a link or relationship between them.
He didn't connect me with that embarrassing review I wrote seven years ago. [V n + with/to]
I wouldn't have connected the two things. [VERB noun]
8. verb
Something that connects a person or thing with something else shows or provides a link or relationship between them.
A search of Brady's house revealed nothing that could connect him with the robberies. [V n + with/to]
What connects them? [VERB noun]
9. reciprocal verb
If you connectwith someone, you feel a sense of agreement and familiarity with them because you have the same kind of ideas.
If you stand on stage and share your view of the world, people will connect withyou. [VERBwith noun]
[Also pl-n V]
Phrasal verbs:
See connect up
More Synonyms of connect
connect in British English
(kəˈnɛkt)
verb
1.
to link or be linked together; join; fasten
2. (transitive)
to relate or associate
I connect him with my childhood
3. (transitive)
to establish telephone communications with or between
4. (intransitive)
to be meaningful or meaningfully related
5. (intransitive)
(of two public vehicles, such as trains or buses) to have the arrival of one timed to occur just before the departure of the other, for the convenient transfer of passengers
6. (intransitive) informal
to hit, punch, kick, etc, solidly
7. (intransitive) US and Canadian informal
to be successful
8. (intransitive) slang
to find a source of drugs, esp illegal drugs
Derived forms
connectible (conˈnectible) or connectable (conˈnectable)
adjective
connector (conˈnector) or connecter (conˈnecter)
noun
Word origin
C17: from Latin connectere to bind together, from nectere to bind, tie
connect in American English
(kəˈnɛkt)
verb transitive
1.
to join or fasten (two things together, or one thing with or to another); link; couple
2.
to show or think of as related; associate
to connect germs with disease
3.
to provide with a circuit for communicating by telephone
4.
to plug into an electrical circuit
verb intransitive
5.
to join or be joined
6. US
to meet so that passengers can transfer promptly
said of trains, buses, etc.
7.
to be related in some way or in a proper or logical way
8. Informal
a.
to reach the thing aimed at
b.
to establish a rapport (with)
c. Sport
to hit a ball, target, etc. solidly
d. Sport
to be successful
connected on eighty percent of his shots
SIMILAR WORDS: join
Derived forms
connector (conˈnector)
noun or conˈnecter
Word origin
ME connecten < L connectere, to bind together < com-, together + nectere, to fasten
Examples of 'connect' in a sentence
connect
This has twice resulted in us missing connecting flights.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
The app connects people who have surplus food with their hungry neighbours.
The Sun (2017)
It will connect more than two million homes to full fibre broadband.
The Sun (2016)
Board games are one of the ways we connect.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The advice is to use the latter far more liberally in connecting linked sentences.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
That means no connecting flights and a short transfer once you touch down.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Different ways of connecting with people.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
If there are downsides, the most obvious is the time all this connecting takes up.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
He said:'The buildings are connected to the fabric of the lives of the people who lived there.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Two other manuscripts are connected with public buildings or administration.
The Times Literary Supplement (2014)
The wild world and the tame world are just connected as the sea and the land.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Two businessmen connected to racing were interviewed during the investigation.
The Sun (2011)
Were you connected with the business by which that fortune you speak of was originally made?
George Eliot Middlemarch (1872)
You connect better with people depending on how honest you are.
The Sun (2016)
The two may be connected in some instances but they are not the same.
Atkinson, Jacqueline M Coping with Stress at Work (1988)
All the contributors have been pastors or members of small churches or else closely connected with them.
Christianity Today (2000)
They like the sales pitch to come from a person connected with the item.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
What happens if you miss a connecting train?
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
It hath connected calls a thousand times.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Where do you make time to connect with each other?
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Each connects with the corners of four sheets of glass.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The connecting link is a general point of view.
Dyson, Freeman Infinite in All Directions (1989)
The printed circuit consists of metal strips which connect one component to another.
Samways, B. & Byrne-Jones, T. Computers Basic Facts (1983)
Luck is connected to a building rich in family history.
The Sun (2009)
My phone keeps me connected to the world.
The Sun (2013)
It is telling that the emblematic elephants in each story are connected with horrifying deaths.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Was it law business connected with the property?
Elizabeth Gaskell North and South (1855)
Why are people going to Turkey and then getting a connecting flight?
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Two undersea pipelines connecting Britain to continental suppliers have also been flowing at near capacity.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The baggage manager says 300 bags that have missed connecting flights are lying in a reclaim hall.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
You can use the site to see the profiles of the people around you, share photos and connect with friends.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
How we share and connect?
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
In other languages
connect
British English: connect VERB
If something or someone connects one thing to another, or if one thing connects to another, the two things are joined together.