connect

Meaning

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. (slang) Clipping of connection.
2. (slang) Clipping of connection.

Hyphenated as

con‧nect

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kəˈnɛkt/

Etymology

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