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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



... greeted by his sister-in-law. It was morbid, and, to her alarm, Margaret fancied that she could trace the growth of morbidity back in Helen's life for nearly four years. The flight from Oniton; the unbalanced patronage of the Basts; the explosion of grief up on the Downs—all connected with Paul, an insignificant boy whose lips had kissed hers for a fraction of time. Margaret and Mrs. Wilcox had feared that they might kiss again. Foolishly: the real danger was reaction. Reaction against the Wilcoxes had eaten into her life until she was scarcely ...
— Howards End • E. M. Forster
... and down the river, there being here a long reach, having almost the appearance of a lake, the river above and below not being more than from a mile to a mile and a half in width. Immediately opposite Tarrytown is the town of Nyach, which is connected with Tarrytown by a steam ferry. In passing from Tarrytown to Mr. Bartlett's house, we drove through the Sleepy Hollow, the scene of one of Washington Irving's tales, and passed the old Dutch church, which is ...
— First Impressions of the New World - On Two Travellers from the Old in the Autumn of 1858 • Isabella Strange Trotter
... reason that the question of 'the government of every man over himself,' and the predominance of powers, and the wrestling of them in 'the little state of man'—the question as to which is 'nobler'—comes to be connected with the question of civil government so closely. That is the reason that this doctrine of virtue and state comes to us conjoined; that is the reason that we find this question of the consulship, and the question of heroism and personal greatness, ...
— The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded • Delia Bacon
... in some degree accounts for the tentative quality in so much of the theory of translation. Translation fills too large a place, is too closely connected with the whole course of literary development, to be disposed of easily. As each succeeding period has revealed new fashions in literature, new avenues of approach to the reader, there have been new translations and the theorist has ...
— Early Theories of Translation • Flora Ross Amos
... of suspense—the hour when she had waited at the hospital during his operation—as a time of comparative peace. She had been able then, she remembered, to sit still, to pursue, if not a train of thought, at least a set of connected images; but now her whole spirit seemed to be seething with a sort of poison that made her muscles jerk and start and her mind dart and faint. Then she had foreseen loss through the fate common to humanity; now she foresaw it through the action of her own tyrannical contempt ...
— The Happiest Time of Their Lives • Alice Duer Miller


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