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Connection   /kənˈɛkʃən/   Listen
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Connection  n.  
1.
The act of connecting, or the state of being connected; the act or process of bringing two things into contact; junction; union; as, the connection between church and state is inescapable; the connection of pipes of different diameters requires an adapter.
Synonyms: link, connectedness.
2.
That which connects or joins together; bond; tie.
3.
Any relationship between things or events; association; alliance; as, a causal connection between interest rates and stock prices.
Synonyms: relation. "He (Algazel) denied the possibility of a known connection between cause and effect." "The eternal and inseparable connection between virtue and happiness." "Any sort of connection which is perceived or imagined between two or more things."
4.
A relation; esp. a person connected with another by marriage rather than by blood; used in a loose and indefinite, and sometimes a comprehensive, sense.
5.
The persons or things that are connected; as, a business connection; the Methodist connection. "Men elevated by powerful connection." "At the head of a strong parliamentary connection." "Whose names, forces, connections, and characters were perfectly known to him."
6.
Something that connects other objects.
Synonyms: connexion, connector, connecter, connective.
7.
(usually plural) an acquaintance or acquaintances who are influential or in a position of power and to whom you are connected in some way (as by family or friendship); as, he has powerful connections.
8.
A communications channel; as, my cell phone had a bad connection.
9.
(Transportation) A vehicle in which one may continue a journey after debarking from another vehicle; the departing vehicle of a connection 9; as, my connection leaves four hours after my arrival; I missed my connection. Note: A connection may be more specifically referred to as a connecting flight, a connecting train, etc.
10.
(Transportation) The scheduled arrival of one vehicle and departure of a second, sufficiently close in time and place to allow the departing vehicle serve as a means of continuing a journey begun or continued in the first vehicle; as, we can get a connection at Newark to continue on to Paris; most commonly used of airplanes, trains, and buses arriving and departing at the same terminal.
11.
(Transportation) The transfer of a passenger from one vehicle to another to continue a journey; as, the connection was made in Copenhagen; most commonly of scheduled transportation on common carriers.
12.
(Commerce) A vendor who can supply desired materials at a favorable price, or under conditions when other sources are unavailable; as, to get a bargain from one's connection in the jewelry trade; to have connections for the purchase of marijuana; often used in the pl..
13.
(Psychol.) The process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination.
Synonyms: association, connection, connexion.
In this connection, in connection with this subject. Note: (A phrase objected to by some writers.) Note: This word was formerly written, as by Milton, with x instead of t in the termination, connexion, and the same thing is true of the kindred words inflexion, reflexion, and the like. But the general usage at present is to spell them connection, inflection, reflection, etc.
Synonyms: Union; coherence; continuity; junction; association; dependence; intercourse; commerce; communication; affinity; relationship.





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"Connection" Quotes from Famous Books



... her name began to be mentioned in connection with Parson Dorrance's, by the busy tongues which are always in motion in small villages. It was not long, moreover, before a thought and a hope, in which both these names were allied, crept into ...
— Mercy Philbrick's Choice • Helen Hunt Jackson
... enterprise. Says Mr. Barrett: "For want of other immediate employment, and in the same spirit which had heretofore actuated him, Abraham Lincoln entered upon the duties of a clerk, having an eye to both branches of his employer's business. This connection continued for nearly a year, all duties of his position being faithfully performed." It was to this year's humble but honorable service of young Lincoln that Mr. Douglas tauntingly alluded in one of his speeches during the canvass of ...
— The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln • Francis Fisher Browne
... nature. His passage through the trees is almost a flight. Indeed, the flying squirrel has little or no advantage over him, and in speed and nimbleness cannot compare with him at all. If he miss his footing and fall, he is sure to catch on the next branch; if the connection be broken, he leaps recklessly for the nearest spray or limb, and secures his hold, even if it be by the aid ...
— Winter Sunshine • John Burroughs
... flirtations. She would have disdained to deny to a new lover the knowledge of her past, and the semiavowals, so common to women, would have seemed to her a cowardice still worse. She had not essayed to hide from Maitland what connection she had broken off for him, and it was upon one of those phrases, in which she spoke of it openly, that Madame Gorka's ...
— Cosmopolis, Complete • Paul Bourget
... half a ton to one ton of fertilizer to the acre should be applied in the same manner on the surface, and harrowed in at the last preparation of the soil. Of late many have been using fish guano, which is the scrap or flesh and bone refuse from the Menhaden oil-rendering establishments, in connection with potash salts, with excellent results; in fact Captain Edward Hawkins, of Jamesport, one of our most successful growers, uses nothing else, applying one ton of each to the acre. Very good cauliflowers have been ...
— The Cauliflower • A. A. Crozier


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