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Connection   /kənˈɛkʃən/   Listen
Connection

noun
1.
A relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it).  Synonyms: connectedness, connexion.
2.
The state of being connected.  Synonyms: connectedness, link.
3.
An instrumentality that connects.  Synonyms: connecter, connective, connector, connexion.  "He didn't have the right connector between the amplifier and the speakers"
4.
(usually plural) a person who is influential and to whom you are connected in some way (as by family or friendship).
5.
The process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination.  Synonyms: association, connexion.
6.
A connecting shape.  Synonyms: connexion, link.
7.
A supplier (especially of narcotics).
8.
Shifting from one form of transportation to another.  Synonym: connexion.
9.
The act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication).  Synonyms: connexion, joining.  "There was a connection via the internet"



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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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