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Connective   /kənˈɛktɪv/   Listen
Connective

adjective
1.
Connecting or tending to connect.  "Connective tissue in animals" , "Conjunctive tissue in plants"
noun
1.
An uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences.  Synonyms: conjunction, conjunctive, continuative.
2.
An instrumentality that connects.  Synonyms: connecter, connection, connector, connexion.  "He didn't have the right connector between the amplifier and the speakers"



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... eye to the judgment of the many, it would have been necessary to apologize for its literal exactness. Had I been anxious to gratify false taste with respect to composition, I should doubtless have attended less to the precise meaning of the original, have omitted almost all connective Particles, have divided long periods into a number of short ones, and branched out the strong and deep river of Plato's language into smooth-gliding, shallow, and feeble streams; but as the present work was composed with the ...
— Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato • Thomas Taylor

... to distinguish between dementia, idiocy, cretinism, and an imitation of these forms, a minute somatic examination is necessary. It should be remarked that in idiots, imbeciles, and cretins we generally find hypertrophy of the connective tissues, earthen hue, scanty beard, stenocrotaphy, malformations of the skull, ears, teeth, face, and especially jaws, and there are invariably anomalies in the field of vision, lessened sensibility ...
— Criminal Man - According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso • Gina Lombroso-Ferrero

... word there does not tell where; it is put before was to let the subject follow. There is frequently so used and is then called an independent adverb. Find in the first sentence three adjective clauses. What connects each to man? What other office has this connective? How are these adjective clauses connected with one another? What is the office of the dependent clause in the next sentence? If this clause were placed after its principal clause, would the comma be needed? Are the clauses ...
— Graded Lessons in English • Alonzo Reed and Brainerd Kellogg

... prae and ponere, to put before: a connective word expressing a relation of meaning between a noun or ...
— New Word-Analysis - Or, School Etymology of English Derivative Words • William Swinton

... small quantities at a time, the liver may become the seat of serious changes. There may be a great increase of fat deposited in the cells, producing what is called 'fatty liver,' or it may lead to a great increase of connective tissue (membrane) between the cells, and surrounding the blood-vessels. This newly-developed connective tissue gradually contracts, and in so doing crushes the cells and obstructs the blood-vessels, making the organ much smaller than natural, and causing the surface to be covered with little ...
— Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why - What Medical Writers Say • Martha M. Allen


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