connectverb/kəˈnɛkt/

• 1

  To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.

  • I think this piece connects to that piece over there.
• 2

  To join: to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to each other.

  • Both roads have the same name, but they don't connect: they're on opposite sides of the river, and there's no bridge there.
• 3

  To arrive at an intended target; to land.

  • When that roundhouse kick connected with his temple it sent him flying across the room.
• 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.

  • The new railroad will connect the northern part of the state to the southern part.
  • Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.[…]A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.
• 5

  To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to take one object and attach it to another.

  • I connected the printer to the computer, but I couldn't get it work.
• 6

  To join an electrical or telephone line to a circuit or network.

  • When the technician connects my house, I'll be able to access the internet.
  • Later on, when he had loosened up considerably, he told an amusing story that he said took place during a Sino-Soviet border flare-up in 1969. "We had a hot line between the Soviet Union and ourselves then," he said, "but it had already become cold because the Kremlin never used it. At the time of the Chen Pao border incident, however, Kosygin picked it up and called us. When our operator answered, he said, 'This is Premier Kosygin. I would like to speak to Chairman Mao.' The operator, completely on his own, said, 'You are a revisionist, and therefore I will not connect you.' So Kosygin said, 'Well, if you will not try to reach the Chairman, will you please connect me with Prime Minister Chou.' But the operator gave the same unauthorized reply and broke the connection."
• 7

  To associate; to establish a relation between.

  • I didn't connect my lost jewelry with the news of an area cat burglar until the police contacted me.
• 8

  To make a travel connection; to switch from one means of transport to another as part of the same trip.

  • I'm flying to London where I connect with a flight heading to Hungary.

connectnoun/kəˈnɛkt/

• 1

  slangClipping of connection.

  • My connects in Chicago are telling me all kinds of things. Nobody knows anything for sure except that Griffith is missing and money is missing.
  • The affidavit says the source wore a recording device during one conversation with the drug dealer, who said the officer "was doing this for big money and does runs for several connects in Bmore. Not just weed, but heroin as well, a few times coke."
• 2

  slangClipping of connection.

  • Even though I did not have a lot of connects in Silicon Valley, I was not concerned because I knew that Silicon Valley was not going to solve this problem.
  • Now that you look the part, hopefully, you have some connects because nothing looks worse than paying to get into a club!