connect
To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.
Verb 4 meanings
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.”
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.”
To arrive at an intended target; to land.
“When that roundhouse kick connected with his temple it sent him flying across the room.”
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.”
Etymology
From Latin connectere (“fasten together”), from con- (“together”) + nectere (“bind”), which is cognate with English knot and English knit.
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CONNECT at a glance
CONNECT has 7 letters and scores 11 points in Scrabble (C 3 + O 1 + N 1 + N 1 + E 1 + C 3 + T 1) and 15 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,674 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with connect
All rhymesOne letter away
- CONFECT14
- CONJECT18
- CONVECT14
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