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hexamethylmelamine


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connect (iou)



connect verb. LME.
[Latin connectere, formed as CON- + nectere bind, fasten.]
I. verb intrans. Usu. foll. by with.
Be united physically, make contact, join on; be related or associated; form a logical sequence. (rare before 18.) LME.
A. Tucker One all-comprehensive plan; wherein..all the parts connect with one another. F. Tuohy For her the word connected still with guilt.
b. Of a train, aeroplane, etc.: have its arrival timed to allow passengers in it to transfer to another (specified) train etc. M19.
F. L. Olmsted The train was advertised to connect here with a steamboat for Norfolk.
c. Hit the target (with a blow, kick, etc.). colloq. E20.
d. Make a mental or practical connection; realize interconnections. E20.
E. M. Forster Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.
e. Make contact with a person, esp. for the purpose of buying drugs: cf. CONNECTION 9. slang (orig. US). E20.
f. Succeed in communicating with the audience or reader; be meaningful. M20.
Listener A magazine programme..has probably done its job if one of its items connects.
II. verb trans.
Join, link, fasten together, (two things, one thing to or with another); link in sequence or coherence. M16.
S. Johnson The authour connects his reasons well. James Mill The Conjunctions are distinguished from the Prepositions by connecting Predications. Day Lewis The ponds..were connected one to another by a tiny..stream. L. Deighton The super highway that connects Reggio to Naples.
Associate in occurrence or action. Usu. in pass., be to do with. E18.
J. Bentham A very busy amateur in everything that is in any way connected with mechanics. W. F. Harvey For some time there was nothing to connect me with the crime.
b. Associate mentally. M18.
D. H. Lawrence It did not occur to her to connect the train's moving on with the sound of the trumpet.
Unite (a person) with another or others by relationship or Marriage, by common interests, etc. Usu. in pass. or refl. M18.
Establish telephone communication for (a person) (with). E20.
connectable adjective = connectible L19.
connecti'bility noun the quality of being connectible E20.
connectible adjective able to be connected M18.
connecting ppl adjective serving to connect or join (
connecting-rod: transmitting motion from the piston to the crankpin etc. in an engine) L17.