Your ShelfYour Projects
Webster's Dictionary (1865)

2 entries under this word

Connect

Con-nēct', v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. CONNECTED; p. pr. & vb. n. CONNECTING.] [Lat. connectere, connexum, from con and nectere, nexum, to bind; It. connectere.] To knit, link, or fasten together, as by something intervening, or by weaving, winding, or twining; hence, to establish a bond, relation, or association between.

Connect natural events with moral or historical causes. Whewell.

Con-nĕct', v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. To become joined, united, or coherent; to have a close relation; as, one line of railroad connects regularly with another; one argument connects with another.