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connect (verb), connects; connected; connecting
1. To join two or more things together: James made an arrangement to connect an access to the phone company so he could communicate with callers.
2. To link to a power or water supply: Mark has arranged to be connected to the electric power company for his newly constructed house.
3. Etymology: from Latin connectere; from con-, "together" + nectere, "to bind".
2. To link to a power or water supply: Mark has arranged to be connected to the electric power company for his newly constructed house.
3. Etymology: from Latin connectere; from con-, "together" + nectere, "to bind".
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(Latin: of, pertaining to, or resembling hair; minute [hairlike] blood vessels that connect the arterioles and the venules)
(Latin: to bind; to link together; to tie together; close tightly and jointly)
(Latin: serere, a string, a thread; a row, succession, sequence; to join together, to connect, to combine)
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connect the dots (verb), connected the dots; connecting the dots
To learn or to understand how different things are related: The data about the results of the company's new policies was not known because no one had connected the dots until yesterday.
Connect the dots can be used to illustrate an ability to associate one idea with another one in order to find the "big picture", or important feature, in a mass of data.
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connect up together
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connect-, -connect-
Latin: to bind; to link together; to tie together; close tightly and jointly; in this unit.
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