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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".
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(Greek: joint, pertaining to the joints or connecting bone structures)
(Latin: rein, bridle, a bit (as in a horses mouth); by extension, a medical term for a connecting fold of membrane in the body)
(Greek: narrow passage or ridge; narrow passage or strip [especially of bodily tissue] connecting two larger entities)
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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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connecting rod (s) (noun), connecting rods (pl)
A metal bar that is joined to two or more moving parts in a machine: The connecting rod transmits motion from the piston to the crankshaft in internal-combustion engines where the fuel is burned within the cylinders.
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