Connect

Definition

connect /kǝ'nekt/ v ၁။ ~ (sth) (up) (to/with sth) ဆက္သည္။ ဆက္သြယ္သည္။ The two towns are connected by an excellent bus service. ❍ A railway connects Oxford and/with Reading. ❍ Connect the fridge (up) to the electricity supply. ❍ The thigh-bone is connected to the hip-bone. ❍ The wires connect (up) under the floor. ❍ Where does the stove connect with the gas-pipe? ❍ The two rooms have a connecting door (ie so that you can go straight from one room into the other). ၂။ (က) ~ sb (with sb/sth) (usu passive) ဆက္စပ္သည္။ ဆက္ႏႊယ္ သည္။ ပတ္သက္သည္။ We're connected by marriage. ❍ a man connected with known criminals ❍ She is connected with a noble family. See also WELL-CONNECTED (ခ) ~ sb/sth (with sb/sth) ဆက္စပ္ေတြးသည္။ I was surprised to hear them mentioned together: I've never connected them before. ❍ People connect Vienna with waltzes and coffee-houses. ၃။ ~ (with sth) (ခရီးစဥ္)ယာဥ္ ခ်ိတ္ဆက္မိသည္။ These two planes connect. ❍ There's a connecting flight at midday. ❍ The 9.00 am train from London connects with the 12.05 pm from Crewe. ၄။ ~ sb (with sb) တစ္ဦးႏွင့္တစ္ဦး တယ္လီဖုန္းေျပာႏိုင္ရန္ ခ်ိတ္ဆက္ေပးသည္။ Hold on, I'll just connect you (with Miss Jones). ၅။ ~ (with sb/sth) ( infml ) ထိသည္။ I took a wild swing which failed to connect (with his chin). ❏ connecting-rod n (အင္ဂ်င္တြင္ ပစၥတင္ႏွင့္က႐ိုင္းရွပ္ကို ဆက္ေပးသည့္)ေရာ့တံ။

Examples

1. She carefully connected the two wires.
2. The boxes are connected by lines that show their mathematical relationships.
3. [connect something to/with something] : It has speakers inside
4. which you can connect to your sound card.
5. [connect to/with] : This cable connects to the back of the TV.
6. A ferry connects the mainland and the island.
7. [connect something to/with something] : The upper town is connected to the lower town by cable car.
8. Check that your printer is connected and the power is turned on.
9. [be connected to something] : We aren’t connected to the municipal water supply.
10. Please wait
11. we are trying to connect you.
12. [connect someone to/with something] : The operator connected her to the police station.
13. [connect to/with] : Your modem enables you to connect to the Internet.
14. There was no evidence then to connect smoking and lung cancer.
15. [connect someone with something] : The public connects him with sport not politics.
16. [connect someone to something] : There is no evidence to connect him to the murder.
17. This train connects with the cross-Channel ferry at Dover.
18. His first punch didn’t connect.
19. [connect with] : Her foot connected with the ball.
20. As soon as we met
21. we connected.
22. [connect with] : Younger audiences didn’t connect with the film.