connect
/kəˈnɛkt/ verbo B1En español: conectar, empalmar
- To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object. · I think this piece connects to that piece over there.
- To join: to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to each other. · Both roads have the same name, but they don't connect: they're on opposite sides of the river, and there's no bridge there.
- To arrive at an intended target; to land. · When that roundhouse kick connected with his temple it sent him flying across the room.
- To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to be a link between two objects, thereby attaching them to each other. · The new railroad will connect the northern part of the state to the southern part.
- To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to take one object and attach it to another. · I connected the printer to the computer, but I couldn't get it work.
- To join an electrical or telephone line to a circuit or network. · When the technician connects my house, I'll be able to access the internet.
- To associate; to establish a relation between. · I didn't connect my lost jewelry with the news of an area cat burglar until the police contacted me.
- To make a travel connection; to switch from one means of transport to another as part of the same trip. · I'm flying to London where I connect with a flight heading to Hungary.
Plural connect · He/she/it connects · Pasado connected · Participio pasado connected · Forma en -ing connecting
Formas del verbo
- Forma base
- connect
- He/she/it
- connects
- Pasado
- connected
- Participio pasado
- connected
- Forma en -ing
- connecting
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
De la biblioteca
You will be censured, slighted, and despised, by everyone connected with him.
You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique things are very often connected not with the larger but with the smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for doubt whether any positive crime has been committed.
There would be no reason in his eyes why the finding of the ring should be connected with the murder.
I telegraphed to the head of the police at Cleveland, limiting my enquiry to the circumstances connected with the marriage of Enoch Drebber.
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