Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Connecting"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Connect \Con*nect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Connected}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Connecting}>.] [L. connectere, -nexum; con- + nectere
to bind. See {Annex}.]
1. To join, or fasten together, as by something intervening;
to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to
establish a bond or relation between.
He fills, he bounds, connects and equals all.
--Pope.
A man must see the connection of each intermediate
idea with those that it connects before he can use
it in a syllogism. --Locke.
2. To associate (a person or thing, or one's self) with
another person, thing, business, or affair.
{Connecting rod} (Mach.), a rod or bar joined to, and
connecting, two or more moving parts; esp. a rod
connecting a crank wrist with a beam, crosshead, piston
rod, or piston, as in a steam engine.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
connecting
adj 1: having a connection; "connecting rooms"
2: (grammar) syntactically connecting sentences or elements of
a sentence; "`and' is a copulative conjunction" [syn: {copulative}]
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