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The best way to connect is to forget business and concentrate on the person you're speaking with, she advises.

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  1. transitive verb To join or fasten together.
  2. transitive verb To associate or consider as related: no reason to connect the two events. See Synonyms at join.
  3. transitive verb To join to or by means of a communications circuit: Please connect me to the number in San Diego. Her computer is connected to the Internet.
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  • The best way to connect is to forget business and concentrate on the person you're speaking with, she advises. —  Long Island Business News Products
  • When I connect, the title window indicates that Remote, Koi Pond, and Google Earth are being backed up, but they do not appear anywhere else in iTunes. —  Discussions: Message List - root
  • But the documentation I am reading says that Windows should now be able to connect, and that is not happening. —  LinuxQuestions.org
  • A message at the bottom of your screen tells you your computer is trying to connect, and trying and trying. —  Hispanic Business Magazine
  • If the mobile operator does not specify an alternate SMTP server name and if the Windows Mobile 6. 1-based device does not connect, the e-mail account is corrupted and cannot send e-mail messages. —  MoDaCo WinMo News
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English connecten, from Latin cōnectere, connectere : cō-, com-, com- + nectere, to bind; see ned- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French connecter = Spanish conectar = Italian connettere, from Latin connectere, usually cōnectere, past participle connexus, cōnexus, bind together, connect, from com-, co-, together, + nectere, past participle nexus, bind, tie, = Sanskrit √ nah, bind: see nexus.
 

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