connect

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To join or fasten together.
2. v. To associate or consider as related: no reason to connect the two events. See Synonyms at join.
3. v. 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.
4. v. To plug in (an electrical cord or device) to an outlet.
5. v. To become joined or united: two streams connecting to form a river.
6. v. To be scheduled so as to provide continuing service, as between airplanes or buses.
7. v. To establish a rapport or relationship; relate: The candidate failed to connect with the voters.
8. v. Sports To hit or play a ball successfully: The batter connected for a home run.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To bind or fasten together; join or unite; conjoin; combine; associate closely: as, to connect ideas; the strait of Gibraltar connects the Mediterranean with the Atlantic.
2. To join, unite, or cohere.
3. To make connection in time and place (with another train or boat): as, the boat connects with the train at Fall River.

Wiktionary

1. v. To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.
2. v. To join: to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to each other.
3. v. 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.
4. v. To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to take one object and attach it to another.
5. v. To join an electrical or telephone line to a circuit or network.
6. v. To associate.
7. v. To make a travel connection; to switch from one means of transport to another as part of the same trip.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. 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.
2. v. To associate (a person or thing, or one's self) with another person, thing, business, or affair.
3. v. To establish a communication link; -- used with with.
4. v. To electronically or mechanically link (a device) to another device, or to link a device to a common communication line; -- used with with.
5. v. To join, unite, or cohere; to have a close relation.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. land on or hit solidly
2. v. be or become joined or united or linked
3. v. join for the purpose of communication
4. v. establish a rapport or relationship
5. v. plug into an outlet
6. v. join by means of communication equipment
7. v. make a logical or causal connection
8. v. hit or play a ball successfully
9. v. connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces
10. v. be scheduled so as to provide continuing service, as in transportation
11. v. establish communication with someone