Connecting

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  connecting \connecting\ adj.
     1. having a connection; as, connecting rooms.
        [WordNet 1.5]
  
     2. forming a connection; as, a connecting corridor.
        [PJC]


  
     3. (Grammar) syntactically connecting sentences or elements
        of a sentence.
  
     Syn: copulative.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Connect \Con*nect"\ (k[o^]n*n[e^]kt"), 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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              He fills, he bounds, connects and equals all.
                                                    --Pope.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              A man must see the connection of each intermediate
              idea with those that it connects before he can use
              it in a syllogism.                    --Locke.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To associate (a person or thing, or one's self) with
        another person, thing, business, or affair.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. To establish a communication link; -- used with with; as,
        his telephone didn't answer, so I connected with him by
        email.
        [PJC]
  
     4. To electronically or mechanically link (a device) to
        another device, or to link a device to a common
        communication line; -- used with with; as, the installer
        connected our telephones on Monday; I connected my VCR to
        the TV set by myself; the plumber connected a shut-off
        valve to my gas line.
        [PJC]
  
     {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.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  connecting \connecting\ n.
     the act of bringing two things into contact.
  
     Syn: joining, connection, connexion.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  connecting \connecting\ a.
     forming a connection; as, a connecting flight.
  
     Syn: joining.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  connecting
       adj 1: having a connection; "connecting rooms"
       2: syntactically connecting sentences or elements of a
          sentence; "`and' is a copulative conjunction" [syn: {copulative}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  37 Moby Thesaurus words for "connecting":
     adjacent, adjoining, binding, bordering, coalescent, coalescing,
     combinative, combinatory, combining, communicating, conjunctival,
     conjunctive, connectional, connective, conterminous, contiguous,
     copulative, coterminous, end to end, endways, endwise,
     face to face, immediate, intercommunicating, joined, joining,
     juxtaposed, juxtapositional, juxtapositive, linking, meeting,
     neighbor, neighboring, next, unific, unifying, uniting