connects

noun

A useful friend or associate.

A drug dealer.

(slang) Clipping of connection.

verb

(transitive, of an object) 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.

(transitive, of a person) To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to take one object and attach it to another.

To associate; to establish a relation between.

To join an electrical or telephone line to a circuit or network.

(intransitive, of two objects) To join: to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to each other.

(intransitive, of an object) To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.

To make a travel connection; to switch from one means of transport to another as part of the same trip.

(intransitive, of a blow) To arrive at an intended target; to land.

Roots

nectonect- · Latin · bind, tie

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