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{ "term": "connect", "partOfSpeech": "verb", "ox3000": true, "cefr": "a2", "verbForms": { "presentSimple": { "iYouWeThey": "connect", "heSheIt": "connects" }, "pastSimple": "connected", "pastParticiple": "connected", "ingForm": "connecting" }, "definitions": [ { "senseNumber": 1, "definition": "to join together two or more things; to be joined together", "sensetop": "connect A and Bconnect A to Bconnect A with B", "cefr": "a2", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "The towns are connected by train and bus services.", "contextForm": "connect A and B" }, { "text": "The island is connected to the mainland by a bridge.", "contextForm": "connect A to B" }, { "text": "The canal was built to connect Sheffield with the Humber estuary.", "contextForm": "connect A with B" }, { "text": "The rooms on this floor connect." }, { "text": "a connecting door *(= one that connects two rooms)*" }, { "text": "A corridor connects his office with the main building." }, { "text": "The canal was built to connect the city with the port." }, { "text": "The two bedrooms connect." }, { "text": "There is a connecting door between the two bedrooms." }, { "text": "There were buses that connected the two villages not only to each other but also with the city." } ], "collocations": { "adverb": ["directly", "physically", "remotely"], "preposition": ["to", "with"] } }, { "senseNumber": 2, "definition": "to join something to the main supply of electricity, gas, water, etc. or to another piece of equipment", "sensetop": "connect somethingconnect something to something", "cefr": "a2", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "We're waiting for the broadband to be connected.", "contextForm": "connect something" }, { "text": "First connect the printer to the computer.", "contextForm": "connect something to something" }, { "text": "Connect the machine to the power supply." }, { "text": "Downstairs toilets were connected directly to the drains." } ], "topics": ["Engineering"], "collocations": { "adverb": ["directly", "physically", "remotely"], "preposition": ["to", "with"] } }, { "senseNumber": 3, "definition": "to join a computer or a mobile device to the internet or to a computer network", "sensetop": "connect to somethingconnect somethingconnect something to something", "cefr": "a2", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "The device can be hooked up to a mobile phone to connect wirelessly." }, { "text": "Click ‘Continue’ to **connect to the internet**.", "contextForm": "connect to something" }, { "text": "My phone keeps refusing to connect to the Wi-Fi." }, { "text": "The system harnesses the processing power of many computers connected by a high-speed network.", "contextForm": "connect something" }, { "text": "Simply connect your device to the camera's Wi-Fi signal.", "contextForm": "connect something to something" }, { "text": "Many guests leave their laptops **connected to the** hotel **network** when they're not in their rooms." } ], "topics": ["Phones, email and the internet", "Computers"], "collocations": { "adverb": ["directly", "physically", "remotely"], "preposition": ["to", "with"] } }, { "senseNumber": 4, "definition": "to notice or make a link between people, things, events, etc.", "sensetop": "connect A and Bconnect A with/to B", "cefr": "b1", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "I was surprised to hear them mentioned together: I had never connected them before.", "contextForm": "connect A and B" }, { "text": "I found it hard to connect the two ideas in my mind." }, { "text": "There was nothing to connect him with the crime.", "contextForm": "connect A with/to B" }, { "text": "He made a statement connecting the terrorist group to the attack." } ], "collocations": { "adverb": ["closely", "inextricably", "intimately"], "preposition": ["to", "with"] } }, { "senseNumber": 5, "definition": "to arrive just before another one leaves so that passengers can change from one to the other", "sensetop": "connect (with something)", "examples": [ { "text": "His flight to Amsterdam connects with an afternoon flight to New York." }, { "text": "There's a connecting flight at noon." } ] }, { "senseNumber": 6, "definition": "to put somebody in contact by phone", "sensetop": "connect somebody (to somebody/something)", "examples": [ { "text": "After a long wait I was connected to customer services." } ], "collocations": { "adverb": ["directly", "physically", "remotely"], "preposition": ["to", "with"] } }, { "senseNumber": 7, "definition": "to form a good relationship with somebody so that you like and understand each other", "sensetop": "connect (with somebody)", "examples": [ { "text": "They met a couple of times but they didn't really connect." } ] }, { "senseNumber": 8, "definition": "to hit somebody/something", "sensetop": "connect (with somebody/something)", "labels": "(informal)", "examples": [ { "text": "The blow connected and she felt a surge of pain." } ] } ], "pronunciations": { "uk": [ { "pronunciation": "/kəˈnekt/", "audio": "xc/connect/xconnect__gb_1.mp3" }, { "pronunciation": "/kəˈnekts/", "audio": "xc/connect/xconnects__gb_1.mp3" }, { "pronunciation": "/kəˈnektɪd/", "audio": "xc/connect/xconnected__gb_2.mp3" }, { "pronunciation": "/kəˈnektɪŋ/", "audio": "xc/connect/xconnecting__gb_1.mp3" } ], "us": [ { "pronunciation": "/kəˈnekt/", "audio": "xc/connect/xconnect__us_1.mp3" }, { "pronunciation": "/kəˈnekts/", "audio": "xc/connect/xconnects__us_1.mp3" }, { "pronunciation": "/kəˈnektɪd/", "audio": "xc/connect/xconnected__us_2.mp3" }, { "pronunciation": "/kəˈnektɪŋ/", "audio": "xc/connect/xconnecting__us_1.mp3" } ] }, "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in the sense ‘be united physically’; rare before the 18th cent.): from Latin connectere, from con- ‘together’ + nectere ‘bind’." }