connected
/kəˈnɛktɪd/ · verb
Meaning
- (of an object) To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.
- (of two objects) To join: to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to each other.
- (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.
- (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 join an electrical or telephone line to a circuit or network.
- To associate; to establish a relation between.
- (usually with "well-"): Having favorable rapport with a powerful entity.
- Having relationships; involved with others.
- Involved with organized crime, specifically someone not (yet) working for a crime organization, but referred to as a "friend" by made guys/wise guys inside the organization.
- Intimate; Having bonds of affection.
- (of a topological space) That cannot be partitioned into two nonempty open sets.
- (of a graph) Having a path, either directed or undirected, connecting every pair of vertices.
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