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/kəˈnɛkʃ(ə)n/
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kəˈnɛkʃən
Noun
The act of connecting.
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Forster employs personal relations to emphasize the importance of connection and mutual understanding
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At the town of Mendes, in the principal temple, there was a living male goat, with which, if the statement of Herodotus is to be accepted, naked female worshippers actually had carnal intercourse. Male worshippers similarly had connexion with she-goats.
The act of connecting. Coherence; lack of disjointedness.
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The act of connecting. Sexual intercourse.
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The exact nature of the relations between the boy-wife and his protector are doubtful; they certainly have connection, but the natives repudiate with horror and disgust the idea of sodomy.
The point at which two or more things are connected.
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the leak formed at the connection of the pipe and the boiler
The point at which two or more things are connected. A transfer from one transportation vehicle to another in scheduled transportation service.
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The bus was late so he missed his connection at Penn Station and had to wait six hours for the next train.
It is kept super-clean by helpful staff who still find the time to help customers with tight connections.
A physical link between two things or places.
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the isthmus of Panama is the connection between North and South America
A physical link between two things or places. An established communications or transportation link.
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computers linked by a network connection
I was talking to him, but there was lightning and we lost the connection.
A relationship or association. A causal relationship between two phenomena; cause and effect.
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the connection between overeating and obesity
My headache has no connection with me going out last night.
A relationship or association. A relationship between people or groups of people.
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These two seemed to have a closer relationship than I knew. What's their connection?
A relationship or association. A feeling of mutual understanding and ease of communication between two or more people.
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As we were the only people in the room to laugh at the joke, I felt a connection between us.
A relationship or association. A contextual relationship; the commonality between two or more things.
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in this connection
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A spokesman for Lothian and Borders Police said: "We can confirm that a 15-year-old boy has been arrested and charged in connection with the murder of Jodi Jones. A 45-year-old has also been arrested in connection with allegations of attempting to pervert the course of justice. A report on this has been sent to the procurator fiscal."
The first two rounds, in which players try to identify the connection between a group of four clues and then to name the next clue in a cryptic sequence, are often so obscure, the connections so convoluted or tangential, that nobody lands on an answer.
A person or persons related to oneself, through either family or business.
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I have some connections in Lancashire.
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I hadn't much chance of buying a practice or dropping into a partnership worth having and I jibbed at setting up in some God-forsaken backwater and slipping into middle age 'building up a connection.'
A person or persons related to oneself, through either family or business. An acquaintance who is useful in a particular scenario, especially in a corrupt or criminal way.
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I have connections in the local committee. I shall bring them to bear, as long as the Council does not find fault!
General Zhigailo also used his connections to have an officer at the academy expelled from the party because he had criticized the general's behavior.
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"I don't think Merv had ever been in the Mob," she added, but "he had connections." She recalled one of his connections.
A person or persons related to oneself, through either family or business. A drug dealer.
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Now the final study was the drug habit. He was now in New Orleans, slipping along the streets with shady characters and haunting connection bars.
A set of sets that contains the empty set, all one-element sets for any element that is included in any of the sets, and the union of any group of sets that are elements where the intersections of those sets is non-empty.
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a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it)
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there was a connection between eating that pickle and having that nightmare
the state of being connected
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the connection between church and state is inescapable
an instrumentality that connects
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he soldered the connection
he didn't have the right connector between the amplifier and the speakers
(usually plural) a person who is influential and to whom you are connected in some way (as by family or friendship)
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he has powerful connections
the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination
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conditioning is a form of learning by association
a connecting shape
a supplier (especially of narcotics)
shifting from one form of transportation to another
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the plane was late and he missed his connection in Atlanta
the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication)
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the joining of hands around the table
there was a connection via the internet