connect
vb
1 to link or be linked together; join; fasten
2 tr to relate or associate
I connect him with my childhood
3 tr to establish telephone communications with or between
4 intr to be meaningful or meaningfully related
5 intr (of two public vehicles, such as trains or buses) to have the arrival of one timed to occur just before the departure of the other, for the convenient transfer of passengers
6 intr
Informal to hit, punch, kick, etc., solidly
7 intr (U.S. and Canadian)
informal to be successful
8 intr Slang to find a source of drugs, esp. illegal drugs (C17: from Latin connectere to bind together, from nectere to bind, tie) ♦
connectible, connectable adj ♦
connector, connecter n
sentence connector
n a word or phrase that introduces a clause or sentence and serves as a transition between it and a previous clause or sentence, as for example also in I'm buying eggs and also I'm looking for a dessert for tonight. It may be preceded by a coordinating conjunction such as and in the above example