connected

[ UK /kənˈɛktɪd/ ]
[ US /kəˈnɛktɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. stored in, controlled by, or in direct communication with a central computer
  2. joined or linked together
  3. plugged in
    first check to see whether the appliance is connected
  4. wired together to an alarm system
    all the window alarms are connected
  5. being joined in close association
    affiliated clubs
    all art schools whether independent or attached to universities
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How To Use connected In A Sentence

  • We learn a little more about how interconnected the world is. Times, Sunday Times
  • It also has superb golf courses, so if you're a bit of a golf widow, leave him to tussle in the bunker while you slink off to the spa - it's connected to the hotel by a subterranean tunnel.
  • Like Gideon, her mother only existed in scraps of moments, in colors and sound, all disconnected and dissonant.
  • Recently the firm has been connected with more abortive bids than successes. Times, Sunday Times
  • by lawful/legal means. Lawful tends to be used in technical or literary contexts. The same is true of the opposites, unlawful and illegal, but illegal is used especially about criminal activities. Legal also means 'connected with the law':the US legal system.
  • In some present-day music the individual syllables of words are used primarily for their sound quality and seem disconnected from the rest of the text.
  • Police sources say part of the racket was connected to so-called ‘car parking jockeys’ - triads who take payments to park restaurant diners' cars - who wanted ‘compensation’ for the use of parking spaces.
  • For one thing, it is still "AAU" (All About Us) as if what happens in the US economy in a globalized world is somehow separate and disconnected to what happens to people "out there. Danny Schechter: The Economic Debate Has Yet to Target Key Issues
  • In view of the publicity already given to these subjects, it is necessary to note in fuller detail two matters connected with the health of the Canadian troops at Salisbury Plain – namely, the outbreak of cerebro-spinal fever and the veneral situation. War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps
  • It reduces engine shudder and powers the moving parts much more efficiently, being directly connected to the drivetrain. The Sun
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