Meaning of connection | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Relationship, connection.
2. In relation to; with respect to; concerning: The mayor's office made no comments in connection with the tax proposal.
3. The point at which two or more things are connected.
   countable, uncountable
4. The act of connecting.
5. A feeling of understanding and ease of communication between two or more people.
   countable, uncountable
6. One that connects; a link: made a connection between the two pipes.
7. An established communications or transportation link.
   countable, uncountable
8. An association or relationship: an obvious connection between the two crimes.
9. A transfer from one transportation vehicle to another in scheduled transportation service.
   countable, uncountable
10. The logical or intelligible ordering of words or ideas; coherence.
11. A kinship relationship between people.
    countable, uncountable
12. Reference or relation to something else; context: In this connection, the agreement can be seen as a step toward peace.
13. A person related to oneself, through either family or business.
    countable, uncountable
14. A person, especially one of influence or importance, with whom one is associated, as by kinship or common interests: used her connections to land a job.
15. 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.
    countable, uncountable
16. A conveyance or scheduled run providing continuing service between means of transportation: missed my connection in Miami.
17. Coherence; lack of disjointedness.
    countable, uncountable
18. A physical link, such as by wire or fiber-optic cable, between two or more points in a telecommunications system: established a connection to the internet.
19. A Methodist denomination as a whole, as opposed to its constituent churches, circuits, districts and conferences.
    countable, uncountable
20. A means or channel of communication: couldn't hear due to the bad phone connection.
21. Sexual intercourse.
    countable, uncountable
22. A drug dealer.
    countable, slang, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“the connection between overeating and obesity”

“My headache has no connection with me going out last night.”

“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."”

“As we were the only people in the room to laugh at the joke, I felt a connection between us.”

“computers linked by a network connection”

“I was talking to him, but there was lightning and we lost the connection.”

“The Route 4 bus will arrive on 5th St. at Robinson Ave at 3:30. The northbound number 14 is scheduled to arrive on Robinson at 3:31. That means you have to run across the street once you arrive, it's a spot connection.”

“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.”

“I have some connections in Lancashire.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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