CONNECTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does connected mean? 

• CONNECTED (adjective)
  The adjective CONNECTED has 5 senses:

1. being joined in close association

2. joined or linked together

3. wired together to an alarm system

4. plugged in

5. stored in, controlled by, or in direct communication with a central computer

  Familiarity information: CONNECTED used as an adjective is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONNECTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being joined in close association

Synonyms:

affiliated; attached; connected

Context example:

all art schools whether independent or attached to universities

Similar:

related; related to (being connected either logically or causally or by shared characteristics)

Derivation:

connectedness (the state of being connected)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Joined or linked together

Similar:

adjacent; conterminous; contiguous; neighboring (having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching)

adjunctive (joining; forming an adjunct)

affined (closely related)

conterminous; contiguous (connecting without a break; within a common boundary)

coupled; joined; linked (connected by a link, as railway cars or trailer trucks)

engaged (built against or attached to a wall)

well-connected (connected by blood or close acquaintance with people of wealth or social position)

Attribute:

connectedness; connection; connexion (a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it))

Antonym:

unconnected (not joined or linked together)

Derivation:

connectedness (the state of being connected)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Wired together to an alarm system

Context example:

all the window alarms are connected

Similar:

wired (equipped with wire or wires especially for electric or telephone service)

Derivation:

connectedness (a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it))

Sense 4

Meaning:

Plugged in

Context example:

first check to see whether the appliance is connected

Similar:

on (in operation or operational)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Stored in, controlled by, or in direct communication with a central computer

Synonyms:

connected; machine-accessible

Similar:

on-line; online (connected to a computer network or accessible by computer)

Derivation:

connectedness (a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it))

 Context examples 

About his neck was put a moss-stuffed collar, which was connected by two pulling-traces to a strap that passed around his chest and over his back.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The part of the brain that is connected to the spinal cord.

(Brain stem, NCI Dictionary)

Surgical procedure in which the stomach is connected to the jejunum, bypassing the duodenum.

(Bypass Gastrojejunostomy, NCI Thesaurus)

An individual biologic entity connected/linked to a subject.

(Associated Biologic Entity, NCI Thesaurus)

Something—I don't know what, or how—connected with the grave in the churchyard, and the raising of the dead, seemed to strike me like an unwholesome wind.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Chronic basophilic leukemia is an inappropriate term vaguely connected to the term mast cell leukemia.

(Acute Basophilic Leukemia, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

An exon may be connected to any one of several alternative exons to form the mRNA and generate related proteins, often in a tissue or developmental stage specific manner.

(Alternate Splicing, NCI Thesaurus)

Issue associated with the deviations from documented system specifications that affects overall system performance and/or the performance of an individual device or collection of devices connected to that system.

(Application Network Issue Associated with Medical Device, Food and Drug Administration)

They are connected to each other, with no capillaries.

(Arteriovenous Malformations, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

I am not fond of the prattle of children, he continued; for, old bachelor as I am, I have no pleasant associations connected with their lisp.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)