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English noun: connection | |||
| 1. | connection a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it) | ||
| Samples | There was a connection between eating that pickle and having that nightmare. | ||
| Synonyms | connectedness, connexion | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | relation | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | alliance, bond, bridge, communication, concatenation, involvement, linkage, relatedness, relevance, relevancy, series | ||
| Attribute | connected, unconnected | ||
| Antonyms | unconnectedness | ||
| 2. | connection (state) the state of being connected | ||
| Samples | The connection between church and state is inescapable. | ||
| Synonyms | connectedness, link | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | unification, union | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | coherence, coherency, cohesion, cohesiveness, concatenation, contact, interconnectedness, interconnection | ||
| Antonyms | disconnectedness, disconnection, disjunction, disjuncture | ||
| 3. | connection (artifact) an instrumentality that connects | ||
| Samples | He soldered the connection. He didn't have the right connector between the amplifier and the speakers. | ||
| Synonyms | connecter, connective, connector, connexion | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | instrumentality, instrumentation | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | attachment, backbone, bond, conjunction, coupling, earth, ground, hitch, hookup, jumper, junction, line, patch, phone line, slip ring, subscriber line, telephone circuit, telephone line, temporary hookup, yoke | ||
| 4. | connection (person) (usually plural) a person who is influential and to whom you are connected in some way (as by family or friendship) | ||
| Samples | He has powerful connections. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | acquaintance, friend | ||
| Domain usage | plural, plural form | ||
| 5. | connection (cognition) the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination | ||
| Samples | Conditioning is a form of learning by association. | ||
| Synonyms | association, connexion | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | memory, remembering | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | colligation | ||
| 6. | connection (shape) a connecting shape | ||
| Synonyms | connexion, link | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | form, shape | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | articulation, join, joint, junction, juncture, node | ||
| 7. | connection (person) a supplier (especially of narcotics) | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | provider, supplier | ||
| Domain category | narcotic | ||
| 8. | connection (act) shifting from one form of transportation to another | ||
| Samples | The plane was late and he missed his connection in Atlanta. | ||
| Synonyms | connexion | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | conveyance, transfer, transferral, transport, transportation | ||
| 9. | connection (act) the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication) | ||
| Samples | The joining of hands around the table. There was a connection via the internet. | ||
| Synonyms | connexion, joining | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | change of integrity | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | adjunction, approximation, articulation, attachment, bringing close together, coming upon, concatenation, convergence, convergency, converging, encounter, fastening, hit, interconnection, intersection, junction | ||
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