connected

«connected» in Mova's school dictionary: joined or linked to something else (connected rooms… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (connected, more connected); verb, past of connect (connect, connects, connected, connecting)

meaning for a pupil

1) Connected means joined or linked to something else (connected rooms, connected wires). tree →

2) Connected means related, so that one thing has something to do with another. tree →

3) Connected means linked to the internet, a network or a phone line. tree →

4) Connected is the past form of «connect». tree →

sense in the lessons

In science, a circuit works only when all the parts are connected. In maths, the dots of a shape are connected by lines. In everyday life you get connected to wi-fi; people feel connected to friends and family. In stories, clues are connected to a crime. Phrases: connected to, connected with, well connected, stay connected.

examples

• The bulb lights up when the wires are connected. tree →
• Join the dots so all the points are connected. tree →
• Is the tablet connected to the wi-fi? tree →
• These two rooms are connected by a door. tree →
• The flood was connected with the heavy rain. tree →
• We stay connected with Grandma by video calls. tree →
• The police think the two robberies are connected. tree →
• He connected the hose to the tap. tree →
• With the birds many graceful legends are connected. tree →

note

Verb: connect, connected, connecting. Noun: connection. «Connected to» for physical links (connected to the battery), «connected with» for being related (connected with the weather). Opposite: disconnected, unconnected.

In the corpora

• Many bird bones are hollow, with thin crossing struts, and some are filled with air connected to the lungs.
• The adult brain weighs about 1.4 kilograms and has about 86 billion nerve cells, each connected to thousands of others.
• Second: everything is connected.
• Small brains can do surprising things when their cells are well connected.
• Many Indus houses had bathrooms and toilets connected to covered drains along the streets, which carried dirty water away from people.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «connected» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.