connect

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To join or fasten together.
• intransitive verb To associate or consider as related: synonym: join.
• intransitive verb To join to or by means of a communications circuit.
• intransitive verb To plug in (an electrical cord or device) to an outlet.
• intransitive verb To become joined or united.
• intransitive verb To be scheduled so as to provide continuing service, as between airplanes or buses.
• intransitive verb To establish a rapport or relationship; relate.
• intransitive verb Sports To hit or play a ball or puck successfully.
• idiom (connect the dots) To draw connecting lines between a seemingly random arrangement of numbered dots so as to produce a picture or design.
• idiom (connect the dots) To draw logical inferences connecting items of information to reveal something previously hidden or unknown.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To make connection in time and place (with another train or boat): as, the boat connects with the train at Fall River.
• To bind or fasten together; join or unite; conjoin; combine; associate closely: as, to connect ideas; the strait of Gibraltar connects the Mediterranean with the Atlantic.
• To join, unite, or cohere.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To join, or fasten together, as by something intervening; to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to establish a bond or relation between.
• transitive verb To associate (a person or thing, or one's self) with another person, thing, business, or affair.
• transitive verb To establish a communication link; -- used with with.
• transitive verb To electronically or mechanically link (a device) to another device, or to link a device to a common communication line; -- used with with.
• transitive verb (Mach.) a rod or bar joined to, and connecting, two or more moving parts; esp. a rod connecting a crank wrist with a beam, crosshead, piston rod, or piston, as in a steam engine.
• intransitive verb To join, unite, or cohere; to have a close relation.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb intransitive, of an object To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.
• verb intransitive, of two objects To join: to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to each other.
• verb transitive, of an object To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to be a link between two objects, thereby attaching them to each other.
• verb transitive, of a person To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to take one object and attach it to another.
• verb To join an electrical or telephone line to a circuit or network.
• verb To associate.
• verb To make a travel connection; to switch from one means of transport to another as part of the same trip.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb land on or hit solidly
• verb be or become joined or united or linked
• verb join for the purpose of communication
• verb establish a rapport or relationship
• verb plug into an outlet
• verb join by means of communication equipment
• verb make a logical or causal connection
• verb hit or play a ball successfully
• verb connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces
• verb be scheduled so as to provide continuing service, as in transportation
• verb establish communication with someone