Word Finder - connection

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The act of connecting.

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The point at which two or more things are connected.

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

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A feeling of understanding and ease of communication between two or more people.

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

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An established communications or transportation link.

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

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A transfer from one transportation vehicle to another in scheduled transportation service

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The bus was late so he missed his connection at Penn Station and had to wait six hours for the next train.

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A kinship relationship between people.

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An individual who is related to oneself, through either family or business.

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I have some connections in Lancashire.

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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.

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Coherence; lack of disjointedness

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The description for a Methodist denomination as a whole, as opposed to its constituent churches, circuits, districts and conferences.

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Sexual intercourse

I don't see any possible connection, much less this so-called time travel.

She'd never felt such a connection to anyone.

Uh, yeah, this guy has a connection to you.

Yet, she was all that remained of his brother, and he cherished the connection.

She didn't make the connection.

The connection had been there all along.

But the same man apart from that connection appears to be free.

That's where I found the connection.

With the accumulating proofs of the financial stability of the country various changes were made in connection with the debt charges.

She shivered at the odd connection, the heat and warmth.

She willed herself there, concentrating hard to keep from losing the connection.

The stelar system of Vascular Plants has no direct phylogenetic connection with that of the mosses.

The connections of its stele witl that of the parent axis are made across the pericycle of the latter Its cortex is never in connection with the cortex of the parent, but with its pericycle.

Both Diamond and Pearl are very popular RPGs and were released at the same time as the Nintendo DS Headset, an accessory that allows gamers to chat over an Internet connection.

The velocity of the other connected point at such an instant is null, unless it also reaches a dead-point at the same instant, so that the line of connection is in the plane of the two axes of rotation, in which case the velocity ratio is indeterminate.

When it is connected with a continuously turning piece (such as the crank of a steam-engine) the ends of the stroke of the reciprocating piece correspond to the d.ead-points of the path of the connected point of the turning piece, where the line of connection is continuous with or coincides with the crank-arm.

If we pass a little higher up the scale ot life we meet with forms consisting of two or more cells, each of which contains a similar minute mass of living substance, A study of them shows that each is practically independent of the others; in fact, the connection between them is so slight that they can separate and each becofne free without the slightest disadvantage to another.

The effect of the link is to maintain the distance between the axes of those pins invariable; hence the common perpendicular of the axes of the pins is the line of connection, and its extremities may be called the connected points.

If at any instant the direction of one of the crank-arms coincides with the line of connection, the common perpendicular of the line sf connection and the axis of that crank-arm vanishes, and the 3irectional relation of the motions becomes indeterminate.

The first is by the method of instantaneous centres, already exemplified in 63, and rolling centroids, developed by Reuleaux in connection with his method of analysis.

Adding the centres corresponding to these several axes to the figure, it will be seen that there are six centres in connection with the four-bar chain of which four are permanent and two are instantaneous or virtual centres; and, further, that whatever be the configuration of the chain these centres group themselves into three sets of three, each set lying on a straight line.

When but one flywheel is used, it should be placed in as direct connection as possible with that part of the mechanism where the greatest amount of the periodical excess originates; but when it originates at two or more points, it is best to have a flywheel in connection with each of these points.

The general results of the decline of the marriage-rate and the postponement of marriage upon the natural growth of population will be discussed in connection with the birth-rate, though the statistics available do not permit of the accurate measurement of the respective influence of these factors, and there are others, too, which have to be taken into consideration, as will appear below.

By the beginning of the 19th century the New Connection numbered 40 churches and 3400 members.

Many of the ministers would have been considered in Europe merely as chiefs of departments of a ministry, as, for instance, the minister for Crown buildings, that for Crown domains, the minister of ceremonies, those for arsenals, army accounts, &c.; also an accumulation of several offices without any connection between their functions, in the hands of a single person, was frequently a characteristic departure from the European model.

This name, which survives in the modern Herat, has of course no connection with that, of the Aryans.

In 1783, when the strength of the Persian monarchy was concentrated upon Isfahan and Shiraz, the Georgian tsar Heraclius entered into an agreement with the empress Catherine by which all connection with the shah was disavowed, and a quasi-vassalage to Russia substitutedthe said empire extending her aegis of protection over her new ally.

His ship, the Hardinge, was escorted by four cruisers, and the voyage was regarded as a political demonstration, to be interpreted in, connection with Lord Lansdownes declaration.

The age of Zend must be examined in connection with the age of the Avesta.

Wessex was won over by an independent adventurer, the Frank Birinus, who had no connection with the earlier arrivals in Kent.

Richards crusading exploits have no connection with the history of England.

The Gascons were practically a separate nationality, and the house of Capet had no ancient connection with them.

But the connection with Gascony meant little compared with the now vanished connection with Normandy.

His pride was hurt, but for two years more there was no open breach between him and his master, though their estrangement grew more and more marked when Edward continued to heap titles and estates on his wifes numerous relatives, and to conclude for them marriage alliances with all the great Yorkist families B h who were not of the Neville connection.

Whether they had any communication with Warbeck it is impossible to say; there is no proof of such a connection, but their acts served him well.

As it was, the Spanish connection checked Englands aspirations; her adventurers were warned off the Spanish Main, and even trade with the colonies of Philips ally Portugal was prohibited.

As Burke had wished the British parliament to be supreme over the colonies, in confidence that this supremacy would not be abused, so he wished the great landowning connection resting on the rotten boroughs to ruie over the unrepresented people, in confidence that this power would not be abused.

The two sections of which the government was composed had different aims. The Rockingham section, which now looked up to Fox, rested on aristocratic connection and influence; the Shelburne section was anxious to gain popular support by active reforms, and to gain over the king to their side.

The distress inevitable in connection with such an industrial revolution was increased by the immense burden of the war and by the high protective policy of the parliament, which restricted trade and deliberately increased the price of food in the interests of the agricultural classes.

These are the principal English historical writers for the middle ages; but as the connection between England and the continent grew closer, and international relations developed, an increasing amount of light is thrown on English history by foreign writers.

No longer firmly rooted in the soil, the monarchy was helpless before local powers which confronted it, seized upon the land, and cut off connection between throne and people.

A married man might be united in barragania to a woman other than his lawful wife, and the children of that connection, though not fully legitimate, were not bastards.

Godoy, since his return, had abandoned all connection with the reforming party.

The evidence adduced by Nathorst and some other writers is, however, not convincing; until we find well-preserved sporocarps in connection with vegetative fronds we prefer to keep an open mind as regards the position of Sagenopteris.

Santa Barbara, California was foreign to him and he was seeing less of his mother, his sole personal connection.

He may have only suspected a connection and his break-in no more than a fishing expedition but it proves his capabilities are admirable.

She'd felt a connection to Darian early on, as soon as she met him, but she'd never allowed herself to dwell on it, even when he sought her out almost daily to spar.

Instead of Gabriel's warm energy, this one was Darkyn's cool energy, the soul-deep connection to a demon horrifying her.

Though he didn't know what connection past-Death had to some human, he trusted Rhyn above everyone.

Some reminder of past-Death, a sign she cared for him, a hint at the connection between this Logan and the woman Gabriel knew.