connectioncon‧nec‧tion /kəˈnekʃən/ ●●● S3 W2 noun 
the causal connection between smoking and cancer There is a connection between pollution and the death of trees.connection with Mr O'Hara had no known connection with terrorist activity.connection to Williams apparently has no connection to the case. Police have so far failed to establish a connection between the two murders. The evidence was there in the file but no one made the connection. Students often see little connection between school and the rest of their lives. He demonstrated the close connection between social conditions and health.2joining [countable, uncountable] when two or more things are joined together or when something is joined to a larger system or network: a digital telephone connection via satellite They’re offering free Internet connection.connection to The socket allows connection to a PC. There’s a £25 connection charge (=money you pay to be connected to a service such as telephones, electricity etc).3in connection with something concerning or involving somethingarrest/charge/question etc somebody in connection with a crime Two men have been arrested in connection with the attack. visits made to Spain in connection with her business his work in connection with refugees4electrical wire [countable] a wire or piece of metal joining two parts of a machine or electrical system: an electrical connection There’s a loose connection (=wires which are not joined correctly).5train/flight etc [countable] a train, bus, or plane which is arranged to leave at a time that allows passengers from an earlier train, bus, or plane to use it to continue their journeyconnection to If this train gets delayed we’ll miss our connection to Paris.6road/railway etc [countable] a road, railway etc that joins two places and allows people to travel between them: Cheshunt has good rail connections to London.7people connections [plural] a)people who you know who can help you, especially because they are in positions of power: connections in high places We have good connections in the advertising industry. b)people who are related to you, but not very closely: He is English, but has Irish connections. the network of family connections in ItalyCOLLOCATIONSverbshave a connection (with/to something)· A lot of social problems have a direct connection to alcohol or drug use.see a connection· It's easy to see a connection between stress and illness.make a connection· In learning to read, children make a connection between a written sign and a known sound or word.establish a connection (=show that there is one)· Scientists have attempted to establish a connection between these two theories.discover/find a connection· This is the first official investigation to find a connection.something suggests a connection· There is nothing to suggest a connection between the hospital food and the illness.break a connection (=stop it existing)· We must break the connection between money and politics.sever a connection (=break it)· We cannot sever our connection with the past.adjectivesa direct connection· Many people see a direct connection between these events.a close/strong connection· the close connection between maths and physicsan intimate connection (=a very close connection)· There is an intimate connection between political liberty and economic freedom.a causal connection (=that causes or is caused by something else)· Psychologists have established a causal connection between behaviour and rewards.a clear/obvious connection· There is an obvious connection between this painting and his earlier works.a loose connection (also a tenuous connection formal) (=one that is not strong, close, or obvious)· There seemed to be only a loose connection between the questions and the answers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- By the end of the decade, direct satellite connections for the Internet may be available.
- Carefully check all the electrical connections.
- Check the connections to make sure all the wires are in the correct places.
- I believe Joe's family has Spanish connections.
- I felt an immediate connection with Luisa as soon as I met her.
- Intelligent people tend to have strong connections between the neurons in their brains.
- Sheldon revealed the close connection between poverty and bad health.
- Shirley used her connections in the country music industry to get a recording contract.
- Students need to realize that there is a connection between education and their future.
- The two incidents might have something to do with each other, but I can't see the connection.
- There must be a loose connection somewhere - the phone isn't working.
- There must be a loose connection somewhere that's stopping it from working.
- None the less we are twinned with a small town in Hampshire with which we have no real connection.
- Now for them to find out there was a connection between you and Mahoney means they find out what sort of connection.
- People like him have severed all connection with the old rules.
- The attorney general's office did not say who they were or what connection they allegedly may have had with the escape.
- When holding their baby, they experienced an overwhelming feeling of loving connection.
- Whilst doing this Marvell can live in his own world which has no connection with anything external or real at all.
Longman Language Activatorwhen two facts, events, or situations are connected
· The two incidents might have something to do with each other, but I can't see the connection.connection between something and something · Students need to realize that there is a connection between education and their future.close connection · Sheldon revealed the close connection between poverty and bad health.
the way in which two things are connected and affect each other, or the way in which the connection can be explained: · Interest rates and government spending are connected, but the relationship is quite a complex one.relationship to/with something: · These accusations against me have no relationship to the truth.relationship between something and something: · She was worried that the company wouldn't see any relationship between her work experience and the job she was applying for.
a connection between two facts or events, especially when one causes or affects the other: link between: · Some scientists believe there may be a link between caffeine and heart disease.link with: · Police are investigating the scene to determine if there are any links with last week's bombing.
if there is a correlation between two things, they happen or exist together and it seems likely that one causes or influences the other: correlation between: · One of the students asked whether there was any correlation between rainfall and temperature.· In tests, no correlation was found between diet and intelligence.correlation with: · The study examines the correlation of violence on television with children's behavior.strong correlation: · Dawson argued that there is a strong correlation between teenage crime and low educational achievement.
not connected with something or someone · The two diseases seem similar, but they are not related in any way.not connected/not related with · The group is not connected with any political party.
formal not connected in any way: · The two robberies are said to be unconnected.unrelated to something/unconnected with something: · A spokesperson claimed that Hoyle's dismissal was completely unrelated to his recent criticism of the club.
especially written to not be connected with something in any way: · His comment had absolutely no connection with what we were talking about.
to not be connected with something or someone in any way: · Those boxes are nothing to do with me. Sally left them there.· Your age has nothing to do with your ability to do the job.
to say, believe, or prove that there is a connection between two facts, events, or people to say or believe that there is a connection between two things, even though the connection may not be easy to see or prove: link something and something: · Police are linking the availability of alcohol and a recent rise in the number of teenage arrests.link somebody/something with somebody/something: · His name has been linked with several famous actresses since he and his wife separated last year.· The health department has linked several cases of food poisoning with contaminated shellfish.link something to something: · For centuries farmers have linked the behavior of animals and plants to changes in the weather.
if you associate something with something else, the two things are always connected in your mind: associate something with something: · Shoppers tend to associate certain brand names with high quality.· People associate the old days with good times, and seem to forget the hardship they endured.associate something and something: · I've always associated the smell of paint and my first grade art class.
to realize that two things are connected: · At least 24 women who took the diet pills developed heart disease before doctors made the connection.make a connection between: · Young children quickly make a connection between the pictures in books and the real objects they see.
to prove or discover that something is connected with something else: establish a link between: · Police have so far failed to establish a link between the two murders.· Sir Austin Bradford Hill led one of the first research teams to establish a link between smoking and lung cancer.
when a wire, pipe etc goes between two things so that they are joined if something such as a wire or pipe connects two things, it goes between them, especially so that something can get from one to the other: connect something to something: · The hoses which connect the radiator to the engine are leaking.· The umbilical cord connects the baby to the placenta.connect something with something: · Home workers are connected with the office by the Internet.connect something and something: · Jennings has twisted the ligaments which connect the knee-cap and the lower part of the leg.
if a wire links two machines or places, it connects them: · There is an underwater telephone cable linking the two islands.link something with something: · There's a fault in the wire that links the printer with the computer.
a wire or piece of metal that joins two parts of a machine or electrical system: · Carefully check all the electrical connections.loose connection (=one that is not joined properly): · There must be a loose connection somewhere - the phone isn't working.
the place or part where two things join the place where two pieces of wood, metal, plastic etc are joined, especially so that they make one continuous piece: · One of the joints in the pipe was cracked and gas was escaping.· Duvall had just glued the joints of the chair and was tightening a vise to hold them in place.
British the place where two or more pieces of something have been joined together, especially where it has been repaired: · It's been glued back together so well you can hardly see the join.· Years ago, someone had resealed the tank, and now water was beginning to leak from the rusty join.
the place where something is joined to something else, through which electricity or information flows: · Check the connections to make sure all the wires are in the correct places.· By the end of the decade, direct satellite connections for the Internet may be available.· Intelligent people tend to have strong connections between the neurons in their brains.loose connection: · There must be a loose connection somewhere that's stopping it from working.
British the place where two large roads, railway lines, rivers etc join or cross: · I live in a block of flats at the junction of Cambridge Road and Kilburn High Street.· One of Britain's worst rail accidents happened at Clapham Junction.
especially American the place where two roads cross each other: · The intersection is one of the busiest in the city.intersection of: · We waited at the intersection of Fulton Street and Gough Avenue for the lights to change.
WORD SETSalternator, nounarc, nounblow, verbcapacitor, nouncathode, nouncell, nouncharge, nouncharge, verbcharger, nouncircuit, nouncircuit board, nouncircuit breaker, nouncircuitry, nouncoil, nouncondenser, nounconnection, nouncontact, nouncord, nouncordless, adjectivecurrent, nounDC, dimmer, noundirect current, noundischarge, verbdischarge, nounE, earth, nounearth, verbelectric, adjectiveelectrician, nounelectricity, nounelectrics, nounelectrode, nounelectronic, adjectiveelectronics, nounfuel cell, nounfuse, verbfuse box, nounfused, adjectivegrid, nounlive, adjectivelive wire, nounmagic eye, nounmagneto, nounnegative, adjectiveneutral, adjectivenoise, nounoscillate, verboscillator, nounoutlet, nounphotoelectric, adjectivephotoelectric cell, nounpin, nounplug, nounpoint, nounpre-set, adjectiveprinted circuit, nounprogramme, nounprogramme, verbpulse, nounremote control, nounresistance, nounresistor, nounscan, verbscanner, nounshort, nounshort, verbshort circuit, nounshort-circuit, verbsocket, nounsolid-state, adjectivesonar, nounsuperconductivity, nounsuperconductor, nounterminal, nountime switch, nountoggle switch, nountorch, nountransformer, nountransistor, nounvacuum tube, nounvalve, nounW, wire, nounwiring, nounzapper, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYverbs Five youths were arrested in connection with the attack. The two countries severed diplomatic relations. She had severed all contact with her ex-husband. The United Peace Alliance had only a tenuous connection with the organized Labour movement. The link between her family and the King’s is rather tenuous.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· A lot of social problems have a direct connection to alcohol or drug use.
· It's easy to see a connection between stress and illness.
· In learning to read, children make a connection between a written sign and a known sound or word.
(=show that there is one)· Scientists have attempted to establish a connection between these two theories.
· This is the first official investigation to find a connection.
· There is nothing to suggest a connection between the hospital food and the illness.
(=stop it existing)· We must break the connection between money and politics.
(=break it)· We cannot sever our connection with the past.
adjectives· Many people see a direct connection between these events.
· the close connection between maths and physics
(=a very close connection)· There is an intimate connection between political liberty and economic freedom.
(=that causes or is caused by something else)· Psychologists have established a causal connection between behaviour and rewards.
· There is an obvious connection between this painting and his earlier works.
(also a tenuous connection formal) (=one that is not strong, close, or obvious)· There seemed to be only a loose connection between the questions and the answers.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Five youths were arrested in connection with the attack.· The campaign makes a direct link between global warming and the consumption of energy in the home.
· a high-speed Internet connection
The two countries severed diplomatic relations. She had severed all contact with her ex-husband. The United Peace Alliance had only a tenuous connection with the organized Labour movement. The link between her family and the King’s is rather tenuous.· There is also a causal connection between the two processes.· There must also be a causal connection between disability and a substantial limitation on a major life activity.· The idea that science does not involve causal connection also faces other difficulties, one of which can be given briefly.· But even if there is not this causal connection, the fantasy does have a causal effect.· The causal connection between the addictive use and the damaging consequences may be denied.· The achievement of a goal will serve to reinforce the behaviour and so establish a causal connection between needs and goals.· The causal connection between mood-altering substance or behaviour and the damaging consequences continues to be denied and the denial is intensified.· There is no important causal connection between the reinforcing effect of a stimulus and the feelings to which it gives rise.
· This suggests again the close connection between property regulations and marriage patterns.· It simply establishes a much closer connection between the process of socialization and its symbolic consequences.· And there is a particularly close connection in the case we are considering.· Domestic drama had a close connection with the growing spirit of dissatisfaction with existing social, economic, religious and political conditions.· Campaigners boosted the impact of their warnings by drawing a close connection between the fly and the home.· There is a close connection between the learning process and the development of a thinking, reasoning self.· Because of its close connection with metaphor, simile may also be considered here.· During the recent years after the war the university rose in national importance and always had a close connection with the bishop.
· But there is little direct connection.· The grand jury room is within a closed-off suite with a direct elevator connection to the basement garage.· You can use a terminal program for direct connection to another user.· But it was not until much later that any direct connection between asteroids and Earth could be established.· There will be no direct connection between Musselburgh and the Musselburgh Bypass at this location.· Testers will need a direct connection to the Internet, as opposed to the dial-up connections popular with home Internet subscribers.· There is little direct connection, because many early ecologists were not interested in evolution.· It is essential to see the direct connection between the production and distribution of goods in this unified process.
· People might spend $ 300 for an Internet device once, but they pay for their Internet connection each month.· If you have a full-time Internet connection, as growing numbers of people do at work, PointCast works seamlessly.· Generally, the faster your Internet connection, the lower the latency.· Among other things, the groups hopes to put an Internet connection and a printer in every village.
· Traditionally, an intimate connection has been seen between style and an author's personality.· Mythologies all over the world describe the intimate connection, often antipathy, between birds and snakes.
· It is further easy to see that there is no necessary connection between subsidy-free prices and Ramsey-optional prices.· The difficulty is finding any necessary connection between two cases.· Normative positivism asserts what legal positivists deny, namely that there is a necessary connection between law and positive morality.· Men. come and go in their lives, but there is no necessary connection between motherhood and marriage.· The women were keen to deny the necessary connection between their work and technical hobbies.· There is no necessary connection between evil and religion, either a logical one or on factual grounds.
· However, his appointment would leave the Treasury without a strong connection to the financial markets.· Although the players come from a variety of musical backgrounds, there is a strong Birmingham connection.· These services are usually geographically based and have a strong local connection.
· Collectors seem prepared to Hoover them up, however tenuous the connection with the liner.
NOUN· The Primetime connection charge is £65.· Both operators are currently battling it out by making special offers on their primary rate connection charges.
VERB· Profeto was arrested in connection only with the second killing but detectives said a link would soon be made.· At least 42 people were arrested in connection with the caches, said Gen.· A 40-year-old Liverpool man was arrested in connection with the assault.· Some 40 people have since been arrested in connection with the case, and they include police and lower-level state officials.· Six men have been arrested in connection with the violence.· Davis was arrested in connection with the crime on Nov. 30, 1993.· Eleven teenagers were arrested in connection with the fatal stabbing of 10-year-old Damilola Taylor.· Elmer Lee Nance, a 63-year-old drifter, was arrested last fall in connection with the murder.
· Seconds after he'd broken the connection, the phone rang again.· Carl Kerenyi points out that this breaks the strict connection to grain, since no seed remains four months underground.· She pulled out a penknife and started stabbing, hoping to break some vital connection.
· Does this deny any connection between the physiology of black athletes and their sporting achievements?· Aronoff, Riffe, other lawmakers and lobbyists adamantly deny any connection between campaign contributions, honoraria and legislative action.· Hazel denied its connection with gender but related it to her class origin.· Other academic analysts at Williamsburg denied any important connection between the use of welfare and the incidence of illegitimacy and family breakdown.· Strauss-Kahn strongly denies any connection between Lagerfeld's tax debt and the handing over of the tape.· Mrs Cons-Boutboul denies any connection with either murder.· The women were keen to deny the necessary connection between their work and technical hobbies.
· To establish a correlation is not necessarily to establish a connection.· But a stubborn, argumentative child may try to draw you into too many debates as you try to establish a connection.· The achievement of a goal will serve to reinforce the behaviour and so establish a causal connection between needs and goals.· He says the city wants to establish a citywide internet connection through the cable system.· As the analysis developed, our attention was drawn towards the way the document attempts to establish other forms of connection.· It simply establishes a much closer connection between the process of socialization and its symbolic consequences.· It can take full credit for the success it has achieved, establishing a clear connection between results and core organizational beliefs.
· It doesn't make any real connection with me.· Under no circumstances make the connection to the negative battery terminal!· The pipe connection from the pump was made and the electrical connection for the pump installed.· It took me forty-three years to make the connection between Jack and Gatsby.· She made the connection for him and gestured towards the phone at the end of the counter.· Of course, making the connection more explicit will not impress everybody.· Why had she not made the connection and what, in any case, was the connection?· In most cases, setting up the software and making the connection is easy.
· This suggests again the close connection between property regulations and marriage patterns.· They have suggested possible clinical connection with labile behavior in schizophrenia and disordered motor activity in Parkinsonian patients.· Could this suggest a coal connection?· Now imagine, Weiser suggests, computation and connection embedded into the built environment to the same degree.· Parallelism, which suggests a connection of meaning through an echo of form, does not have to be grammatical parallelism.· They suggested that the newfound connection might explain the apparent link between muscle tension and severe headaches.· It draws us towards other ignored aspects of existence usually called the psychic, esoteric or occult and suggests a possible connection.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► connectionsPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
- They're investigating safety matters in connection with the astronauts' experiences.
- But lawyers said those defendants were acting primarily to help wives and other relatives in trouble in connection with the espionage.
- Dale was acquitted of federal charges in connection with the affair.
- Elmer Lee Nance, a 63-year-old drifter, was arrested last fall in connection with the murder.
- It took the police just weeks to arrest five men in connection with the shootings.
- McCurry also said Morris did not have a security clearance in connection with his work for Clinton.
- Renteria also was arrested in connection with the thefts.
- Six men have been arrested in connection with the violence.
- This time it was in connection with the death of his old nemesis, 92-year-old Alger Hiss.
- Mr Eastwood argues it would break ties with local communities.
- Personnel changes confirmed the new liberalism in the Soviet Union and the attempt to break links with past behaviour.
- Heat had intimate links with chemistry, and optics with astronomy.
- Mythologies all over the world describe the intimate connection, often antipathy, between birds and snakes.
- Traditionally, an intimate connection has been seen between style and an author's personality.
- In neither ease was the omission a necessary consequence of the intellectual stance of the two schools.
- It is further easy to see that there is no necessary connection between subsidy-free prices and Ramsey-optional prices.
- Men. come and go in their lives, but there is no necessary connection between motherhood and marriage.
- Neither is upward mobility, rising income or independence a necessary consequence of their diligence.
- Normative positivism asserts what legal positivists deny, namely that there is a necessary connection between law and positive morality.
- That stratification would occur as a necessary consequence of the alienation of labour.
- The difficulty is finding any necessary connection between two cases.
- These are, however, necessary consequences of the division of labour and the consequent role of trust in social relationships.
WORD FAMILYnounconnectionconnectednessconnectoradjectiveconnected ≠ disconnected ≠ unconnectedverbconnect ≠ disconnect
1relationship [countable] the way in which two facts, ideas, events etc are related to each other, and one is affected or caused by the other SYN linkconnection between the causal connection between smoking and cancer There is a connection between pollution and the death of trees.connection with Mr O'Hara had no known connection with terrorist activity.connection to Williams apparently has no connection to the case. Police have so far failed to establish a connection between the two murders. The evidence was there in the file but no one made the connection. Students often see little connection between school and the rest of their lives. He demonstrated the close connection between social conditions and health.2joining [countable, uncountable] when two or more things are joined together or when something is joined to a larger system or network: a digital telephone connection via satellite They’re offering free Internet connection.connection to The socket allows connection to a PC. There’s a £25 connection charge (=money you pay to be connected to a service such as telephones, electricity etc).3in connection with something concerning or involving somethingarrest/charge/question etc somebody in connection with a crime Two men have been arrested in connection with the attack. visits made to Spain in connection with her business his work in connection with refugees4electrical wire [countable] a wire or piece of metal joining two parts of a machine or electrical system: an electrical connection There’s a loose connection (=wires which are not joined correctly).5train/flight etc [countable] a train, bus, or plane which is arranged to leave at a time that allows passengers from an earlier train, bus, or plane to use it to continue their journeyconnection to If this train gets delayed we’ll miss our connection to Paris.6road/railway etc [countable] a road, railway etc that joins two places and allows people to travel between them: Cheshunt has good rail connections to London.7people connections [plural] a)people who you know who can help you, especially because they are in positions of power: connections in high places We have good connections in the advertising industry. b)people who are related to you, but not very closely: He is English, but has Irish connections. the network of family connections in ItalyCOLLOCATIONSverbshave a connection (with/to something)· A lot of social problems have a direct connection to alcohol or drug use.see a connection· It's easy to see a connection between stress and illness.make a connection· In learning to read, children make a connection between a written sign and a known sound or word.establish a connection (=show that there is one)· Scientists have attempted to establish a connection between these two theories.discover/find a connection· This is the first official investigation to find a connection.something suggests a connection· There is nothing to suggest a connection between the hospital food and the illness.break a connection (=stop it existing)· We must break the connection between money and politics.sever a connection (=break it)· We cannot sever our connection with the past.adjectivesa direct connection· Many people see a direct connection between these events.a close/strong connection· the close connection between maths and physicsan intimate connection (=a very close connection)· There is an intimate connection between political liberty and economic freedom.a causal connection (=that causes or is caused by something else)· Psychologists have established a causal connection between behaviour and rewards.a clear/obvious connection· There is an obvious connection between this painting and his earlier works.a loose connection (also a tenuous connection formal) (=one that is not strong, close, or obvious)· There seemed to be only a loose connection between the questions and the answers.