Crossword clues for connective
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Connective \Con*nect"ive\, a. Connecting, or adapted to connect; involving connection.
Connection tissue (Anat.) See Conjunctive tissue, under Conjunctive.
Connective \Con*nect"ive\, n. That which connects. Specifically:
(Gram.) A word that connect words or sentences; a conjunction or preposition.
(Bot.) That part of an anther which connects its thec[ae], lobes, or cells.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from connect + -ive (if from Latin, it likely would have been *connexive). Connective tissue is from 1839.
Wiktionary
a. serving or tending to connect; connecting n. 1 That which connects. 2 (context logic English) A function that operates on truth values to give another truth value.
WordNet
adj. connecting or tending to connect; "connective remarks between chapters"; "connective tissue in animals"; "conjunctive tissue in plants"
n. an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences [syn: conjunction, conjunctive]
an instrumentality that connects; "he soldered the connection"; "he didn't have the right connector between the amplifier and the speakers" [syn: connection, connexion, connector, connecter]
Wikipedia
Connective may refer to:
- Bains::connective
- Logical connective
- Connective tissue
- Discourse connective, in linguistics, a word or phrase like "therefore" or "in other words".
- In the stamen of flowers, the sterile tissue that connects the anther chambers to one another and to the filament
Usage examples of "connective".
What you, as a businessperson, want to derive from direct mail is the establishment of a connective bond to the customer.
Dart was severing connective tissue and ducts with quick, accurate movements of his knife.
This container held a different enzymatic solution, a cloudy soup biologically tailored to seek and destroy fat nodules, blood, and any stray strands of connective tissue.
Though excessively primitive and archaic in some respects, the thing had a set of ganglial centers and connectives arguing the very extremes of specialized development.
This appears to have been done with a single cut from a sharp instrument, piercing the skin, connective tissues, and pectoralis major, exposing short lengths of the fourth and fifth ribs.
He had avoided the most serious contacts with them up to now by keeping clear of the interiors of blood vessels, though there were enough of them wandering free in the lymphatics and connective tissue to be a nuisance.
Stanton had to engage in furious backtracking, growing connective tissue to the pro-slavery radicals through that foppish Massachusetts Senator, Sumner.
On the other hand, there is sufficient connective tissue to hold the corpse together, and there are ragged ends of muscle tissue around the medial and lateral condyles of the femur and more clinging to the sacrum and ischium.
At any rate, this necessary congruity, this shape required for contact, presumes proper connectives.
At any rate, this necessary congruity, this shape required for contact, presumes proper connectives.
Thus ultimate discontinuity of personal selfdom reaches along linkages of S'eye connectives, repatterns all entities encountered.
Should Abnethe fail in her connectives or attempt redefinition of essences, this could produce linearities open for my disentanglement.
She probably demonstrated some of her powers, showed you various places available to you along the connectives of you and your associates.
The Taprisiots gave us a clue when they spoke of embedments and crossing Caleban connectives to .
Pat Conley said, "It's easy to see the connective between the first four.