The Collaborative International Dictionary
connecting \connecting\ adj.
having a connection; as, connecting rooms.
forming a connection; as, a connecting corridor.
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(Grammar) syntactically connecting sentences or elements of a sentence.
Syn: copulative.
connecting \connecting\ n. the act of bringing two things into contact.
Syn: joining, connection, connexion.
connecting \connecting\ a. forming a connection; as, a connecting flight.
Syn: joining.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of connect English)
WordNet
adj. having a connection; "connecting rooms"
syntactically connecting sentences or elements of a sentence; "`and' is a copulative conjunction" [syn: copulative]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "connecting".
Quichuas and Aimaras could have passed across the wide Atlantic to Europe if there had been no stepping-stone in the shape of Atlantis with its bridge-like ridges connecting the two continents.
Bradley had noted something of the obvious indications of a gradual evolution from ape to spearman as exemplified by the several overlapping races of Alalus, club-men and hatchet-men that formed the connecting links between the two extremes with which he, had come in contact.
He felt that somewhere in the mind of Alfredo Morales might lurk a suspicion of a connecting link between the Frenchman and the new prisoner - both of whom Morales had seen at the inn.
Hence, in 1851, Muraviov established the factory of Nikolaievsk, near the mouth of the Amur, and those of Mariinsk and Alexandrovsk at either end of the portage connecting that river with the Bay of Castries.
I wanted to look more closely at some of the curious links I thought I had identified connecting the sudden appearance of Viracocha to the deluge legends of the Incas and other Andean peoples.
Those going on to Basrah were separated from those who were catching a connecting plane to Baghdad.
HOTEL She opened the connecting door to their bedrooms where the Bedlington terriers had been confined.
The hive area had been built adjacent to the 8-ball, with connecting passages, so that the bees could fly through ports into the sphere itself, which became their flying area.
As the ship continued east, the ice remained thin, and Brayton continued with blue dots, connecting them with blue line segments.
As the boat moved from thin ice to thick, Brayton marked the crosshair and began to plot the dots in orange with orange dashes connecting them and indicating thick ice.
Wires were brought in connecting the house to every telegraph system in Europe, and the guests viewed various types of telegraph equipment and cables and were treated to demonstrations.
A thin contrail of bubbles streaks from Caraco to monster, connecting the two in an instant.
She opened the connecting door to my room, which was carpeted in moss green, with walnut furniture.
In England patriotism takes different forms in different classes, but it runs like a connecting thread through nearly all of them.
He had flown to Madrid, then took a connecting flight on Iberian Airlines to La Coruna, in Galicia.