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siamese

connected \connected\ adj.

  1. p. p. of connect. [Narrower terms: abutting, adjacent, adjoining, bordering(prenominal), conterminous, coterminous, contiguous] [Narrower terms: adjunctive] [Narrower terms: contiguous, in contact] [Narrower terms: coupled, joined, linked] [Narrower terms: cursive, flowing] [Narrower terms: siamese] [Narrower terms: socially connected, well-connected] unconnected

  2. being joined in close association.

    Syn: affiliated, attached.

  3. connected by a conductor so as to allow the flow of electric signals. [Narrower terms: wired (vs. wireless)] WordNet 1.5]

  4. (Music) legato. staccato

    Syn: flowing, smooth.

  5. associated with or accompanying.

    Syn: associated.

  6. (Computers) stored in, controlled by, or in direct communication with a central computer. [Narrower terms: on-line (vs. off-line), online, on line(predicate)]

    Syn: machine-accessible.

  7. switched on. [Narrower terms: on-line (vs. off-line), online, on line(predicate)]

    Syn: ready, on.

  8. having some relation.

    Syn: related.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Siamese

"of or pertaining to Siam," 1690s; see Siam + -ese. Also from 1690s as a noun meaning "native of Siam." the original Siamese twins (exhibited from 1829) were Chang and Eng (1814-1874), Thai-Chinese natives of Siam who settled in the U.S. Hence Siamesed (adj.) "joined in the manner of Siamese twins" (1830). Siamese cat is attested from 1871.

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Siamese

Siamese , most commonly refers to:

  • Someone or something from Thailand, see Siam (disambiguation)
    • The Thai language
    • The Thai people
  • Siamese, an informal term for conjoined or fused, including with a two-cylinder motorcycle's exhaust pipes
    • Siamese twins, conjoined twins
    • The "Siamese Twins", Chang and Eng Bunker, the conjoined twin sideshow act from whom the term derives

Usage examples of "siamese".

A sudden, startling white-light image showed living, breathing Siamese twins, impossibly transected to expose raw pink-and-gray muscles working side-by-side with shape-memory alloys and piezoelectric actuators, flesher and gleisner anatomies interpenetrating.

Besides these there are stray Achinese, Africans, Anamese, Bengalis, Bugis, Dyaks, Manilamen, Siamese, and Singhalese, numbering 174.

As Sacheverell was explaining the tiny Canopic jar of preserved cat entrails beside it, a six-toed Siamese wandered up and sniffed the mummy thoughtfully.

Amongst other things he assured me that the Siamese ambassadors were cheats paid by Madame de Maintenon.

He fulfilled a contract with a minor Siamese prince and brought back sufficient gold to purchase sufficient dried yellow corbina from another village to carry Sinanju through the winter.

She works up detailed horoscopes, breeds Siamese cats, instructs in decoupage, gets around on a Honda and writes a weekly society gossip column for a throwaway called the Lauderdale Bystander.

The new king was intent, like his predecessors, on the conquest of the adjacent states, and accordingly made war in 1765 on the Manipur kingdom, and also on the Siamese, with partial success.

When I went into the bar to tell Irving what a good job he had done, Mademoiselle Markoff was waiting for me, wearing a red gown that would have been roomy on most Siamese triplets, but that fit her so snugly that I could see the huge mole on her left thigh right through it.

In the meantime the Siamese revolted, and while the Burman army was marching against them, the Peguan soldiers who had been incorporated in it rose against their companions, and commencing an indiscriminate massacre, pursued the Burman army to the gates of Rangoon, which they besieged, but were unable to capture.

He wished now to report upon this fell encounter with a feather duster, a Siamese cat, a spoiled Pekingese, and three others gone ghastly frail from undereating and overwashing.

Pencil-thin spotlights cased in stainless steel lit a Siamese Buddha, New England Redware and a Florentine triptych.

Siamese in their cages, and the Persians in their cages, and there, in several small cages, the shorthaired black cats and their hybrid offspring.

The blast of the Thingamabob had thrown them together and fused their helmets into a single bubble, so that they resembled Siamese twins joined at the head.

I have met many Siamese, Tonkinese, Persians and Turks who said as much.

They moved like synchronized swimmers or Siamese twins separated at birth.