What's the difference between add and connect?

Add


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To give by way of increased possession (to any one); to bestow (on).
  • (v. t.) To join or unite, as one thing to another, or as several particulars, so as to increase the number, augment the quantity, enlarge the magnitude, or so as to form into one aggregate. Hence: To sum up; to put together mentally; as, to add numbers; to add up a column.
  • (v. t.) To append, as a statement; to say further.
  • (v. i.) To make an addition. To add to, to augment; to increase; as, it adds to our anxiety.
  • (v. i.) To perform the arithmetical operation of addition; as, he adds rapidly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Philip Shaw, chief economist at broker Investec, expects CPI to hit 5.1%, just shy of the 5.2% reached in September 2008, as the utility hikes alone add 0.4% to inflation.
  • (2) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
  • (3) The Coalition promises to add more misery to their lives.
  • (4) Maintenance therapy was always steroid-free to start with (cyclosporin+azathioprine) but in almost one half of our oldest survivors, it failed to avoid rejection and we had to add low-dose oral steroids for at least several months.
  • (5) When asked why the streets of London were not heaving with demonstrators protesting against Russia turning Aleppo into the Guernica of our times, Stop the War replied that it had no wish to add to the “jingoism” politicians were whipping up against plucky little Russia .
  • (6) Continuity of care programs, such as that developed by the Pain Service of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York), with good communication and liaison work between hospital and community, add a much needed dimension to the pain management of these patients in the home.
  • (7) Will the United fans' eternal favourite soon add his voice to that of 140,000 fans?
  • (8) Our results show that paramagnetic enhancement with T1-weighted imaging adds specificity and enables rapid assessment of abnormalities of the blood-brain barrier.
  • (9) This report adds another modification of the standard gastrocnemius muscle flap: transtibial transposition of the muscle through the posterior cortex.
  • (10) In his biography, Tony Blair admits to having accumulated 70 at one point – "considered by some to be a bit of a constitutional outrage", he adds.
  • (11) If an inhibitory concentration of Dgalactose was add 24 to 40 hr after mitogenic activation, rate of 3H-thymadine uptake at 72 hr was two to twenty times above the rate induced in cultures to which no galactose was added.
  • (12) At relapse an additional change, add(2), was present.
  • (13) Put in a large bowl, add the parsley, oil and lemon juice, and gently toss.
  • (14) Where Brooks was concerned on the hacking charge, there was very little extra evidence to add to that platform of inference.
  • (15) I would like to add the spirit within the dressing room, it is much better now.
  • (16) Tim Potter, managing director of support charity the Fragile X Society , adds that the challenges Tom faces in the film will give "hope and encouragement to many other families".
  • (17) The results add support for the general significance of AAV-2 and specifically the rep gene as tools for down-regulating heterologous gene expression.
  • (18) Your gas bills should give a figure for your usage each quarter – but remember you use very little in the summer months, so you'll need to add up the total across all four quarters.
  • (19) It adds that the number of deals signed in relation to betting shops alone in 2012-13 was 77% greater than the number signed in in 2007-08.
  • (20) Romanians making Polish wages go down.” Then he adds: “The Romanian, he not the worst.

Connect


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To join, or fasten together, as by something intervening; to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to establish a bond or relation between.
  • (v. t.) To associate (a person or thing, or one's self) with another person, thing, business, or affair.
  • (v. i.) To join, unite, or cohere; to have a close relation; as, one line of railroad connects with another; one argument connect with another.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If ascorbic acid was omitted from the culture medium, the extensive new connective tissue matrix was not produced.
  • (2) Future Brown have connections in the fashion industry, last year soundtracking a surreal film for the brand Telfar.
  • (3) This computer is connected to a fileserver via a local area network and is used exclusively for data acquisition.
  • (4) Some of those drugs are able to stimulate the macrophages, even in an aspecific way, via the gut associated lymphatic tissue (GALT), that is in connection with the bronchial associated lymphatic tissue (BALT).
  • (5) Histological studies of nerves 2 years following irradiation demonstrated loss of axons and myelin, with a corresponding increase in endoneurial, perineurial, and epineurial connective tissue.
  • (6) Completeness of isolation of the coronary and systemic circulations was shown by the marked difference in appearance times between the reflex hypotensive responses from catecholamine injections into the isolated coronary circulation and the direct hypertensive response from a similar injection when the circulations were connected as well as by the marked difference between the pressure pulses recorded simultaneously on both sides of the aortic balloon separating the two circulations.4.
  • (7) In these liposomes, the amounts and molecular states of SL-MDP were determined from ESR spectra and are discussed in connection with its immunopotentiating property.
  • (8) I felt a much stronger connection with the kids on my home block, who I rode bikes with nightly.
  • (9) The method used in connection with the well known autoplastic reimplantation not only presents an alternative to the traditional apicoectomy but also provides additional stabilization of the tooth by lengthing the root with cocotostabile and biocompatible A1203 ceramic.
  • (10) Osteogenesis imperfecta is the common term for a heterogeneous group of heritable disorders of connective tissue with lethal and nonlethal forms.
  • (11) More needs to be known about the direct and indirect modulation of cytokine production by cyclosporin A in connective tissues, in order to understand its potential value in clinical disorders.
  • (12) Each L subunit contains 127 residues arranged into 10 beta-strands connected by turns.
  • (13) Furthermore, the local interneurons make extensive efferent synaptic connections with unidentified neurons in the terminal medulla.
  • (14) Chris Jefferies, who has been arrested in connection with the murder of landscape architect Joanna Yeates , was known as a flamboyant English teacher at Clifton College, a co-ed public school.
  • (15) These differences in central connectivity mirror the reports on behavioral dissociation of the facial and vagal gustatory systems.
  • (16) There was a negative connection between the measure of total induced abortions in 1986 and the relative increase of abortions in the districts during 1986-87.
  • (17) Attention is paid to the set of problems connected with the nonthrombotic insufficiency of the conducting veins of the leg.
  • (18) In the case of unilateral blockade at the groin or pelvis, the grafts connect the lymphatics of the thigh of the affected leg with lymphatics in the contralateral healthy groin.
  • (19) In France, there is still a meaningful connection between earnings, social contributions paid in, and benefit paid out.
  • (20) In view of many ethical and legal problems, connected in some countries with obtaining human fetal tissue for transplantation, cross-species transplants would be an attractive alternative.