(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
1.
If something or someone ~s one thing to another, or if one thing ~s to another, the two things are joined together.
You can ~ the machine to your hi-fi...
The traditional method is to enter the exchanges at night and ~ the wires...
Two cables ~ to each corner of the plate.
...a television camera ~ed to the radio telescope.
= attach
? dis~
V-RECIP: V n to n, V pl-n, V to n, V-ed, also pl-n V
2.
If a piece of equipment or a place is ~ed to a source of power or water, it is joined to that source so that it has power or water.
These appliances should not be ~ed to power supplies...
Ischia was now ~ed to the mainland water supply.
VERB: be V-ed to n, V-ed, also V n to n
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Connect up means the same as ~ .
The shower is easy to install–it needs only to be ~ed up to the hot and cold water supply...
They turned the barricade into a potential death trap by ~ing it up to the mains.
PHRASAL VERB: be V-ed P to n, V n P to n, also V P n (not pron) to n
3.
If a telephone operator ~s you, he or she enables you to speak to another person by telephone.
To call the police, an ambulance or the fire brigade dial 999 and the operator will ~ you...
He asked to be ~ed to the central switchboard.
= put through
VERB: V n, be V-ed to n, also V n to n
4.
If two things or places ~ or if something ~s them, they are joined and people or things can pass between them.
...the long hallway that ~s the rooms...
The fallopian tubes ~ the ovaries with the uterus...
His workshop ~ed with a small building in the garden...
The two rooms have ~ing doors.
V-RECIP: V pl-n, V n with n, V with n, V-ing, also pl-n V
5.
If one train or plane, for example, ~s with another, it arrives at a time which allows passengers to change to the other one in order to continue their journey.
...a train ~ing with a ferry to Ireland...
My ~ing plane didn’t depart for another six hours.
= link up
V-RECIP: V with/to n, V-ing, also pl-n V
6.
If you ~ to a particular plane or train, or if another plane or train ~s you to it, you change to that plane or train from another one in order to continue your journey.
...business travellers wanting to ~ to a long-haul flight...
That will ~ you with time to spare for the seven o’clock Concorde.
VERB: V to n, V n, also V n to n
7.
If you ~ a person or thing with something, you realize that there is a link or relationship between them.
I hoped he would not ~ me with that now-embarrassing review I’d written seven years earlier...
I wouldn’t have ~ed the two things.
= associate
VERB: V n with/to n, V pl-n
8.
Something that ~s a person or thing with something else shows or provides a link or relationship between them.
A search of Brady’s house revealed nothing that could ~ him with the robberies...
What ~s them?
= link
VERB: V n with/to n, V pl-n