vt to associate (a person or thing, or one's self) with another person, thing, business, or affair.
2. connect ·vi to join, unite, or cohere; to have a close relation; as, one line of railroad connects with another; one argument connect with another.
3. connect ·vt 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.