(tr) to relate or associate: I connect him with my childhood
3.
(tr) to establish telephone communications with or between
4.
(intr) to be meaningful or meaningfully related
5.
(intr) (of two public vehicles, such as trains or buses) to have the arrival of one timed to occur just before the departure of the other, for the convenient transfer of passengers
6.
informal (intr) to hit, punch, kick, etc, solidly
7.
informal (US), (Canadian) (intr) to be successful
8.
slang (intr) to find a source of drugs, esp illegal drugs
[C17: from Latin connectere to bind together, from nectere to bind, tie]