con·nec·tor

[kuh-nek-ter]
noun
1.
a person or thing that connects.
2.
any of various devices for connecting one object to another.
3.
(formerly) a person who couples railroad cars.
Also, connecter.


Origin:
1785–95; connect + -or2

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connect (kəˈnɛkt) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
vb
1.  to link or be linked together; join; fasten
2.  (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]
 
con'nectible
 
adj
 
con'nectable
 
adj
 
con'nector
 
n
 
con'necter
 
n

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Connectors is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Word Origin & History

connector
1795, "tube for connecting other materials, agent noun (on L. model) from connect and usefully distinct from connecter.
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