Real Dictionary

connect
verb: If a piece of equipment or a place is connected to a source of power or water, it is joined to that source so that it has power or water.
verb: If a telephone operator connects you, he or she enables you to speak to another person by phone.
verb: If one train or plane, for example, connects with another, it arrives at a time which allows passengers to change to the other one in order to continue their journey.
verb: If something or someone connects one thing to another, or if one thing connects to another, the two things are joined together.
verb: If two things or places connect or if something connects them, they are joined and people or things can pass between them.
verb: If you connect a person or thing with something, you realize that there is a link or relationship between them.
verb: If you connect to a particular plane or train, or if another plane or train connects you to it, you change to that plane or train from another one in order to continue your journey.

connect in American English
to join or fasten (two things together, or one thing with or to another); link; couple
adjective: of or pertaining to a connection or connections
intransitive verb: to become connected; join or unite
transitive verb: to join, link, or fasten together; unite or bind

connect in British English
verb: to link or be linked together; join; fasten