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connection
Overview of noun connection
The noun connection has 9 senses (first 5 from tagged texts)
1. (14) connection, connexion, connectedness -- (a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it); "there was a connection between eating that pickle and having that nightmare")
2. (11) connection, link, connectedness -- (the state of being connected; "the connection between church and state is inescapable")
3. (4) connection, connexion, connector, connecter, connective -- (an instrumentality that connects; "he soldered the connection"; "he didn't have the right connector between the amplifier and the speakers")
4. (2) connection -- ((usually plural) a person who is influential and to whom you are connected in some way (as by family or friendship); "he has powerful connections")
5. (1) association, connection, connexion -- (the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination; "conditioning is a form of learning by association")
6. connection, connexion, link -- (a connecting shape)
7. connection -- (a supplier (especially of narcotics))
8. connection, connexion -- (shifting from one form of transportation to another; "the plane was late and he missed his connection in Atlanta")
9. joining, connection, connexion -- (the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication); "the joining of hands around the table"; "there was a connection via the internet")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun connection
9 senses of connection
Sense 1
connection, connexion, connectedness
=> relation
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
connection, link, connectedness
=> union, unification
=> state
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
connection, connexion, connector, connecter, connective
=> instrumentality, instrumentation
=> artifact, artefact
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 4
connection
=> acquaintance, friend
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 5
association, connection, connexion
=> memory, remembering
=> basic cognitive process
=> process, cognitive process, mental process, operation, cognitive operation
=> cognition, knowledge, noesis
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 6
connection, connexion, link
=> shape, form
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 7
connection
=> supplier, provider
=> businessperson, bourgeois
=> capitalist
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 8
connection, connexion
=> transportation, transfer, transferral, conveyance
=> movement
=> change
=> action
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 9
joining, connection, connexion
=> change of integrity
=> change
=> action
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun connection
6 of 9 senses of connection
Sense 1
connection, connexion, connectedness
=> series
=> alliance, bond
=> linkage
=> communication
=> concatenation
=> bridge
=> involvement
=> relevance, relevancy
=> relatedness
Sense 2
connection, link, connectedness
=> contact
=> concatenation
=> interconnection, interconnectedness
=> coherence, coherency, cohesion, cohesiveness
Sense 3
connection, connexion, connector, connecter, connective
=> attachment, bond
=> backbone
=> ground, earth
=> hitch
=> hookup
=> jumper
=> junction, conjunction
=> slip ring
=> telephone line, phone line, telephone circuit, subscriber line, line
=> temporary hookup, patch
=> yoke, coupling
Sense 5
association, connection, connexion
=> colligation
Sense 6
connection, connexion, link
=> node
=> articulation, join, joint, juncture, junction
Sense 9
joining, connection, connexion
=> hit
=> interconnection
=> intersection
=> approximation, bringing close together
=> concatenation
=> convergence, converging, convergency
=> encounter, coming upon
=> articulation
=> junction, adjunction
=> fastening, attachment
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun connection
9 senses of connection
Sense 1
connection, connexion, connectedness
=> relation
Sense 2
connection, link, connectedness
=> union, unification
Sense 3
connection, connexion, connector, connecter, connective
=> instrumentality, instrumentation
Sense 4
connection
=> acquaintance, friend
Sense 5
association, connection, connexion
=> memory, remembering
Sense 6
connection, connexion, link
=> shape, form
Sense 7
connection
=> supplier, provider
Sense 8
connection, connexion
=> transportation, transfer, transferral, conveyance
Sense 9
joining, connection, connexion
=> change of integrity
Antonyms of noun connection
Member Holonyms of noun connection
Substance Holonyms of noun connection
Part Holonyms of noun connection
Member Meronyms of noun connection
Substance Meronyms of noun connection
Part Meronyms of noun connection
Meronyms of noun connection
Holonyms of noun connection
Attributes of noun connection
1 of 9 senses of connection
Sense 1
connection, connexion, connectedness
=> connected (vs. unconnected)
=> unconnected (vs. connected)
Derived Forms of noun connection
5 of 9 senses of connection
Sense 3
connection, connexion, connector, connecter, connective
RELATED TO>(verb) connect#10
=> plug in, connect
Sense 4
connection
RELATED TO>(verb) connect#8
=> connect
Sense 5
association, connection, connexion
RELATED TO>(verb) connect#2
=> associate, tie in, relate, link, colligate, link up, connect
Sense 8
connection, connexion
RELATED TO>(verb) connect#7
=> connect
Sense 9
joining, connection, connexion
RELATED TO>(verb) connect#6
=> connect
RELATED TO>(verb) connect#9
=> get in touch, touch base, connect
RELATED TO>(verb) connect#4
=> connect
Domain of noun connection
2 of 9 senses of connection
Sense 4
connection
USAGE>(noun) plural#1, plural form#1
Sense 7
connection
TOPIC>(noun) narcotic#1
Domain Terms of noun connection
Familiarity of noun connection
connection used as a noun is familiar (polysemy count =9)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun connection
9 senses of connection
Sense 1
connection, connexion, connectedness
> relation
=> possession
=> social relation
=> position, spatial relation
=> ownership
=> causality
=> relationship, human relationship
=> function
=> association
=> logical relation
=> mathematical relation
=> foundation
=> connection, connexion, connectedness
=> unconnectedness
=> linguistic relation
=> part, portion, component part, component
=> affinity, kinship
=> kinship, family relationship, relationship
=> magnitude relation, quantitative relation
=> control
=> business relation
=> reciprocality, reciprocity
=> interrelation, interrelationship, interrelatedness
=> temporal relation
=> comparison
=> opposition, oppositeness
=> change
Sense 2
connection, link, connectedness
> union, unification
=> coalition, fusion
=> connection, link, connectedness
=> junction, conjunction, conjugation, colligation
=> association
=> marriage
=> syncretism
Sense 3
connection, connexion, connector, connecter, connective
> instrumentality, instrumentation
=> ceramic
=> connection, connexion, connector, connecter, connective
=> container
=> conveyance, transport
=> device
=> equipment
=> furnishing
=> hardware, ironware
=> implement
=> means
=> system
=> toiletry, toilet article
=> weaponry, arms, implements of war, weapons system, munition
=> medium
Sense 4
connection
> acquaintance, friend
=> bunkmate
=> campmate
=> connection
=> end man
=> homeboy
=> messmate
=> pickup
=> schoolmate, classmate, schoolfellow, class fellow
Sense 5
association, connection, connexion
> memory, remembering
=> short-term memory, STM, immediate memory
=> working memory
=> long-term memory, LTM
=> retrieval
=> recall, recollection, reminiscence
=> recognition, identification
=> association, connection, connexion
=> retrospection
Sense 6
connection, connexion, link
> shape, form
=> solid
=> plane, sheet
=> natural shape
=> flare, flair
=> figure
=> line
=> angular shape, angularity
=> round shape
=> distorted shape, distortion
=> amorphous shape
=> connection, connexion, link
=> circle
=> square
=> triangle
=> column, tower, pillar
Sense 7
connection
> supplier, provider
=> black marketeer
=> caterer
=> connection
=> dispenser
=> distributor, distributer
=> purveyor
=> recruiter
=> stockist
=> sutler, victualer, victualler, provisioner
Sense 8
connection, connexion
> transportation, transfer, transferral, conveyance
=> transshipment
=> airlift, lift
=> connection, connexion
=> delivery, bringing
=> drive
=> carry
=> lighterage
=> resettlement, relocation
=> teleportation
Sense 9
joining, connection, connexion
> change of integrity
=> joining, connection, connexion
=> breakage, break, breaking
=> explosion, burst
=> burning, combustion
=> combination, combining, compounding
=> opening
=> separation
=> transformation, translation
=> transformation
=> filling
=> hardening
=> damage, harm, hurt, scathe
Meronyms of noun connection
9 senses of connection
Sense 3
connection, connexion, connector, connecter, connective
=> instrumentality, instrumentation
=> artifact, artefact
=> whole, unit
HAS PART: part, portion
HAS PART: section, segment
Sense 4
connection
=> acquaintance, friend
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
HAS PART: personality
HAS PART: trait
HAS PART: character, fiber, fibre
HAS PART: thoughtfulness
HAS PART: responsibility, responsibleness
HAS PART: integrity
HAS PART: nature
HAS PART: human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh
=> organism, being
HAS SUBSTANCE: tissue
HAS PART: cell
HAS PART: cell membrane, cytomembrane, plasma membrane
HAS PART: energid, protoplast
HAS PART: cytoplasm, cytol
HAS PART: cytoskeleton
HAS PART: microsome
HAS PART: Golgi body, Golgi apparatus, Golgi complex, dictyosome
HAS PART: nucleus, cell nucleus, karyon
HAS PART: nucleolus, nucleole
HAS PART: chromatin, chromatin granule
HAS PART: achromatin
HAS PART: linin
HAS PART: chromosome
HAS PART: nucleolus organizer, nucleolus organiser, nucleolar organizer, nucleolar organiser
HAS PART: gene, cistron, factor
HAS PART: chromatid
HAS PART: centromere, kinetochore
HAS PART: telomere
HAS PART: organelle, cell organelle, cell organ
HAS PART: vacuole
HAS PART: body part
HAS PART: corpus
Sense 7
connection
=> supplier, provider
=> businessperson, bourgeois
=> capitalist
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
HAS PART: personality
HAS PART: trait
HAS PART: character, fiber, fibre
HAS PART: thoughtfulness
HAS PART: responsibility, responsibleness
HAS PART: integrity
HAS PART: nature
HAS PART: human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh
=> organism, being
HAS SUBSTANCE: tissue
HAS PART: cell
HAS PART: cell membrane, cytomembrane, plasma membrane
HAS PART: energid, protoplast
HAS PART: cytoplasm, cytol
HAS PART: cytoskeleton
HAS PART: microsome
HAS PART: Golgi body, Golgi apparatus, Golgi complex, dictyosome
HAS PART: nucleus, cell nucleus, karyon
HAS PART: nucleolus, nucleole
HAS PART: chromatin, chromatin granule
HAS PART: achromatin
HAS PART: linin
HAS PART: chromosome
HAS PART: nucleolus organizer, nucleolus organiser, nucleolar organizer, nucleolar organiser
HAS PART: gene, cistron, factor
HAS PART: chromatid
HAS PART: centromere, kinetochore
HAS PART: telomere
HAS PART: organelle, cell organelle, cell organ
HAS PART: vacuole
HAS PART: body part
HAS PART: corpus
Sense 8
connection, connexion
=> transportation, transfer, transferral, conveyance
HAS PART: pickup
Holonyms of noun connection
Grep of noun connection
connection
disconnection
interconnection
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