different between connect vs league

English

Etymology

From Latin connectere (“fasten together”), from con- (“together”) +? nectere (“bind”).

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??n?kt/
• Hyphenation: con?nect
• Rhymes: -?kt

Verb

connect (third-person singular simple present connects, present participle connecting, simple past and past participle connected)

1. (intransitive, of an object) To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.

   Synonyms: affix, join, put together, unite; see also Thesaurus:join

2. (intransitive, of two objects) To join: to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to each other.

3. (transitive, of an object) To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to be a link between two objects, thereby attaching them to each other.

4. (transitive, of a person) To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to take one object and attach it to another.

5. To join an electrical or telephone line to a circuit or network.

6. To associate; to establish a relation between.

7. To make a travel connection; to switch from one means of transport to another as part of the same trip.

Antonyms

• disconnect

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Catalan: conectar
• ? Galician: conectar
• ? Portuguese: conectar
• ? Spanish: conectar

Translations

Anagrams

• concent

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li??/
• Rhymes: -i??

Etymology 1

From Middle English liege, ligg, lige (“a pact between governments, an agreement, alliance”), from Middle French ligue, from Italian lega, from the verb legare, from Latin lig? (“I tie”).

Noun

league (plural leagues)

1. A group or association of cooperating members.
   • 1668, John Denham, The Passion of Dido for Aeneas

     And let there be / 'Twixt us and them no league, nor amity.

2. (sports) An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship.

3. (informal, rugby) Ellipsis of rugby league

4. (often in the negative) A class or type of people or things that are evenly matched or on the same level.

5. A prefecture-level administrative unit in Inner Mongolia (Chinese: ?).

Derived terms

Related terms

• ally
• alliance

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (r?gu)
• ? Korean: ?? (rigeu)

Translations

Verb

league (third-person singular simple present leagues, present participle leaguing, simple past and past participle leagued)

1. To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support.

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Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English lege (“league”), from Late Latin leuca, leuga (“the Gaulish mile”), from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *lewg? (compare Middle Breton leau, Welsh lew, Breton lev / leo (“league”)).

Noun

league (plural leagues)

1. (measurement) The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three English miles (about five kilometers).
   • 1751-1753, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, History of Louisiana (PG), p. 47

     Seven leagues above the mouth of the river we meet with two other passes, as large as the middle one by which we entered.
2. A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “league”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• Middle English Dictionary, lege