Definition of Connection

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Connection

The act of connecting, or the state of being connected; junction; union; alliance; relationship.

That which connects or joins together; bond; tie.

A relation; esp. a person connected with another by marriage rather than by blood; -- used in a loose and indefinite, and sometimes a comprehensive, sense.

The persons or things that are connected; as, a business connection; the Methodist connection.

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Connection Quotations

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
Anais Nin

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.
Sigmund Freud

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
Leo Buscaglia

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
Soren Kierkegaard

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.
Blaise Pascal

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
Virginia Woolf

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
Ambrose Bierce

Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
William Butler Yeats

Connection Translations

connection in Afrikaans is verbinding, konneksie
connection in Danish is forbindelse
connection in Dutch is samenhang, verbinding
connection in Finnish is liitto
connection in French is raccord, connexion, combinaison
connection in Italian is congiuntura, coincidenza
connection in Latin is iunctio
connection in Norwegian is forbindelse

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