Adhere vs Connect - What's the difference?
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To stick fast or , as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura.
To hold, be attached, or devoted; to remain fixed, either by personal union or conformity of faith, principle, or opinion; as, men adhere to a party, a cause, a leader, a church.
To be consistent or coherent; to be in accordance; to agree.
(of an object) To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.
(of two objects) To join: to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to each other.
(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.
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, title= (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.
To join an electrical or telephone line to a circuit or network.
To associate.
To make a travel connection; to switch from one means of transport to another as part of the same trip.
As verbs the difference between adhere and connect
is that adhere is while connect is (of an object) to join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.adhere
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