Verb

(en verb)

(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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(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.

Verb

(en verb)

To make up, prepare, compound, construct, assemble, form, mix, mingle or put together by combining ingredients or materials; to concoct.

The woman confected a home-remedy for the traveler's illness .

The young bride's friends confected a dress from odds and ends of fabric.

[My joys] are still confected with some fears.'' -- ''Stirling

* 1629 , , Travels in Persia

*:Of this were confected the famous everlasting lamps and tapers.

(obsolete) To make into a confection; to prepare as a candy, sweetmeat, preserve, or the like.

*1613 , , Brittania's Pastorals , book 1, song 2

*:Saffron confected in Cilicia,