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Connect vs Cops - What's the difference?

connect | cops |

As verbs the difference between connect and cops

is that 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 while cops is (cop).

As a noun cops is

(slang) ; police officers or cops can be (uk|dialect) the connecting crook of a harrow.

connect

English

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.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.
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  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.}}
  • (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.
  • Antonyms

    * disconnect

    cops

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (head)
  • (slang) ; Police officers.
  • * 1986 , Liam Sternberg (performed by The Bangles), Walk Like an Egyptian
  • All the cops in the donut shops say, "Way-oh-way-oh-way-ooo-aaa-ooo"
  • The police, considered as a group entity.
  • * 1906 ,
  • "Maybe he'll git the cops after you, Jack." "I'll watch out fer dat, Nick, an' you must watch out too," answered Jack Sagger.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (cop)
  • Etymology 2

    Noun

  • (UK, dialect) The connecting crook of a harrow.
  • * 1807 , The complete farmer: or, a general dictionary of husbandry
  • It is almost needless to say, that the true point of draught should be exactly in the centre notch of the cops

    Anagrams

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