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Connect vs Create - What's the difference?

connect | create |

As verbs the difference between connect and create

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 create is (lb).

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.
  • *
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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

    create

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic)

    Verb

    (creat)
  • To put into existence.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
  • , author= , volume=100, issue=2, page=171, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Well-connected Brains , passage=Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= The new masters and commanders , passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.
  • To design, invest with a new form, shape, etc.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
  • , volume=189, issue=2, page=48, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= The tao of tech , passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content",
  • To be creative, imaginative.
  • To cause, bring a (non-object) about by action.
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  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace.
  • To confer a title of nobility, not by descent, but by giving a title either initiated or restored for the incumbent.
  • To confer a cardinalate, which can not be inherited, but most often bears a pre?existent title (notably a church in Rome).
  • Synonyms

    * (to put into existence) generate * invent

    Antonyms

    * (to put into existence) annihilate, extinguish * imitate

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) Created, resulting from creation.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Hearts create of duty and zeal.

    Anagrams

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