Hookup vs Connect - What's the difference?
hookup | connect |
For the purpose of connecting.
A connection.
A brief sexual relationship or encounter; a fling.
:"The latter participant, for instance, met his two most recent partners at bars, and expressed strong ambivalence and dislike of meeting partners online, but reported half a dozen additional hookups with partners met online."[http://www.policyresourcegroup.com/documents/MSMBaileyNA_2010.pdf]
A sexual partner
:"As a webmaster, yeah, I would have to say that the predominant way of finding a hookup or sexual partner would be going online."[http://www.policyresourcegroup.com/documents/MSMBaileyNA_2010.pdf]
(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 an adjective hookup
is for the purpose of connecting.As a noun hookup
is a connection.As a verb 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.hookup
English
Adjective
(-)- I need to buy some hookup wire .
Noun
(en noun)- The plumber came to fix the sewer hookup .
Synonyms
* (brief sexual relations) (l)connect
English
Verb
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