Connection vs Import - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) The act of connecting.
The point at which two or more things are connected.
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A feeling of understanding and ease of communication between two or more people.
An established communications or transportation link.
(transport) A transfer from one transportation vehicle to another in scheduled transportation service
A kinship relationship between people.
(countable) Something brought in from an exterior source, especially for sale or trade.
(uncountable) The practice of importing.
(uncountable) Significance, importance.
To bring (something) in from a foreign country, especially for sale or trade.
To load a file into a software application from another version or system.
To be important; to be significant; to be of consequence.
* 1661 , Thomas Salusbury:
To be of importance to (someone or something).
* 1593 , Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost :
* Dryden
To be incumbent on (someone to do something).
* 1762 , David Hume, The History of England :
To be important or crucial to (that something happen).
* 1819 , Shelley, "The Cenci":
To mean, signify.
* Hooker
(archaic) To express, to imply.
Connection is a related term of import.
As nouns the difference between connection and import
is that connection is (uncountable) the act of connecting while import is import (the act of importing).connection
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Alternative forms
* connexion , (abbreviation)Noun
- the connection between overeating and obesity
- My headache has no connection with me going out last night.
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- As we were the only people in the room to laugh at the joke, I felt a connection between us.
- computers linked by a network connection
- I was talking to him, but there was lightning and we lost the connection .
- The bus was late so he missed his connection at Penn Station and had to wait six hours for the next train.
import
English
Etymology 1
(verb) From (etyl) importen, from (etyl) importer, from (etyl) .Noun
(wikipedia import)Synonyms
* (significance) importancy, importance, meaning, significance, weightAntonyms
* (practice of importing) export * (something brought in from a foreign country) export * insignificanceVerb
(en verb)- How can I import files from older versions of this application?
Quotations
* (English Citations of "import")Derived terms
* importable * important * importer * importationAntonyms
* (bring in from a foreign country) exportEtymology 2
From (etyl) importare, and (etyl) importer, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- See how much it importeth to learn to take Time by the Fore-Top.''
- This Letter is mistooke: it importeth none here: It is writ to laquenetta.
- If I endure it, what imports it you?
- It imports us to get all the aid and assistance we can.
- It much imports your house That all should be made clear.
- Every petition always import a multitude of speakers together.