connect with something

connect (up) with (someone or something)

1. To have a positive or meaningful connection with someone, often quickly. I just don't connect with those people—I doubt we have anything in common. I connected with Ashley immediately, and we've been best friends ever since.
2. To communicate with someone. I've been having a hard time connecting with Stephanie, since she's been out of the office every time I've tried to call her.
3. To form a relationship or a group. I'm sure you'll be able to connect with other photography enthusiasts in your new town.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

connect (with something)

in. [for a batter] to hit a ball. He swung but didn’t connect with the ball.
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McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • connect (up) with (someone or something)
  • connect with
  • connect with someone
  • commune
  • commune with
  • commune with (something)
  • fasten
  • connect up
  • dial into
  • a talking shop
References in periodicals archive
"I USED TO BE NORMAL is a rousing and heartwarming account of the universal need to connect with something larger than ourselves.
I may not relate to the whole, but I can connect with something in the process." Workshops at Tasmeem Doha 2019 will include Ajrakh block printing, cross stitch embroidery, wooden spoon carving and recordable greeting cards.
Hopefully you might connect with something like the one Toby Lee took presently fishing in Norway - a monster cod of 81.5lb.
It's a way to express our unique style, feel a sense of accomplishment and connect with something inside ourselves that may lie dormant otherwise.
"I think it's because it's causing plaintiffs to constantly think about how to connect with something in jurors that will motivate them to rule in their favor and award large damages." E33
However, the idea that I was trying to connect with something beyond myself for comfort has made me aware that there is a larger being or energy between us all and in us all.
But it does connect with something powerful in the national mood.
We're about really wanting to show that if you connect with something, if you see something that interests you, it will take on your energy."
At the end of the day, we are all members of the human race, and modern internet applications are making it possible for us to instantly know and connect with something of interest that may be going on thousands of miles away.
We as a band wanted to connect with something uplifting Creative is what we live to feel and a lot of people are wary about that because it's about genuine and authentic emotions."
She said: "But you have to connect with something you're singing about.
They define their lives with political rallies and women's collectives, desperate to connect with something, anything, that will give meaning to their lives.
Part of it may be escapism, part of it a subconscious quest to connect with something significant in an increasing material world.
"It's sometimes difficult to connect with something in the past, but this exhibition helps.