connecting
- 1Present participle and gerund of connect.
The technician was connecting the new router when the power failed.
Connecting the clues took the detective several long weeks.
Note
One spelling does two grammatical jobs here. After a form of be it builds the progressive (they were connecting the pipes). Without be, it works as a noun that can still take an object (connecting the speakers is easy). It also carries every use of connect, with or without an object: wiring a phone line into a network, two parts connecting to each other, or a punch connecting with its target.
connecting is a form of connect
connect, verb: To join or fasten two things together, or to be joined to something or able to fit together with it. Full entry
- Spelling
- connect → connecting: add -ing
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