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Connective   Listen
adjective
Connective  adj.  Connecting, or adapted to connect; involving connection.
Connection tissue (Anat.) See Conjunctive tissue, under Conjunctive.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Connective" Quotes from Famous Books



... eye to the judgment of the many, it would have been necessary to apologize for its literal exactness. Had I been anxious to gratify false taste with respect to composition, I should doubtless have attended less to the precise meaning of the original, have omitted almost all connective Particles, have divided long periods into a number of short ones, and branched out the strong and deep river of Plato's language into smooth-gliding, shallow, and feeble streams; but as the present ...
— Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato • Thomas Taylor

... are usually grouped together under the heading of "inflammation" of varying degree—acute, subacute and chronic.) Degeneration and death of cells, haemorrhages, serous and fibrinous exudations, leucocyte emigration, proliferation of connective tissue and other cells, may be mentioned as some of the fundamental changes. Acute inflammation of various types, suppuration, granulation-tissue formation, &c., represent some of the complex resulting processes. The changes ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 - "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" • Various

... answer to the second question. Slowness of movement is obtained by introducing long descriptions, analyses of characters, and information regarding the history or customs of the time. Sentences become long and involved; dependent clauses abound; connective words and phrases are frequent. Needless details may be introduced until the story becomes wearisome; it has almost ...
— English: Composition and Literature • W. F. (William Franklin) Webster

... Mr. Cranze's connective remarks broke off here for the time being. He found himself suddenly plucked away from the bunk by a pair of iron hands, and hustled out through the state-room door. He was a tall man, and the hands thrust him from ...
— A Master of Fortune • Cutcliffe Hyne

... achieving a long hoped for work, in which of course I have to pay the printers—i.e. to leave in some connective available form whatever miscellaneous important printing I have ever published, ethico-political, theological, economical, historical, aesthetic, critical, mathematical: indeed, the mathematical is all ...
— Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman • Giberne Sieveking



Words linked to "Connective" :   function word, temporary hookup, instrumentation, continuative, junction, closed-class word, patch, connection, connect, telephone line, connector, coordinating conjunction, attachment, hitch, backbone, slip ring, hookup, bond, connecter, ground, yoke, subordinating conjunction, conjunctive, instrumentality, connective tissue, subscriber line, earth



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