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UK
/kənˈɛktɪv/
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[ US /kəˈnɛktɪv/ ]
[ US /kəˈnɛktɪv/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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connecting or tending to connect
conjunctive tissue in plants
connective remarks between chapters
connective tissue in animals
NOUN
- an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences
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an instrumentality that connects
he didn't have the right connector between the amplifier and the speakers
he soldered the connection
How To Use connective In A Sentence
- New hardware, software, networking gear, and wireless devices are being woven together by the connective power of the Internet into a potent, upsetting force.
- The networks related to cellular development and connective tissue disorder showed that enzymes such as phosphoglycerate 12 mutase (glycolysis), muscle proteins such as myosin heavy chain 4 (Actin cytoskeleton signaling), nebulin-related anchoring protein (Actin binding protein) were significantly down regulated by TWEAK ( PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- I was tired between synapses and in the connective tissue of organs.
- Other examples of dense regular connective tissue include most ligaments, aponeuroses, and the cornea of the eye.
- We focus on linguistic signals of discourse coherence, such as connectives (because, although) and referential expressions (anaphors, cataphors).
- The old kind -- filled with silicone gel -- were linked to debilitating health problems, so-called connective-tissue diseases such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. Health: New Year, New Breasts?
- Given an inner point in the connective area, by means of a reference line, the next connective line segment can be found quickly and correctly.
- These ideas, embedded in America's founding documents, are the connective cords by which national unity and civic identity have been maintained in the United States from the 1770s until today.
- The assertional analysis identified relationships between nouns, connectives, and operators in phrases.
- The vessel was placed in a Petri dish in phosphate-buffered saline kept on ice and carefully cleaned of adventitial, adipose and connective tissue. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles