connective
serving or tending to connect: connective remarks between chapters.
Origin of connective
1Other words from connective
- con·nec·tive·ly, adverb
- con·nec·tiv·i·ty [kon-ek-tiv-i-tee], /ˌkɒn ɛkˈtɪv ɪ ti/, noun
- non·con·nec·tive, adjective, noun
- non·con·nec·tive·ly, adverb
- non·con·nec·tiv·i·ty, noun
- pre·con·nec·tive, adjective
- qua·si-con·nec·tive, adjective
- qua·si-con·nec·tive·ly, adverb
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How to use connective in a sentence
Foot massagers use different methods to vibrate, stimulate, and pressurize the muscles and connective tissues in the feet.
Best foot massager for for a spa experience in your home | Irena Collaku | July 28, 2021 | Popular-ScienceWhile others may gaze across the open ocean and see a vast blue nothingness, islanders are more likely to see the realm of voyagers, the connective tissue between far-flung relatives, the waters that birthed their ancestors.
How Taboos Can Help Protect the Oceans - Issue 100: Outsiders | Krista Langlois | May 26, 2021 | NautilusVancouver city planners sought her advice on how to design a city that mimics the connective patterns of Northwest forests.
This protein gets stuck in cells’ membranes and can’t be recycled for fresh proteins, causing the cells to prematurely age and making blood vessels and connective tissue stiffer, Kleinman says.
The FDA has approved the first drug to treat the rapid-aging disease progeria | Carolyn Wilke | November 25, 2020 | Science NewsHe described Arise’s platform as “connective tissue” that linked Arise’s corporate clients with its network of small businesses and their agents.
Meet the Customer Service Reps for Disney and Airbnb Who Have to Pay to Talk to You | by Ken Armstrong, Justin Elliott and Ariana Tobin | October 2, 2020 | ProPublica
The liver cells fulfill about 3,000 biochemical functions but they are massively reduced by tough connective tissue.
Anas al-Liby’s Health Care During Terror Trial Could Gouge Taxpayers | Jamie Dettmer | October 22, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIn that dawn light, Mika is always there in a really connective and supportive way.
Sentences become long and involved; dependent clauses abound; connective words and phrases are frequent.
English: Composition and Literature | W. F. (William Franklin) WebsterGenerally the vowel e in this situation, is a connective, or introduced merely for the sake of euphony.
The Indian in his Wigwam | Henry R. SchoolcraftA nerve consists of a bundle of such tiny axons, bound together by connective tissue.
A Civic Biology | George William HunterSpecial nerve endings, called the tactile corpuscles, are found there, each inclosed in a sheath or capsule of connective tissue.
A Civic Biology | George William HunterThey are held together with a tough, stringy material called connective tissue.
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British Dictionary definitions for connective
/ (kəˈnɛktɪv) /
serving to connect or capable of connecting
a thing that connects
grammar logic
a less common word for conjunction (def. 3)
any word that connects phrases, clauses, or individual words
a symbol used in a formal language in the construction of compound sentences from simpler sentences, corresponding to terms such as or, and, not, etc, in ordinary speech
botany the tissue of a stamen that connects the two lobes of the anther
anatomy a nerve-fibre bundle connecting two nerve centres
Derived forms of connective
- connectively, adverb
- connectivity (ˌkɒnɛkˈtɪvɪtɪ), noun
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