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Refer vs Connected - What's the difference?

refer | connected |

As verbs the difference between refer and connected

is that refer is to direct the attention of while connected is (connect).

As an adjective connected is

(usually with "well-"): having favorable rapport with a powerful entity.

refer

English

Verb

(referr)
  • To direct the attention of.
  • The shop assistant referred me to the help desk on ground floor.
  • To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.
  • He referred the matter to the principal.
    to refer a patient to a psychiatrist
  • To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation.
  • He referred the phenomena to electrical disturbances.
  • (rfex) To allude to, make a reference or allusion to.
  • # (grammar) to be referential to another element in a sentence
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  • Synonyms

    * delegate * direct

    Derived terms

    * refer to * refer someone to

    Anagrams

    * English palindromes ----

    connected

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (usually with "well-"): Having favorable rapport with a powerful entity.
  • (mathematics, topology, of a topological space) That cannot be partitioned into two nonempty open sets.
  • (mathematics, graph theory, of a directed graph) Having a path, either directed]] or undirected, connecting every pair of [[vertex, vertices.
  • Antonyms

    * disconnected

    Verb

    (head)
  • (connect)