{
  "id": "connects.verb",
  "term": "connects",
  "sense": "verb",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "interaction_process_arena",
  "domain": "emergent_relation",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "When two things are brought together so that a flow between them can happen and persist.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "flow.movement",
      "interaction.process",
      "persist.continue",
      "structure.arrangement",
      "brought.past-tense",
      "happen.event-occurrence"
    ],
    "interaction": "The brought-together parts form a shared arrangement that allows flow through interaction, sustained over time.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "continuous flow across a junction",
      "enduring connection enabling transfer",
      "bidirectional influence via contact"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station maintains electrical continuity between solar arrays and batteries through rotating joint connectors despite thermal cycling.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Neurotransmitters in the human brain bridge synapses, enabling sustained electrical-chemical signaling between neurons.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2021 Suez Canal blockage disrupted global shipping flows until the Ever Given was refloated and canal operations resumed.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "interaction.process",
      "type": "abstracts",
      "note": "The concept 'connects' abstracts interaction.process by requiring structured, persistent, and directional flow."
    },
    {
      "id": "holes.empty-regions",
      "type": "medium-for",
      "note": "Holes in devices like sockets serve as physical media enabling connections for energy flow."
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "association.relation",
    "links.connection",
    "network.system",
    "online.digital",
    "reference.citation",
    "relation.association",
    "socket.electrical",
    "watch.tool"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "connect",
    "connected",
    "connecting",
    "connects"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added 'brought.past-tense' and 'happen.event-occurrence' to align components with definition; corrected missing reference to 'persist.continue' spelling."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-connects.verb"
}