Difference between Attached and Connected

What is the difference between Attached and Connected?

Attached as a verb is to fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively). while Connected as a verb is (of an object) to join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.

Attached

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: In a romantic or sexual relationship. Broadly joined to a stem or stipe, but not decurrent. Of a residential building, sharing walls with similar buildings on two, usually opposite, sides.

Example sentence: Black people in America, people from the struggle, immigrants, it's no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked to create - in one generation - closing the gap. That's why we so Doomsday about getting to the check: 'cause it's life or death for real.

Connected

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: (usually with "well-"): Having favorable rapport with a powerful entity.A metric space is connected if it cannot be partitioned into two nonempty subsets which are both open and closed.A directed graph is connected if for every pair of vertices, there is a path, either directed or undirected, connecting those vertices.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: (of an object) To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.

Example sentence: With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea.

We hope you now know whether to use Attached or Connected in your sentence.

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