Joined
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To connect or combine into one; to put together.
Example sentence: Back in 1995, I quit my job and joined AmeriCorps at the Hill House in Pittsburgh's legendary Hill District.
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: Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn't looking down at a device in their hands? We've become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us.