connected
v.v. to join two or more things together. You use this when you link parts of a machine, ideas, or people.
v. to join or link two or more things together; to establish a communication or logical link. Transitive when used with an object, or intransitive when describing two things meeting.
You need to connect the printer to your computer.
The new bridge will connect the two islands for the first time in history.
The researcher attempted to connect the recent spike in local temperatures to broader patterns of global climate change observed over the last decade.
Often used with the preposition 'to' or 'with'.
I connected to the internet with my phoneI connected my phone to the internetWhen using 'connect' to mean joining two things, the device being joined is usually the direct object.