LINK

link, linkup, tie, tie-in

(noun) a fastener that serves to join or connect; “the walls are held together with metal links placed in the wet mortar during construction”

link, data link

(noun) an interconnecting circuit between two or more locations for the purpose of transmitting and receiving data

liaison, link, contact, inter-group communication

(noun) a channel for communication between groups; “he provided a liaison with the guerrillas”

link

(noun) (computing) an instruction that connects one part of a program or an element on a list to another program or list

link

(noun) a unit of length equal to 1/100 of a chain

link, nexus

(noun) the means of connection between things linked in series

connection, connexion, link

(noun) a connecting shape

connection, link, connectedness

(noun) the state of being connected; “the connection between church and state is inescapable”

associate, tie in, relate, link, colligate, link up, connect

(verb) make a logical or causal connection; “I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind”; “colligate these facts”; “I cannot relate these events at all”

connect, link, tie, link up

(verb) connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces; “Can you connect the two loudspeakers?”; “Tie the ropes together”; “Link arms”

yoke, link

(verb) link with or as with a yoke; “yoke the oxen together”

connect, link, link up, join, unite

(verb) be or become joined or united or linked; “The two streets connect to become a highway”; “Our paths joined”; “The travelers linked up again at the airport”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Proper noun

Link

(rare) A diminutive of the male given name Lincoln

Anagrams

• kiln

Etymology 1

Noun

link (plural links)

A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.

One element of a chain or other connected series.

Abbreviation of hyperlink.

(computing) The connection between buses or systems.

(mathematics) A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.

(Sussex) a thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.

(figurative) an individual person or element in a system

Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.

A sausage that is not a patty.

(kinematics) Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, such as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc, by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.

(engineering) Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (in steam engines) the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.

(surveying) The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in length.

(chemistry) A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.

(plural) The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream.

Synonyms

• (connection between things): connection; See also link

Holonyms

• (element of a connected series): chain

Hyponyms

• backlink

• deep link

• hyperlink

• missing link

• permalink

• sausage link

• surface link

• symlink

Verb

link (third-person singular simple present links, present participle linking, simple past and past participle linked)

(transitive) To connect two or more things.

(intransitive, of a Web page) To contain a hyperlink to another page.

(transitive, Internet) To supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.

(transitive, Internet) To post a hyperlink to.

(transitive) To demonstrate a correlation between two things.

(compilation) To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable.

Synonyms

• (to connect two or more things): affix, attach, join, put together; see also join

Etymology 2

Noun

link (plural links)

(obsolete) A torch, used to light dark streets.

Etymology 3

Verb

link (third-person singular simple present links, present participle linking, simple past and past participle linked)

(Scotland, intransitive) To skip or trip along smartly; to go quickly.

Anagrams

• kiln

Source: Wiktionary


Link, n. Etym: [Prob. corrupted from lint and this for lunt a torch, match, D. lont match; akin to G. lunte, cf. MHG. lĂĽnden to burn. Cf. Lunt, Linstock.]

Definition: A torch made of tow and pitch, or the like. Shak.

Link, n. Etym: [OE. linke, AS. hlence; akin to Sw. länk ring of a chain, Dan. lænke chain, Icel. hlekkr; cf. G. gelenk joint, link, ring of a chain, lenken to bend.]

1. A single ring or division of a chain.

2. Hence: Anything, whether material or not, which binds together, or connects, separate things; a part of a connected series; a tie; a bond. "Links of iron." Shak.

The link of brotherhood, by which One common Maker bound me to the kind. Cowper. And so by double links enchained themselves in lover's life. Gascoigne.

3. Anything doubled and closed like a link; as, a link of horsehair. Mortimer.

4. (Kinematics)

Definition: Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.

5. (Mach.)

Definition: Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (Steam Engine), the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.

6. (Surveying)

Definition: The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in length. Cf. Chain, n., 4.

7. (Chem.)

Definition: A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; -- applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.

8. pl.

Definition: Sausages; -- because linked together. [Colloq.]

Link, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Linked; p. pr. & vb. n. Linking.]

Definition: To connect or unite with a link or as with a link; to join; to attach; to unite; to couple. All the tribes and nations that composed it [the Roman Empire] were linked together, not only by the same laws and the same government, but by all the facilities of commodious intercourse, and of frequent communication. Eustace.

Link, v. i.

Definition: To be connected. No one generation could link with the other. Burke.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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