Dictionary Definition
link
Noun
1 the means of connection between things linked
in series [syn: nexus]
2 a fastener that serves to join or link; "the
walls are held together with metal links placed in the wet mortar
during construction" [syn: linkup, tie, tie-in]
3 the state of being connected; "the connection
between church and state is inescapable" [syn: connection, connectedness] [ant:
disjunction]
4 a connecting shape [syn: connection, connexion]
5 a unit of length equal to 1/100 of a
chain
6 (computing) an instruction that connects one
part of a program or an element on a list to another program or
list
7 a channel for communication between groups; "he
provided a liaison with the guerrillas" [syn: liaison, contact, inter-group
communication]
8 a two-way radio communication system (usually
microwave); part of a more extensive telecommunication network
[syn: radio
link]
9 an interconnecting circuit between two or more
locations for the purpose of transmitting and receiving data [syn:
data
link]
Verb
1 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" [syn: associate, tie in, relate, colligate, link up, connect] [ant: decouple]
2 connect, fasten, or put together two or more
pieces; "Can you connect the two loudspeakers?"; "Tie the ropes
together"; "Link arms" [syn: connect, tie, link up] [ant:
disconnect]
3 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" [syn: connect, link up, join, unite]
4 link with or as with a yoke; "yoke the oxen
together" [syn: yoke]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /liŋk/
- Rhymes with: -ɪŋk
Etymology 1
From linke probably from *|hlenkr, from . Used in English since the 14th Century.Noun
- A connection
between places, persons, events, or things.
- The mayor’s assistant serves as the link to the media.
- One element of a chain.
- The third link of the silver chain needs to be resoldered.
- The weakest link.
- The third link of the silver chain needs to be resoldered.
- The connection between busses or systems.
- A by-N-link is composed of N lanes.
- Shortened form of hyperlink, especially one
implemented in
HTML.
- The link on the page points to the sports scores.
- A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
Derived terms
Translations
connection
- Chinese: 連結 (liánjíe)
- Czech: spojení, propojení
- Danish: forbindelse
- Dutch: link, verbinding, relatie, koppeling
- Finnish: yhteys
- French: lien
- German: Verbindung
- Hebrew: קשר, קישור
- Italian: collegamento, lega, connessione
- Portuguese: ligação
- Russian: связь
- Spanish: enlace
- Swedish: anknytning, länk
- West Frisian: ferbining, keppeling
element of a chain
- Chinese: 連結 (liánjíe)
- Czech: článek
- Danish: led
- Dutch: schakel
- Finnish: linkki
- French: maillon
- German: Verknüpfung
- Hebrew: חוליה
- Italian: anello
- Portuguese: elo
- Russian: звено
- Spanish: eslabón
- Swedish: länk
- West Frisian: keppeling
computing: connection between busses or systems
- Danish: link, forbindelse
- Dutch: link, verbinding
- Italian: connessione
- Portuguese: ligação
computing: hyperlink
- Czech: odkaz
- Danish: link
- Dutch: link, koppeling, verwijzing
- Finnish: linkki
- German: Link, Hyperlink
- Indonesian: pranala
- Italian: link, collegamento
- Lower Sorbian:
- Polish: link
- Portuguese: ligação
- Romanian: hyperlink, legătură
- Russian: гиперссылка , ссылка
- Spanish: hipervínculo
- Swedish: hyperlänk, länk
Verb
- To connect two or more things.
Translations
connect things
- Danish: forbinde, kæde, sammenkæde
- Dutch: verbinden, linken i hyperlinks
- Finnish: yhdistää
- Indonesian: menghubungkan
- Italian: collegare, connettere, linkare i hyperlinks
- Portuguese: ligar
- Russian: связывать
- Swedish: länka
Etymology 2
Plausibly a modification of linchinus, an alteration of lynchinus, itself from λυχνοσ, akin to λευκοσ.Noun
- A torch, used to light dark streets.
Translations
torch
- Dutch: fakkel, flambouw, toorts
- French: flambeau, torche
Etymology 3
Origin unknown.Translations
skip along
References
- Websters}}
Dutch
Etymology 1
Adjective
German
Adjective
linkHungarian
Etymology
From linkExtensive Definition
__NOEDITSECTION__ Link may refer to:
Computing
Internet
- Reciprocal link, two way links to and from websites, also known as "link swaps", "link exchanges" and "link partners"
- Hyperlink, a reference in a hypertext document to another document or other resource
- Links (web browser), a web browser for Unix-like systems
- Magnet: URI scheme, a URI scheme for magnet links for downloading resources via peer-to-peer networks
- , an HTML element that is used to link web pages with other resources such as Cascading Style Sheets
Storage
- Hard link, a reference or pointer to physical data on a storage volume
- Symbolic link, a special type of file that serves as a reference to another file
Applications
- LINK+, an online library catalog
- The Link Trainer, an early type of flight simulator
Programming
- Linked list, a basic data structure
- Static link, used in programming languages like Pascal to support nested functions, allowing a nested function to access the local variables of its parent
- Linker, a program that takes one or more objects generated by compilers and assembles them into a single executable program
- Links (programming language), a programming language for web applications
Telecommunications
Organizations
- Hong Kong Link, a holding company for toll tunnels and bridges wholly owned by the Government of Hong Kong
- Liberty in North Korea (LiNK), a human rights advocacy group
- LINK or Project LINK, a United Nations project to build global macroeconomic models
- The Link (organisation), a short-lived British organization founded in 1937 "to promote Anglo-German friendship"
- The Link REIT, a real estate investment trust established by the Hong Kong Housing Authority to privatize shopping malls and carparks
- LINKS, a collection of student run St John Ambulance units
- The Links, Incorporated, an African-American female professional service organization
- LINK (UK), an ATM network in the United Kingdom
Mathematics
- Link (knot theory), a union of separated mathematical knots, possibly tangled together
- Link (geometry), a graph derived from edges and corners incident to a vertex
Sport
- Links (golf), a type of golf course
Film
- Link (film), a 1986 horror movie featuring an orangutan of that name
- "Link", the ice age man in the 1992 American comedy film Encino Man
Fictional characters
- Link (The Legend of Zelda), the main character in The Legend of Zelda media
- Link (Matrix character), a character in Matrix media
Video games
- Linking Book, a form of travel in the Myst series of games
- Links (computer game), photorealistic Golf Computer-Simulation by Access Software
Music
- Link (rapper), an American rapper
- Links 2-3-4, a 2001 single by Rammstein
- Link (album), a 1996 Goa trance album by Mathuresh
- Link (song), a single by the Japanese band L'Arc-en-Ciel
- WLNK (107. 9 the Link), a talk/hot adult contemporary radio station in Charlotte, North Carolina
Other
- Link (chain), a single segment of a chain
- Link (unit), a British and U.S. unit of length equal to one hundredth of a chain
- Link Light Rail, a light rail project in Seattle and Tacoma
- Linking col or link, a topographical feature used in determining topographic prominence
- Link, Somerset, a settlement in southwest England
- Link River, a short river in Klamath Falls, Oregon, connecting Upper Klamath Lake to Lake Ewauna
- Link, a single, whole sausage, originally part of a chain of two or more sausages
- Cursive, joined-up or running handwriting
- The mascot for Lincoln High School (Nebraska)
- Missing link, a transitional fossil
- LINK Train, a people-mover train in the Toronto Pearson International Airport in Canada
- Goethe Link Observatory, an astronomical observatory near Brooklyn, Indiana
link in Czech: Link
link in German: Link
link in Spanish: Enlace
link in French: Lien
link in Galician: Enlace
link in Korean: 링크
link in Italian: Link
link in Dutch: Link
link in Japanese: リンク
link in Polish: Link
link in Swedish: Länk
link in Thai: ลิงก์
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accord,
accouple, accumulate, addition, adjunct, affairs, affiliation, affinity, agent, agglutinate, alliance, ally, amass, ankle, appendage, apply, approximation, arm, articulate, articulation, assemblage, assemble, associate, association, band, be continuous, bind, bond, bough, boundary, bracket, branch, bridge, bridge over, broker, bunch, bunch up, butt, catenate, cement, cervix, chain, clap together, clinch, closeness, closure, clot, cluster, collect, combination, combine, come together, component, comprise, concatenate, conglobulate, congregate, conjoin, conjugate, connect, connect up, connectedness, connecting
link, connecting rod, connection, connector, constituent, contiguity, continuate, continue, contrariety, converge, copulate, correlate, couple, coupling, cover, cresset, crowd, date, dealings, deduction, disjunction, distributor, dovetail, draw a parallel,
elbow, element, embrace, encompass, equate, filiation, flambeau, flaming torch,
flare, flock together,
flow together, forgather, form a series,
fuse, fusee, gang around, gang up,
gather, gather around,
gliding joint, glue,
go-between, hand, herd
together, hinge, hinged
joint, hip, hive, homology, horde, huddle, identify, identify with,
imp, include, intercourse, interdependence,
interface, intermediary, intermedium, interrelate, intimacy, jobber, join, joining, joint, junction, juncture, knee, knot, knuckle, lay together, league, leg, liaison, ligament, ligature, limb, link up, linkage, linking, lobe, lobule, lump together, maintain
continuity, marry,
marshal, mass, mediary, mediator, medium, meet, member, merge, middleman, mill, miter, mobilize, mortise, muster, mutual attraction,
nearness, neck, nexus, offshoot, organ, pair, parallel, parallelize, piece together,
pinion, pivot, pivot joint, propinquity, proximity, put together,
rabbet, rally, rally around, ramification, rapport, relate, relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, relativize, rendezvous, roll into one,
run on, runner, scarf, scion, seam, seethe, shoulder, signal flare,
similarity, solder, span, splice, spray, sprig, spur, stick together, stitch, stream, string, string together, surge, suture, swarm, switch, sympathy, symphysis, tail, take in, tape, tendril, thread, throng, tie, tie rod, tie-in, tie-up,
toggle, toggle joint,
torch, twig, unify, union, unite, vinculum, wed, weld, wholesaler, wing, wrist, yoke