link
/ˈlɪŋk/ noun, verb, proper noun
- noun A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas. “The mayor’s assistant serves as the link to the media.”
- noun One element of a chain or other connected series. “The third link of the silver chain needs to be resoldered.”
- noun (computing) The connection between buses or systems. “A by-N-link is composed of N lanes.”
- noun (mathematics) A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
- noun (Sussex) A thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.
- noun (figurative) An individual person or element in a system.
- noun Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.
- noun A sausage that is not a patty.
- verb (transitive) To connect (two or more things).
- verb (intransitive, Internet, of a web page) To contain a hyperlink to another page. “My homepage links to my wife's.”
- verb (transitive, Internet) To supply (someone) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link. “Haven't you seen his website? I'll link you to it.”
- verb (transitive, Internet) To post a hyperlink to. “Stop linking those unfunny comics all the time!”
- verb (transitive) To demonstrate a correlation between (two things).
- verb (software compilation) To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable.
- verb (transitive, slang) To meet with (someone).
- noun (obsolete) A torch, used to light dark streets.
- verb (Scotland, intransitive) To skip or trip along smartly; to go quickly.
- proper noun (rare) A diminutive of the male given name Lincoln.
- proper noun A surname.
- proper noun An unincorporated community in Tyler County, West Virginia, United States
Synonyms
connection band bond nexus tie vinculum affix attach join put together linkup tie-in connectedness connexion liaison contact inter-group communication radio link data link associate tie in relate colligate link up connect unite yoke
Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English linke, lenke, from a merger of Old English hlenċe, hlenċa (“ring; chainlink”) and Old Norse *hlenkr, hlekkr (“ring; chain”); both from Proto-Germanic *hlankiz (“ring; bond; fettle; fetter”), from Proto-Germanic *hlankaz (“bendsome, flexible”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleng-, *klenk- (“to bend; twist; wind”). Used in English since the 14th century. Related to lank.
Cognate with Low German Lenk (“link”), Danish lænke (“chain; link”), Elfdalian lekk (“link”), Icelandic hlekkur (“link”), Norwegian Bokmål lenke (“chain; link”), Norwegian Nynorsk lenke, lenkje (“chain; link”), Swedish länk (“chain; link”).
Plausibly a modification of Medieval Latin linchinus (“candle”), an alteration of Latin lynchinus, itself from Ancient Greek λύχνος (lúkhnos, “lamp”).
Unknown.
Webster’s 1913
- noun A torch made of tow and pitch, or the like. Shak.
- noun A single ring or division of a chain.
- noun 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.
- verb To connect or unite with a link or as with a link; to join; to attach; to unite; to couple.
Etymology [Prob. corrupted from lint and this for lunt a torch, match, D. lont match; akin to G. lunte, cf. MHG. lünden to burn. Cf. Lunt, Linstock.]
Etymology [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.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “link”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details