link

noun links

1. A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas. The mayor’s assistant serves as the link to the media.

   Similar: connection

2. One element of a chain or other connected series. The third link of the silver chain needs to be resoldered.
3. abbreviation Abbreviation of hyperlink The link on the page points to the sports scores.
4. The connection between buses or systems. A by-N-link is composed of N lanes.
5. A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
6. A thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills. They used formerly to live in caves or huts dug into the side of a bank or "link," and lined with heath or straw.
7. figuratively An individual person or element in a system. But know that God is the strongest link.
8. Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain. a link of horsehair
9. A sausage that is not a patty.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
14. in plural The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream. 'Dame Foljambe,' said the old man, 'the march of thy tale is like the course of the Wye, seventeen miles of links and windings down a fair valley five miles long. […]'
15. An introductory cue. Too much talk on a music-based station can cause listeners who tune in for the music to go elsewhere. […] 'Some people will say “your link has to be 45 seconds long” but I don't do that,' explains the programme controller of Trent FM, Dick Stone.

Similar: band, bond, link, nexus, tie, vinculum · Opposite: break, gap

verb links · linking · linked

1. transitive To connect (two or more things). 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.

   Similar: affix

2. Internet, intransitive, of a web page To contain a hyperlink to another page. My homepage links to my wife's.
3. Internet, transitive 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.
4. Internet, transitive To post a hyperlink to. Stop linking those unfunny comics all the time!
5. transitive To demonstrate a correlation between (two things).
6. To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable.
7. slang, transitive To meet with (someone). Linked us, now she don't wanna link them man again / Your ex plays in the Prem but you never see him taking a pen

Similar: attach, join, put together

noun links

1. obsolete A torch, used to light dark streets. Thou hast saved me a thousand marks in links and torches

   Similar: connection

Similar: band, bond, link, nexus, tie, vinculum · Opposite: break, gap

verb links · linking · linked

1. Scotland, intransitive To skip or trip along smartly; to go quickly. On a sudden he was aware of a man linking along at his side. He cried a fine night, and the man replied.

proper noun

1. rare A diminutive of the male given name Lincoln. For my last meeting with them in Berlin, I joined Herndon and Dryhurst while they took their son, Link, shopping for sticker books.
2. A surname.
3. An unincorporated community in Tyler County, West Virginia, United States
4. A hamlet in Burrington parish, North Somerset, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST4759).