English Explanatory Dictionary

link

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
  2. One element of a chain or other connected series.
  3. Abbreviation of hyperlink.
  4. The connection between buses or systems.
  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.
  7. An individual person or element in a system
  8. Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.
  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.
verb
  1. To connect (two or more things).
  2. To contain a hyperlink to another page.
  3. To supply (someone) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.
  4. To post a hyperlink to.
  5. To demonstrate a correlation between (two things).
  6. To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable.
  7. To meet with (someone).
noun
  1. A torch, used to light dark streets.
verb
  1. To skip or trip along smartly; to go quickly.
name
  1. A diminutive of the male given name Lincoln.
  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).

Pronunciation

/ˈlɪŋk/ [ˈlɪŋk] En-us-link.ogg /ˈliŋk/ [ˈliŋk] ~ [ˈlɪ̝ŋk] /ˈlæŋk/ [ˈlæŋk] /ˈleɪ̯ŋk/ [ˈleɪ̯ŋk] /ˈlɛ̃ŋk/ [ˈlɛ̃ŋk] /lɪŋk/

Word forms

link links linking linked

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. Cognates 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”).

Synonyms

band bond link nexus tie vinculum connection attach join put together affix

Antonyms

break gap

Related words

junction Malvern Link

Derived words

a chain is only as strong as its weakest link airlink association link bloodlink blue link Brunnian link cannot-link causal link Centrelink chainlink clean link coat link comm link commlink cross-link cufflink cuff link dancing links datalink dead link disintegrating link downlink draglink drawlink drink link dynamic-link library external link fat link firm link forward link Harbor Link hard link Hopf link hot link hotlink inlink internal link linkage linkback link-baiting link-bait link bait link bar link boy link building link-dead link doping link editor link exchange link farm linkfest linkful linkification linkify link juice link-language link language linkless linklike linklist

Translations

Arabic: وَصْلَة Arabic: رَابِط Armenian: կապ Armenian: հղում Aromanian: ligãturã Azerbaijani: əlaqə Azerbaijani: keçid Azerbaijani: link Belarusian: су́вязь Belarusian: злучэ́нне Belarusian: злучэ́ньне Belarusian: спасы́лка Belarusian: лінк Bulgarian: съедине́ние Bulgarian: свръ́зка Bulgarian: линк Bulgarian: връ́зка Bulgarian: хипервръ́зка Catalan: lligam Catalan: vincle Catalan: enllaç Chinese Mandarin: 連結 /连结 Chinese Mandarin: 鏈接 /链接 Czech: spojení Czech: propojení Czech: odkaz Czech: link Danish: forbindelse Danish: link Dutch: link Dutch: verbinding Dutch: relatie Dutch: koppeling Dutch: verwijzing Esperanto: ligo Esperanto: ligilo Estonian: ühendus Estonian: link Finnish: yhteys Finnish: sidos Finnish: linkki French: lien French: connexion French: rapport French: lien hypertexte French: hyperlien West-Frisian: ferbining West-Frisian: keppeling Galician: ligazón Galician: vínculo Galician: hiperligazón Georgian: კავშირი Georgian: ბმული Georgian: ლინკი German: Verbindung German: Link German: Hyperlink German: Verweis Hebrew: קֶשֶׁר Hebrew: קישור \ קִשּׁוּר Hebrew: קישור \ קִשּׁוּר m לִינְק Hungarian: kapcsolat Hungarian: kapcsolódás Hungarian: hivatkozás Hungarian: link Icelandic: tengsl Ido: ligilo Ido: hiperligilo Indonesian: pranala Indonesian: tautan Italian: collegamento Italian: lega Italian: legame Italian: connessione Italian: rapporto Italian: link Japanese: 連結 Japanese: リンク Javanese: pranala Kabuverdianu: élu Korean: 연결 Korean: 련결 Korean: 링크 Ladino: atamiento Ladino: atadijo Latin: vinculum Latvian: saikne Latvian: saite Lithuanian: ryšys Lithuanian: saitas Macedonian: врска Macedonian: хиперврска Macedonian: поврзница Macedonian: линк Malay: pautan Māori: hononga Māori: taukaea Khiamniungan Naga: já Norman: lian Norwegian Bokmål: forbindelse Norwegian Bokmål: lenke Iranian Persian: پِیْوَنْد Iranian Persian: لینْک
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