Link
[lɪŋk]
Definition
(noun.) a fastener that serves to join or connect; 'the walls are held together with metal links placed in the wet mortar during construction'.
(noun.) an interconnecting circuit between two or more locations for the purpose of transmitting and receiving data.
(noun.) (computing) an instruction that connects one part of a program or an element on a list to another program or list.
(noun.) a unit of length equal to 1/100 of a chain.
(noun.) the means of connection between things linked in series.
Edited by Jonathan--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A torch made of tow and pitch, or the like.
(n.) A single ring or division of a chain.
(n.) Hence: Anything, whether material or not, which binds together, or connects, separate things; a part of a connected series; a tie; a bond.
(n.) Anything doubled and closed like a link; as, a link of horsehair.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; -- applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
(n.) Sausages; -- because linked together.
(v. t.) To connect or unite with a link or as with a link; to join; to attach; to unite; to couple.
(v. i.) To be connected.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Connective, copula, VINCULUM, bond.
v. a. Connect, conjoin, join, unite, bind, tie.
Typist: Meg
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See CONNECTION]
Edited by Cheryl
Definition
n. a crook or winding of a river.—n.pl. Links a stretch of flat or gently undulating ground along a sea-shore on which the game of golf is played.
n. a light or torch of pitch and tow.—ns. Link′boy Link′man a boy or man who carries such to light travellers.
n. a ring of a chain: anything connecting: a single part of a series: the 1⁄100th part of the chain a measure used in surveying &c. (see Chain).—v.t. to connect as by a link: to join in confederacy.—v.i. to be connected.—n. Link′-mō′tion a system of pieces pivoted together describing definite curves in the same plane or in parallel planes.—Missing link any point or fact needed to complete a series or a chain of argument: (zool.) a conjectural form of animal life supposed necessary to complete the chain of evolution from some simian to the human animal: (coll.) an ape monkey or apish-looking man.
v.i. (Scot.) to go quickly.
Edited by Janet
Unserious Contents or Definition
Found in sausages and golf courses, and both full of hazards.
Editor: Will
Examples
- As he took a chair himself, he supplied the link that Mr. Lorry wanted, by saying to him with a frown, Witness at that trial. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- But we must attempt it if we are to link what has gone before in this history with the condition of our world to-day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Jo sweeps his crossing all day long, unconscious of the link, if any link there be. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- My protectors had departed, and had broken the only link that held me to the world. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- What link could there be between that creature and my wife? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- He is a curious, interesting, and nearly perished link between obsolete forms of life and those which generally prevail. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Where lay the link of junction, where the little clasp of this monastic necklace? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Such links of sentiment and association were of little avail against the intense separatism of the Greek political institutions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- It consisted of a large collection of bolts and screws which had been _cold-punched_, as well as of elevator and carrier chains, the links of which had been so punched. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Here are the missing links of the very simple chain: 1. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Out, therefore it came, and with it many necessary links in the story. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The bending of wire to form chains without welding the links has long been done for watch chains, etc. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Scattered and unconnected as they were, I have been obliged to add links, and model the work into a consistent form. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The first embossed metal plates were linked together in the form of an endless chain, similar to the rubber type plates. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They were all linked together by slender wires. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Yet, even then, I have checked thick-coming fears with one thought; I would not fear death, for the emotions that linked us must be immortal. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The Western Union Company followed the stage-coach across the plains to California, and soon the frontier towns were linked to the large cities of the East. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- So persons vainly reason when their minds are already made up and their fortunes irrevocably linked together. Plato. The Republic.
- These type holders were then ingeniously linked together in the form of an endless chain. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The name of the murdered man linked the one event with the other. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- But the last item was long, long, long, in linking itself to the rest. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Using this cover, they were linking the individual mounds up with stones and dirt. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But in the intermediate region, having intermediate conditions of life, why do we not now find closely-linking intermediate varieties? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It was not pleasant to find these very different persons and things linking themselves together in this way. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- He was only half conscious--a thin strand of consciousness linking the darkness of death with the light of day. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Down the valley ran the colliery railway, linking mine with mine. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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