link

1. 1

   A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.

   • The mayor’s assistant serves as the link to the media.
2. 2

   One element of a chain or other connected series.

   • The third link of the silver chain needs to be resoldered.
   • The weakest link.
3. 3

   Abbreviation of hyperlink.abbreviationalt-of

   • The link on the page points to the sports scores.
4. 4

   The connection between buses or systems.

   • A by-N-link is composed of N lanes.
5. 5

   A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.

6. 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. 7

   An individual person or element in a system.figuratively

   • But know that God is the strongest link.
   • The fuse is the weakest link in the system. As such, the fuse is also the most valuable link in the system.
8. 8

   Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.

   • a link of horsehair
9. 9

   A sausage that is not a patty.

10. 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.

syn. band · bond · link · nexus · tie · vinculum

ant. break · gap

1. 1

   To connect (two or more things).transitive

   • 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.
2. 2

   To contain a hyperlink to another page.Internetintransitive

   • My homepage links to my wife's.
3. 3

   To supply (someone) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.Internettransitive

   • Haven't you seen his website? I'll link you to it.
4. 4

   To post a hyperlink to.Internettransitive

   • Stop linking those unfunny comics all the time!
5. 5

   To demonstrate a correlation between (two things).transitive

6. 6

   To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable.

7. 7

   To meet with (someone).slangtransitive

   • 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
   • I might link my ting from Barkin'

syn. attach · join · put together

1. 1

   A torch, used to light dark streets.obsolete

   • Thou hast saved me a thousand marks in links and torches
   • You were coming out of the Italian Opera, ma’am, in white satin and jewels, a blaze of splendour, when I hadn’t a penny to buy a link to light you.’

syn. band · bond · link · nexus · tie · vinculum

ant. break · gap

1. 1

   To skip or trip along smartly; to go quickly.Scotlandintransitive

   • On a sudden he was aware of a man linking along at his side. He cried a fine night, and the man replied.