link
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From Old English linke probably from Old Norse *hlenkr, from Proto-Germanic. Used in English since the 14th century.
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link (plural links)
- A connection between places, persons, events, or things.
- The mayor’s assistant serves as the link to the media.
- One element of a chain or other connected series.
- The third link of the silver chain needs to be resoldered.
- The weakest link.
- Sausage link.
- Abbreviation of hyperlink.
- The link on the page points to the sports scores.
- (computing) The connection between buses or systems.
- A by-N-link is composed of N lanes.
- (mathematics) A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
- (Sussex) a thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.
- 2008, Richard John King, A Handbook for Travellers in Kent and Sussex
- They used formerly to live in caves or huts dug into the side of a bank or "link," and lined with heath or straw.
- 2008, Richard John King, A Handbook for Travellers in Kent and Sussex
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link (third-person singular simple present links, present participle linking, simple past and past participle linked)
- (transitive) To connect two or more things.
- (intransitive, of a Web page) To contain a hyperlink to another page.
- My homepage links to my wife's.
- (transitive, Internet) To supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.
- Haven't you seen his Web site? I'll link you to it.
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[edit] Etymology 2
Plausibly a modification of Medieval Latin linchinus (“candle”), an alteration of Latin lynchinus, itself from Ancient Greek λύχνος (lukhnos, “lamp”).
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link (plural links)
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Origin unknown.
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link (third-person singular simple present links, present participle linking, simple past and past participle linked)
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- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
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From English link (since 1995).
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- IPA: /lenɡk/, [leŋɡ̊]
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link n. (singular definite linket, plural indefinite link or links)
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- Rhymes: -ɪŋk
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link (comparative linker, superlative linkst)
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From English link, only since late 20th century.
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link m. (plural links, diminutive linkje)
- physical connection, as in a hardware cable
- (figuratively) logical connection, as in reasoning about causality
- hyperlink
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- (physical connection): verbinding
- (logical connection): verband
- (hyperlink): koppeling, verwijzing
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link
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- M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]
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- IPA: /liŋk/
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link
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From English link.
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link (plural linkek)
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From English link.
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link m. inv.
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- IPA: [liŋk]
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lĩnk
- toward (used with genitive case)
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- IPA: [lʲĩŋk]
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link m.
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