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English

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɪŋk/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪŋk

Etymology 1

From Middle English linke, lenke, from a merger of Old English hlenċe, hlenċa (“ring; chainkink”) and Old Norse *hlenkr, hlekkr (“ring; chain”); both from Proto-Germanic *hlankiz (“ring; bond; fettle; fetter”). Used in English since the 14th century. Related to lank.

Noun

link (plural links)

  1. A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
    The mayor’s assistant serves as the link to the media.
    • (Can we date this quote by Cowper and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      The link of brotherhood, by which / One common Maker bound me to the kind.
    • (Can we date this quote by Gascoigne and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      And so by double links enchained themselves in lover's life.
  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. Abbreviation of hyperlink.
    The link on the page points to the sports scores.
  4. (computing) The connection between buses or systems.
    A by-N-link is composed of N lanes.
  5. (mathematics) A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
  6. (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.
  7. (figurative) an individual person or element in a system
    • 2010, James O. Young, My Sheep Know My Voice: anointed poetry, AuthorHouse, page 32:
      But know that God is the strongest link.
    • 2010, William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, Jill Butler, Universal Principles of Design, RockPort, page 262:
      The fuse is the weakest link in the system. As such, the fuse is also the most valuable link in the system.
    • 2010, Stephen Fairweather, The Missing Book of Genesis, AuthorHouse, page 219:
      “ […] This is so that nobody can change the way every link must talk about the formula that I taught to make a real Chain of Universal Love and not a Chain of Love of a group or sect.”
  8. Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.
    a link of horsehair
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Mortimer to this entry?)
  9. A sausage that is not a patty.
  10. (kinematics) 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. (engineering) 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. (surveying) 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. (chemistry) A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
  14. (in the plural) The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream.
    • 1822, Allan Cunningham, "The King of the Peak", in Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry, v. 1, p. 222.
      '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. […] '
Synonyms
Holonyms
  • (element of a connected series): chain
Hyponyms
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Translations
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Verb

link (third-person singular simple present links, present participle linking, simple past and past participle linked)

  1. (transitive) To connect two or more things.
    • (Can we date this quote by Eustace and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      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. (intransitive, of a Web page) To contain a hyperlink to another page.
    My homepage links to my wife's.
  3. (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.
  4. (transitive, Internet) To post a hyperlink to.
    Stop linking those unfunny comics all the time!
  5. (transitive) To demonstrate a correlation between two things.
  6. (software compilation) To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
to contain a hyperlink to another page

Etymology 2

Plausibly a modification of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "ML." is not valid. See WT:LOL. linchinus (“candle”), an alteration of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin lynchinus, itself from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek λύχνος (lúkhnos, “lamp”).

Noun

link (plural links)

  1. (obsolete) A torch, used to light dark streets.
    • 1854, Dickens, Hard Times, Chapter 7:
      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.’
    • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island:
      Give me a loan of the link, Dick.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
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Translations

Etymology 3

Origin unknown.

Verb

link (third-person singular simple present links, present participle linking, simple past and past participle linked)

  1. (Scotland, intransitive) To skip or trip along smartly; to go quickly. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Translations

References

  • Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Anagrams

Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

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  1. link, hyperlink

Danish

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Etymology

Borrowed from English link (since 1995).

Pronunciation

Noun

link n (singular definite linket, plural indefinite link or links)

  1. link (hyperlink)

Inflection

Declension of link
neuter
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative link linket link
links 		linkene
genitive links linkets links
links' 		linkenes

Synonyms

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Adjective

link (comparative linker, superlative linkst)

  1. dangerous
  2. (criminal slang) sly; cunning
  3. (slang) jolly, nice
Inflection
Declension of link
uninflected link
inflected linke
comparative linker
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial link linker het linkst
het linkste
indefinite m./f. sing. linke linkere linkste
n. sing. link linker linkste
plural linke linkere linkste
definite linke linkere linkste
partitive links linkers —
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English link, only since late 20th century.

Noun

link m (plural links, diminutive linkje n)

  1. physical connection, as in a hardware cable
  2. (figuratively) logical connection, as in reasoning about causality
  3. hyperlink
Synonyms
Derived terms

References

  • M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

German

Etymology

From Middle High German linc, from Old High German *link; compare Old High German linka (“the left hand”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

link (comparative linker, superlative am linksten)

  1. left
  2. sly; cunning
  3. dangerous

Declension

Template:de-decl-adj

Further reading

  • “link” in Duden online

Hungarian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English link.[1]

Noun

link (plural linkek)

  1. link, hyperlink
    Synonyms: hivatkozás, hiperhivatkozás
Declension
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative link linkek
accusative linket linkeket
dative linknek linkeknek
instrumental linkkel linkekkel
causal-final linkért linkekért
translative linkké linkekké
terminative linkig linkekig
essive-formal linkként linkekként
essive-modal — —
inessive linkben linkekben
superessive linken linkeken
adessive linknél linkeknél
illative linkbe linkekbe
sublative linkre linkekre
allative linkhez linkekhez
elative linkből linkekből
delative linkről linkekről
ablative linktől linkektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		linké linkeké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		linkéi linkekéi
Possessive forms of link
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. linkem linkjeim
2nd person sing. linked linkjeid
3rd person sing. linkje linkjei
1st person plural linkünk linkjeink
2nd person plural linketek linkjeitek
3rd person plural linkjük linkjeik

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Yiddish לינק (link), from German link (“left”).[1]

Adjective

link (comparative linkebb, superlative leglinkebb)

  1. (colloquial) flighty, fickle, fishy, shifty, sleazy, phoney (unreliable, irresponsible, often dishonest)
    Synonyms: könnyelmű, léha, komolytalan, megbízhatatlan, szélhámos
    link alak ― crook, loafer
    link duma ― baloney, eyewash, claptrap, flannel
Declension
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative link linkek
accusative linket linkeket
dative linknek linkeknek
instrumental linkkel linkekkel
causal-final linkért linkekért
translative linkké linkekké
terminative linkig linkekig
essive-formal linkként linkekként
essive-modal — —
inessive linkben linkekben
superessive linken linkeken
adessive linknél linkeknél
illative linkbe linkekbe
sublative linkre linkekre
allative linkhez linkekhez
elative linkből linkekből
delative linkről linkekről
ablative linktől linkektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		linké linkeké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		linkéi linkekéi

Derived terms

Further reading

  • link in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’An Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

References

Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia it

Etymology

Borrowed from English link.

Noun

link m (uncountable)

  1. (computing) link (hyperlink)
    Synonym: collegamento

Derived terms

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

Preposition

lĩnk

  1. toward (used with genitive case)

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German link.

Adjective

link

  1. left, left-hand

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English link.

Pronunciation

Noun

link m inan

  1. link, hyperlink

Declension

Declension of link
singular plural
nominative link linki
genitive linku linków
dative linkowi linkom
accusative link linki
instrumental linkiem linkami
locative linku linkach
vocative linku linki

Synonyms

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English link.

Noun

link m (plural s)

  1. (computing) link (text or a graphic that can be activated to open another document)

Synonyms

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English link.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlinɡ/ [ˈlĩŋɡ]

Noun

link m (plural links)

  1. (computing) link (text or a graphic that can be activated to open another document)
    Synonym: enlace
    • 2019 April 8, Astrid Morales, “Nueva estafa busca robar credenciales de usuarios de Netflix”, in Prensa Libre‎[1]:
      En el link puede observarse que no hace referencia a la compañía y que el servidor corresponde a un servicio de hosting gratuito de Emiratos Árabes.
      At the link you can see that it does not reference the company and that the server belongs to a free hosting service from the [United] Arab Emirates.
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