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Link

noun
1.
The means of connection between things linked in series.  Synonym: nexus.
2.
A fastener that serves to join or connect.  Synonyms: linkup, tie, tie-in.
3.
The state of being connected.  Synonyms: connectedness, connection.  Antonym: disconnectedness.
4.
A connecting shape.  Synonyms: connection, connexion.
5.
A unit of length equal to 1/100 of a chain.
6.
(computing) an instruction that connects one part of a program or an element on a list to another program or list.
7.
A channel for communication between groups.  Synonyms: contact, inter-group communication, liaison.
8.
A two-way radio communication system (usually microwave); part of a more extensive telecommunication network.  Synonym: radio link.
9.
An interconnecting circuit between two or more locations for the purpose of transmitting and receiving data.  Synonym: data link.
verb
(past & past part. linked; pres. part. linking)
1.
Make a logical or causal connection.  Synonyms: associate, colligate, connect, link up, relate, tie in.  "Colligate these facts" , "I cannot relate these events at all"  Antonym: dissociate.
2.
Connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces.  Synonyms: connect, link up, tie.  "Tie the ropes together" , "Link arms"  Antonym: disconnect.
3.
Be or become joined or united or linked.  Synonyms: connect, join, link up, unite.  "Our paths joined" , "The travelers linked up again at the airport"
4.
Link with or as with a yoke.  Synonym: yoke.



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"Link" Quotes from Famous Books



... the one to make the first difference," answered Mr. Rayne. "My house is large; I am a crusty old bachelor, with no other tie binding me to the world, except this new link that has just filled me with a desire to live anew from this out. All I have is at your disposal: you must make yourself perfectly at home with me. I don't know much about winning the confidence and hearts of ...
— Honor Edgeworth • Vera
... purposes of firm attachment. In brief, this animal was close to the point where reptiles and birds parted company in evolution, and although it was a primitive bird, it is in a true sense a "missing link" between reptiles and the group of modern birds. Other fossil forms like Hesperornis and Ichthyornis, whose remains occur in the strata of a later date, fill in the gap between Archaeopteryx and the birds ...
— The Doctrine of Evolution - Its Basis and Its Scope • Henry Edward Crampton
... history, which is to be written by better hands, the very sketchy outline in Part I. is given in order to form the connecting link between the Regiment in peace, since its formation, and the ...
— Short History of the London Rifle Brigade • Unknown
... passage quoted, takes a good deal of history for granted in saying that we have studied literature rather than nature because the Greeks, and the Romans whom they taught, did so. What is the link that spans the intervening centuries? The question suggests that barbarian Europe but repeated on a larger scale and with increased intensity the Roman situation. It had to go to school to Greco-Roman civilization; it also borrowed rather than evolved its culture. Not merely for its general ideas ...
— Democracy and Education • John Dewey
... of the religious experience, that felt communion with a Person which is the clou of the devotional life, we get as it were the link between the extreme apprehensions of transcendence and of immanence, and their expression in the lives of contemplation and of action; and also a focus for that religious-emotion which is the most powerful stimulus to spiritual growth. ...
— The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day • Evelyn Underhill


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