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Definition: Link |
LinkNoun1. The means of connection between things linked in series. 2. A fastener that serves to join or link; "the walls are held together with metal links placed in the wet mortar during construction". 3. The state of being connected; "the connection between church and state is inescapable". 4. A connecting shape. 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; "he provided a liaison with the guerrillas". 8. A two-way radio communication system (usually microwave); part of a more extensive telecommunication network. 9. An interconnecting circuit between two or more locations for the purpose of transmitting and receiving data. Verb1. Make a logical or causal connection; "I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind". 2. Connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces; "Can you connect the two loudspeakers?" "Tie the ropes together"; "Link arms". 3. Be or become joined or united or linked; "The two streets connect to become a highway"; "Our paths joined"; "The travelers linked up again at the airport". 4. Link with or as with a yoke; "yoke the oxen together". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "link" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Link 1. |
Electrical Engineering | A connection between adjacent stages of the same space-division switching network. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A circuit extending between the primary and secondary selector of a selection stage. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Finance | A unit of land measurement. One link equals 7.92 inches or 0.66 feet. There are 100 links of equal length in a surveyor's chain. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | One ring or loop of chain. Source: European Union. (references) |
Information | A symbol attached to two or more index terms in order to indicate that these index terms have some unspecified interrelation, and in order to prevent the association of these index terms with other index terms accidentally. Source: European Union. (references) |
Math | A reference, pointer, or access handle to another part of the data structure. Often, a memory address. (references) |
Post & Telecom | The portions of text, images, and icons which are coloured differently from the rest of the text and point to other locations on the Internet. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A hyperlink, or simply a link, is a reference in a hypertext document to another document or other resource. It is similar to a citation in literature. Combined with a data network and suitable access protocol, it can be used to fetch the resource referenced. This can then be saved, viewed, or displayed as part of the referencing document.
The most common type of hyperlink is the URL used in the World Wide Web. A web browser usually displays a hyperlink in some distinguishing way, e.g. in a different colour, font or style. A mouse pointer may also change into a hand motif to indicate a link. In most browsers, links are displayed in underlined blue text when not cached, but underlined purple text when cached. When the user activates the link (e.g. by clicking on it with the mouse) the browser will display the target of the link.
The Google search engine uses PageRank, a measure of link popularity to determine which page should be ranked first. The more pages that have a hyperlink pointing to a page, the higher rank that page gets. It is actually slightly more complicated than that, see PageRank for more information.
British Telecom sued Prodigy under U.S. Patent No. 4,873,662 claiming that Prodigy infringed its patent on web hyperlinks. However, after costly litigation, a court found for Prodigy, ruling that British Telecom's patent did not actually cover web hyperlinks. [1] Hyperlinks were first described in 1945 in the landmark paper As We May Think, as well in the widely-known project Xanadu starting in the 1960s.
Some websites claim that linking to them is not allowed without permission, see e.g. www.litmanlaw.com/content.aspx?page=243§ion=12 and www.stib.irisnet.be/msgN.htm (in Dutch). See also deep linking.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hyperlink."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A link is a connection, e.g.:Note 1: In all cases, the type of link, such as data link, downlink, duplex link, fiber optic link, line-of-sight link, point-to-point link, radio link and satellite link, should be identified.
- a physical connection such as a road, railroad, cable, pipeline
- a connection by radio waves, etc.
- In hypertext, a hyperlink, i.e. a provision for moving from one webpage to another, where the URL is specified only in making this provision, not in applying it; similarly for an other set of pages (not necessarily on Internet), such as articles in an electronic encyclopedia.
- the communications facilities between adjacent nodes of a network.
- a portion of a circuit connected in tandem with, i.e. , in series with, other portions.
- a radio path between two points, called a radio link.
- a conceptual circuit, i.e. , logical circuit, between two users of a network, that enables the users to communicate, even when different physical paths are used.
- In computer programming, link means to take separately compiled object code modules, at least one of which refers to an address in another, and substitute the actual addresses of routines in the other module for placeholders.
- (capitalized) a Nintendo video game character from the Legend of Zelda series. Link also appeared in Super Smash Bros, Super Smash Bros. Melee, and the Nintendo GameCube version of Soul Calibur II.
- In knot theory a link is several knots (possibly including the unknot) which may be linked together. These are the components of the link. If they are not linked, they are said to be unlinked, but they are still referred to as a link. Likewise a knot may be called a link, even though it has only one component.
Note 2: A link may be simplex, half-duplex, or duplex.
Reference
- Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188 and from the Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Link."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A linker is a program that takes one or more objects generated by compilers and assembles them into a single executable program.In IBM mainframe environments such as OS/360 this program is known as a linkage editor.
(On Unix variants the term loader is often used as a synonym for linker, blurring the distinction between the compile-time process, and the run-time process. Although these processes are somewhat similar, this article will still use linking for the former and loading for the latter.)
The objects are program modules containing machine code and information for the linker. This information comes mainly in the form of symbol definitions, which come in two varieties:
In a nutshell, the linker's job is to resolve references to undefined symbols by finding out which other object defines a symbol in question, and replacing placeholders with the symbol's address.
- Defined or exported symbols are functionss or variables that are present in the module represented by the object, and which should be available for use by other modules.
- Undefined or imported symbols are functions or variables that are called or referenced by this object, but not internally defined.
Linkers can take objects from a collection called a library. The advantage of such a collection over a single big object is that the final program does not include the whole library, only those objects from it that are needed (define relevant symbols). Libraries for diverse purposes exist, and one or more system libraries are usually linked in by default.
The linker also takes care of arranging the objects in a program's address space. This may involve relocating code that assumes a specific base address to another base. Since a compiler seldom knows where an object will reside, it often assumes a fixed base location (for example, zero). Relocating machine code may involve re-targeting of absolute jumps, loads and stores.
The executable output by the linker may need another relocation pass when it is finally loaded into memory (just before execution). On hardware offering virtual memory this is usually omitted, though -- every program is put into its own address space, so there is no conflict even if all programs load at the same base address.
Modern operating system environments allow dynamic linking, that is the postponing of the resolving of some undefined symbols until a program is run. That means that the executable still contains undefined symbols, plus a list of objects or libraries that will provide definitions for these. Loading the program will load these objects/libraries as well, and perform a final linking.
This approach offers two advantages:
See also:
- Often-used libraries (for example the standard system libraries) need to be stored in only one location, not duplicated in every single binary.
- If an error in a library function is corrected by replacing the library, all programs using it dynamically will immediately benefit from the correction. Programs that included this function by static linking would have to be re-linked first.
- Library
- Name decoration
- Relocation table
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Linker."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
LINK | English | The Necessary Link Between Low-Level and High-Level Synthesis | Computing, European Union |
| li | English | Link | Meteorology & Standards |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: LinkSynonyms: connectedness (n), connection (n), connexion (n), contact (n), data link (n), inter-group communication (n), liaison (n), linkup (n), nexus (n), radio link (n), tie (n), tie-in (n), associate (v), connect (v), join (v), link up (v), relate (v), tie in (v), unite (v), yoke (v). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: disjunction (n), disconnect (v), dissociate (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Completion | Noun: completion, accomplishment, achievement, fulfillment; performance, execution; despatch, dispatch; consummation, culmination; finish, conclusion; close; (end); terminus; (arrival); winding up; finale, denouement, catastrophe, issue, upshot, result; final touch, last touch, crowning touch, finishing touch, finishing stroke; last finish, coup de grace; crowning of the edifice; coping-stone, keystone; missing link; superstructure, ne plus ultra, work done, fait accompli. |
Connection | Noun: vinculum, link; connective, connection; junction; bond of union, copula, hyphen, intermedium; bracket; bridge, stepping-stone, isthmus. |
Contiguity | Juxtapose; contact; join (unite); link (vinculum). |
Correlation | Noun: reciprocalness; Adjective: reciprocity, reciprocation; mutuality, correlation, interdependence, interrelation, connection, link, association; interchange; exchange, barter. |
Crossing | Twine, entwine, weave, inweave, twist, wreathe; anastomose, inosculate, dovetail, splice, link; lace, tat. |
Incompleteness | Defect, deficit, defalcation, omission; caret; shortage; interval; break; (discontinuity); noncompletion; missing link. |
Junction | Commissure, seam, gore, gusset, suture,commissure, seam, gore, gusset, suture, stitch; link; miter mortise. |
Attach, fix, affix, saddle on, fasten, bind, secure, clinch, twist, make fast; Adjective: tie, pinion, string, strap, sew, lace, tat, tack, knit, button, buckle, hitch, lash, truss, bandage, braid, splice, swathe, gird, tether, moor, picket, harness, chain; fetter; (restrain); lock, latch, belay, brace, hook, grapple, leash, couple, accouple, link, yoke, bracket; marry; (wed); bridge over, span. | |
Length | Line, nail, inch, hand, palm, foot, cubit, yard, ell, fathom, rood, pole, furlong, mile, league; chain, link; arpent, handbreadth, jornada, kos, vara. |
Part | Debris, odds and ends, oddments, detritus; excerpta; member, limb, lobe, lobule, arm, wing, scion, branch, bough, joint, link, offshoot, ramification, twig, bush, spray, sprig; runner; leaf, leaflet; stump; component part; sarmentum. |
Relation | Link, tie, bond of union. |
Bring into relation with, bring to bear upon; connect, associate, draw a parallel; link. | |
Term | Noun: term, rank, station, stage, step; degree; scale, remove, grade, link, peg, round of the ladder, status, position, place, point, mark, pas, period, pitch; stand, standing; footing, range. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Link, where am I (The Matrix Reloaded; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski) I will not be the weak link! (The Prince of Egypt; writing credit: Ken Harsha; Carole Holliday) Come on, Link. Forget it (Nam's Angels; writing credit: Alan Caillou) It's time to vote off the Weakest Link. (The Weakest Link; writing credit: Douglas Langdale) A journey that I hope will open the doors of life to me and link my past with my future (Dark Shadows; writing credit: Seong-ho Park) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Link Men (1970) Link és Flink (1927) A Link Missing (1925) The Missing Link (1917) Weakest Link (2002) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Pictured are various slides of woodchucks. These animals carry a Hepatitis B-like virus in their blood and are being studied to understand the link of virus to liver cancer. Post-mortem examination indicates that about 25% of the woodchucks die of liver cancer and have the virus in their blood samples. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | (1) color slide shows two, cooked, link sausages. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). |
 | A bucket full of quahogs, Mercenaria mercenaria. Quahogs feed by filtering plankton from the water, pumping up to a gallon per hour or more, depending on temperature. This feeding activity helps to improve water quality and clarity in Narragansett Bay and is an important ecological link between the Bay's water column and its benthic, or bottom-dwelling community. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | John E. Fogarty International Center For Advanced Study In The Health Sciences : NIH's Link to Research Worldwide. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | The school nurse is the most efficient link between the school and the home. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Checking a radio range chart, while serving as a Link Trainer Instructor at Naval Air Station, St. Louis, Missouri, circa 1943. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Monitors a radio range chart, while serving as a Link Trainer Instructor at Naval Air Station, St. Louis, Missouri, 3 November 1943. She follows the Link trainer's "flight path", and, if the pilot becomes "lost", points out his error. Credit: NAVY. |  | Making link sausages with the aid of machines which stuff ten feet per second, Chicago, Ill. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Student demonstrators link arms while singing "We Shall Overcome" outside the U.S. Consulate in Toronto, Canada. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | To supplement bulletin boards, war production drive headquarters suggests that each plant have at least one information stand located near the plant's exit doors. This stand is used at the Link Aviation Devices plant in Binghamton, New York. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Overlooking the tracks" by Brendan Paxton Commentary: "This was shot from the cabuse thing- wow- look at the tracks! anyways- if u use it- give me a link to where it is thanks!." | "Flo at 2 years" by Taylor Dixson Commentary: "A photo of me as a kid. feel free to use, but send me a link first please..." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Kahlil Gibran | That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man. |
Stanislaw J. Lec | The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it. |
William James | A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Here was the iron link of mutual crime, which neither he nor she could break |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | She picked out the ring, the watch charm, the earrings, dug under the pile and found one gold cuff link. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I usually go to the village along its causeway, and am, as it were, related to society by this link. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Past research hints at a link between autism and genes. (references) | |
This is believed to be the first study to link caspase-6 to neuronal cell death. (references) | ||
Many compelling lines of evidence link blood cholesterol to coronary heart disease. (references) | ||
Business | This reduces link costs to up to 30 percent. (references) | |
Two other cables link the country with Bahrain and Djibouti. (references) | ||
Comcell and Telecel (both cellular operators) use VSAT to link to other cities. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | South Africa | The Western Cape Director of Public Prosecution has opposed the candidate attorney's application, due to the link between cannabis and violent crime in that province. (references) |
Greece | In contrast Greek Orthodox officials have an institutionalized link between the church hierarchy and the Ministry of Education and Religion to handle administrative matters. (references) | |
East Timor | A passenger ferry between Oecussi and the rest of East Timor was discontinued due to safety concerns, making the land route through Indonesia the only link to the rest of East Timor for Oecussi residents. (references) | |
Economic History | Jamaica | Highway 200 will eventually link Kingston and Montego Bay. (references) |
Bulgaria | The Sofia-Skopje rail link is expected to require $180 million. (references) | |
Saudi Arabia | A rail link carries passengers and freight between Dammam and Riyadh. (references) | |
Human Rights | Angola | It was unknown in most cases whether they were targeted because of their work; however, in at least one case, a citizen was killed because of his link with a foreign NGO. (references) |
Panama | A legal mechanism exists to hold the Government financially accountable in cases in which a detainee spends more than 1 year in jail but subsequently has all charges dismissed at a preliminary hearing because the act of which the detainee was accused is not ruled a crime, or because there is no evidence to link the suspect to the crime. (references) | |
Minorities | Greece | Ethnic Greeks tend to link religious affiliation very closely to ethnicity. (references) |
Political Economy | Bhutan | Strong trade and monetary ties link the economy closely to that of India. (references) |
Mali | Hereditary servitude relationships continued to link different ethnic groups. (references) | |
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC | The electricity sector is a weak link in the Dominican economy with long blackouts, especially in the hot summer months, a regular occurrence. (references) | |
Political Rights | Croatia | The Citizenship Law and electoral legislation grant citizenship, and thereby the right to vote, on purely ethnic grounds to ethnic Croats abroad with no genuine link to the country. (references) |
Trade | Finland | The port has a year-round railway-ferry link with Turku. (references) |
Armenia | USAID has helped to establish the electronic transfer and data exchange inter-bank system in Armenia and link it with SWIFT. (references) | |
Travel | Eq. Guinea | Equatorial Guinea and the United States have a direct telephone link via satellite. (references) |
Denmark | In July 2000, Copenhagen became connected to Sweden by a ten mile bridge/tunnel fixed link. (references) | |
Indonesia | Ferry services for people and vehicles link the major islands and many of the smaller islands. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Cape Verde | Large urban private employers link their minimum wages to those paid to civil servants. (references) |
Mauritania | Some persons continue to link themselves to former masters, because of the belief that their slave status had been ordained religiously, and due to fear of religious sanction if that bond is broken. (references) | |
Kuwait | However, the Government never has devoted sufficient attention to worker safety issues, which has resulted in poor training of inspectors, inadequate injury reports, and no link between insurance payments and accident reports. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Catherine Zeta-Jones | It's hard and Rob Marshall, his brilliance along with Bill Kander found the missing link that were put on screen. |
Rush Limbaugh | If Washington has anything to do with the economic slide, it's the Democrats doing it while they try to link Bush to the pain they cause. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | I would emphasize that that is why an important link between Russia and the United States is in our common interest, in arms control and in disarmament. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | This Southwest Asian region has served as a key strategic and commercial link between East and West over the centuries. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Our School to Work Initiative will for the first time link school to the world of work, providing at least one year of apprenticeship beyond high school. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Link" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 74.99% of the time. "Link" is used about 4,654 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 74.99% | 3,490 | 2,782 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 19.66% | 915 | 7,843 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 4.72% | 220 | 20,356 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.62% | 29 | 64,444 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4,654 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "link" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Link | Last name | 8,000 | 1,605 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Australia | Transurban City Link | Canada | Tri Link Resources Ltd. |
| Japan | Venture Link Co., Ltd. | United Kingdom | Inter Link Foods Public Ltd. Co. |
| USA | Active Link Communications, Inc. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "link": air link ♦ air pump link brasses ♦ asynchronous connectionless link ♦ back link ♦ chain link ♦ chain of link processes ♦ Coat link ♦ coherent link ♦ communications link encryption ♦ connecting link ♦ cuff link ♦ data link ♦ data Link Connection Identifier ♦ data link control ♦ data link escape ♦ data link layer ♦ data link level ♦ data Link Provider Interface ♦ dead link ♦ decisive link of chain ♦ dynamic link ♦ dynamic link library ♦ external link ♦ fiber Optic InterRepeater Link ♦ flat link ♦ goods sea transport link ♦ hard link ♦ high level data link control ♦ hypertext link ♦ inter repeater link ♦ intersatellite link ♦ interstage link ♦ interswitch link ♦ link access procedure ♦ link Access Procedure on the D channel ♦ link Access Protocol Balanced ♦ link Access Protocol for Modems ♦ link access protocol on the D channel ♦ link arms ♦ link belt ♦ link Control Protocol ♦ link encryption ♦ link farm ♦ link key ♦ link layer ♦ link loader ♦ link man ♦ link mechanism ♦ Link motion ♦ link network ♦ link on to ♦ link rod ♦ link rot ♦ link State Routing Protocol ♦ link together ♦ link trainer ♦ link up ♦ link up to the cable network ♦ link up with ♦ link vinculum ♦ logical link ♦ logical Link Control ♦ logical link control and adaption ♦ microwave link ♦ missing link ♦ netware Link State Protocol ♦ PATHE link ♦ radio link ♦ recessed link ♦ road passenger transport link ♦ satellite link ♦ sea passenger transport link ♦ sequence link ♦ shambolic link ♦ shear link assembly ♦ simple link ♦ simple link process definition ♦ slip link ♦ slotted link ♦ snap link ♦ soft link ♦ static link ♦ symbolic Link ♦ synchronous Data Link Control ♦ to link macros ♦ torque link ♦ transportation link ♦ video link ♦ weight of the link ♦ X.25 link layer. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "link": link-attached station, link-attached terminal, link-boy, link-dead, link-editing, link-leger, link-legering, link-line, link-man, link-person, link-persons, link-relative, Link-stakes, link-type, link-up, link-ups, link-verb, link-wire, link-worker. | |
Ending with "link": acet-link, chain-link, direct-link, index-link. | |
Containing "link": node-link-node. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
link | 2,268 | zelda a link to the past walk through | 354 |
d link | 2,145 | link page | 348 |
link exchange | 2,137 | the legend of zelda a link to the past | 313 |
ink link | 1,662 | pennsylvania career link | 271 |
greenguy link o rama | 1,072 | kansas job link | 259 |
link popularity | 951 | game link | 246 |
pa career link | 902 | cuban link | 234 |
cuff link | 856 | chain link fencing | 200 |
green guy link o rama | 848 | adelphia link power | 198 |
chain link fence | 843 | link zelda | 184 |
link o rama | 616 | metro and link | 183 |
link mail prodigy | 596 | free for all link page | 181 |
zelda a link to the past | 555 | link scholarships.kachinatech.com | 178 |
career link | 538 | philippine news link | 174 |
weakest link | 529 | earth link | 173 |
link o rama.com | 440 | missing link | 167 |
link me all over | 396 | zelda a link to the past cheat | 163 |
link site | 389 | greenguy link | 163 |
link to the past | 388 | data link solution | 163 |
lake link | 363 | air force link | 151 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "link"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | skakel (telephone). (various references) | |
Albanian | lidhje kimike, lidhje (affinity, alliance, bandage, bearing, binding, bond, bracer, bracing, catena, communication, confederate, confederation, conjunction, connection, connexion, contact, cord, coupling, dressing, federation, join, joining, joint, knot, league, ligament, ligature, link up, linkage, nexus, rapport, regard, relation, relevance, relevancy, respect, seam, signalling, tap, tie, tie up, truss, tying), lidhem (associate, attach, bind, cohere, communicate, connect, correlate, interconnexion, relate, tie), lidh (articulate, associate, bend, bind, buckle, bundle, colligate, concatenate, connect, couple, do up, dress, enfetter, fasten, glue, hitch, hook up, interconnect, join, joint, lace, ligate, moor, regard, relate, respect, solder, splice, string, switch on, tie, tie down, truss, unite), togëz (hook), pishtar (cresset, flambeau, lamplighter, torch), masë gjatësi, marrëdhënie (companionship, connection, connexion, intercourse, rapport, relation, relationship, term), hallkë (cog, hanger, member, ring, shackle, thole), bashkoj (add together, ally, amalgamate, band together, close up, combine, compound, conglomerate, conjoin, conjugate, connect, consolidate, couple, fuse, fuze, glue, hook up, inosculate, integrate, interlock, join, joint, knit, merge, piece, piece together, pool, solder, splice, unify, unite, weld). (various references) | |
Arabic | حَلْقة (part of a series), وصل (arrive, attain, befall, butt, check, come, conduct, connect, convey, hook up, joining, joint, ligature, make, mark, plumb, reach, receive, result, roll in, show up, steer, touch, voucher), حلقة في سلسلة, زاوج (mate, orchestrate, twin), علاقة (bond, connection, connexion, linkage, nexus, rapport, relation, relationship, relevance, respect, runner, shroud, tie), صلة (communication, connection, connexion, copula, linkage, rapport, reference, relation, relationship, tie, touch), الرابطة (cement), إتصال (contact, liaison, nexus, relation, touch), إرتبط (associate, connect, tie up), ربط (attach, attachment, bind, connect, couple, faster, hitch, interface, involve, join, knit, knitting, lash, lash down, ligature, moor, relate, rope, secure, set, slur, strap, swaddle, tether, tying, unite). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съединявам (aggregate, band, butt, clutch, compound, concatenate, conjoin, couple, impale, incorporate, inosculate, interlock, join, join up, knee, knit, marry, mate, piece, piece together, rejoin, splice, tag, tie, tie in, unite), съединение (coalescence, combination, compound, conjugation, conjunction, fault, hookup, interconnection, interconnexion, interlock, join, joining, joint, junction, linkage, meeting, union), скачвам (couple, fasten), свързвам (ally, articulate, associate, bandage, bond, brace, bracket, catenate, colligate, concatenate, conjoin, conjugate, construe, couple, gather, interconnect, join, knot, lash, marry, mate, pack, piece out, piece together, put through, run on, truss, weld), свръзка (batman, bracing, housing, intercommunication, liaison, ligament, linkage, orderly), факла (torch), шарнир (hinge, joint, knuckle, knuckle joint), копче за ръкавели (cufflink), връзка (alliance, association, bond, bunch, cement, channel, communication, concatenation, connection, connexion, contact, copula, cord, coupler, intercommunication, lace, leverage, liaison, ligament, ligature, nexus, noose, overlay, point, reference, regard, relation, relationship, relevance, relevancy, string, tie, touch), мярка за дължина (chain, furlong, nail, pole, rod), мотовилка (piston rod, pitman, rocker, rod), звено, брънка (shackle), предавателен лост (beam, connecting rod), двигателен лост. (various references) | |
Chinese | 連結 (connect, join), 链接 (links), 聯通 (connection, to link together), 鏈路 , 鏈結 , 相連 (connection, to join, to link). (various references) | |
Czech | vztah (bearing, cognation, intercourse, rapport, regard, relation, relationship), spojovací èlánek, spojit (bond, combine, conjoin, connect, join, joint, marry, merge, partner, piece together, scarf, unite), spojení (combination, communication, concatenation, conjunction, connection, connexion, contact, joint, junction, juncture, liaison, rapport, relation, union), souvislost (coherence, connection, context, continuity, linkage, relationship, thread), prostředník (go between, in between, intermediary, intermediator, mediator, middle finger, middleman, vehicle), připojit (add, affix, annex, append, attach, connect, hook up, plug in, subjoin), èlen (article, fellow, member), èlánek (article, cell, paper, point, segment, study). (various references) | |
Danish | linksymbol, link (hypertext link), lænke (fleet, interstage link, interswitch link), signallænke, relation (relation, relationship, telegraph relation), kaede (cable, chain, rope, string), kædeled, hypertekstlink (hypertext link), forbindelsesstang (articulated rod, cross rod, hinge rod, rod, steering connecting rod, steering tie bar, steering tie rod, steering track rod, tie rod), forbindelse (connection), En af de ringe som en kæde er sammensat af., blanktråd (interstage link, interswitch link), binding (adsorption), bæltekædeled (track link). (various references) | |
Dutch | zetten (abbreviate, assemble, extract, infuse, lay down, mount, place, put, put down, reduce, typeset), schalm (ground plate, interstage link, interswitch link, shoe, soil grouser, track plate, track shoe), schakel (trammel, trammel net), monteren (accommodate, adapt, adjust, assemble, attune, fit, fix, mount, place, put up, tune). (various references) | |
Esperanto | munti (assemble, mount), ĉenero. (various references) | |
Faeroese | seta saman (assemble, compose, create, mount, put together, write), ketuliður, búgva til (assemble, mount). (various references) | |
Farsi | پیوند (Confederacy, Consociation, Graft, Slur, Union, Zonule), میدان گلف , متصل کردن (Adjoin, Apply, Connect, Joggle, Join), قلاب (Buckle, Clasp, Crampon, Creel, Frog, Grapple, Hank, Hook, Pennant, Tach, Uncus), حلقه زنجیر, زنجیر (Bond, Catena, Curb, Hobble, Manacle, Sling, Tow), جفت کردن (Accompany, Assemble, Geminate, Graft, Husband, Truss, Twin, Yoke), دانه زنجیر, بهم پیوستن (Bind, Clobber, Concrete, Graft, Incorporate, Interlock, Knit, Knot, Pan, Seam), بند (Article, Bond, Clamp, Clause, Dam, Dike, Fascia, Fit, Hinge, Internode, Joggle, Joint, Levee, Ligament, Ligature, Line, Manacle, Noose, Paragraph, Provision, Proviso, Segment, Sling, Snare, Stanza, Tie, Trawl, Weir, Wristband). (various references) | |
Finnish | linkki (hypertext link), liittää yhteen (fasten together, join, unite), lenkki (fastening, loop), yhteys (association, communication, connection, contact, context, fellowship, relation, service, unity), yhdysside (bond, tie), siirtotie, rengas (ring, tire, tyre), nivel (articulation, joint, node), hypertekstilinkki (hypertext link), asteidenvälinen linkki (interstage link, interswitch link), asentaa (assemble, fit, install, mount). (various references) | |
French | lien (linkage), liaison (liaison, ligate, ligature). (various references) | |
Frisian | keat. (various references) | |
German | bindeglied, verbindung (academy, affiliation, alliance, association, catenation, chaining, combination, communication, compound, conjunction, connection, connexion, contact, coupling, fusion, incorporation, intercommunication, interconnection, interface, join, joint, junction, league, liaison, line, link up, linkup, marriage, relation, relationship, society, splice, tie, touch, union, wedding), verbinden (affiliate, ally, associate, bandage, bandaging, bind, bind up, chaine, combine, communicate, compound, concatenate, conjoin, connect, connecting, contact, couple, dress, interconnect, intertwine, join, join on, join up, joint, mate, merge, put through, report, splice, splicing, synthesize, tie, tie up, to affiliate, to agglutinate, to ally, to bandage, to chain, to combine, to compound, to concatenate, to conjoin, to contact, to couple, to interconnect, to splice, unite), glied (acolyte, joint, limb, member, member male, organ, part, penis, rank, section, segment, supporter, term), gelenk (ankle, hinge, joint, knuckle, wrist). (various references) | |
Greek | κρίκος (link between). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לקשר (connect, couple, slur, tie), לחבר (add, associate, bind, connect, join, piece, piece together, tie), להצמיד (attach, couple, join, tie in), לצמוד (couple, pair, tie in), לצמד (conjugate, couple, fasten, pair off, twin), קשר (bond, communication, connection, converse, knot, liaison, linkage, linking, loop, nexus, node, noose, relation, relationship, tie), זיקה (affinity, attachment, bond, linkage, linking, rapport, relation, spark, sympathy, tie), הקשרות (linking), הצמדה (joining, linkage, linking). (various references) | |
Hungarian | láncszem (chain link). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tautan, menggandengkan (couple, hook together), mengaitkan (buckle), kaitan (connection, crook, hook). (various references) | |
Irish | nasc. (various references) | |
Italian | maglia (Jersey, jumper, knitting, mesh, stitch, sweater, undershirt, vest), legame (band, binding, bond, communication, connection, connexion, liaison, manacle, string, tie). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 併設 (establishment). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | リンク (rink), でんそうろ (line, transmission line, transmission path, transmission route), つながり (connection, relationship), せつぞく (changing trains, connection, join, union), わ (circle, counter for birds, counter for bundles, counter for rabbits, harmony, hoop, loop, peace, ring, sum, wheel), へいせつ (establishment). (various references) | |
Korean | 연결 (Concatenation, Connecting, connection, Connexion, coupling, Linking, links). (various references) | |
Manx | slat chianglee (connecting rod, tie-rod), lhoob (bend, coil, convolution, curve, flexion, gulf, hank, hoop, rabbit snare, shackle, snare, staple clasp, stitch, twine, twine of snake, twirl), kiangley (anchoring, anchoring building, article, article to trade, attach, band, bandage, bandaging, belay, bend, bind, bind down, binding, bond, bow knot, bundle, compress, condition, condition terms, connect, constipate, constrain, dress, dressing, envoy, envoy of poem, fasten down, fastening, influence, involvement, juncture, lock, lock in, locking, make fast, nexus, obligation, pin, pinion, relationship, retain, retention, secure, shackle, stipulation, tether, tie, tie down, tie on, tie up, tying, vinculum), boandey (animal chain, band, binding, bond, connection). (various references) | |
Norwegian | lenke (fetter), ledd (joint), forbindelse (associate, connection, liaison), forbinde (join). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inklay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ligação (attachment, binding, bond, call, catenation, coherence, coherency, conduit, connexion, contact, coupling, cufflink, intercourse, joint, lead, liaison, nexus, slide, tie, touch, union), elo (bond, nexus), argola (circlet, cufflink, hoop, ring). (various references) | |
Romanian | legãturã (band, bandage, bearing, bind, binder, binding, bond, brace, bracer, bunch, bundle, communion, concern, conjunction, connection, contact, cord, harmony, headkerchief, hoist, junction, knot, lashing, league, liaison, ligament, link up, marriage, nexus, pack, pertinence, rapport, reference, relation, relationship, relevance, relevancy, respect, sheaf, tie, touch, truss, unity), laţ (gin, lath, loop, noose, sling, snare, springe, trap, wire), lanţ (bands, cable, catena, catenation, chain, concatenation, fetters, range, ridge, series, string, succession, train), lega cu un lanţ (chain), lua de, lega (associate, attach, band, bend, bequeath, bind, bind up, brace, charm, coagulate, conjoin, connect, cord, couple, encircle, express, fasten, fetter, hitch, insert, interlink, interlock, join, joint, knit, knot, mate, pack, relate, shackle, sheave, start, tackle, tether, tie, unite), înlãnţui (catenate, concatenate, enfetter, enlink, fascinate, gyve, interlink), buton de manşetã, cârlionţ (Lovelock, ringlet, tress), cârnãcior (sausage), corela (correlate), element (cell, element, elements, form, item, rudiments, unit), inel (circle, circlet, curl, ferrule, hoop, Lovelock, ring, ringlet), verigã (ring), se lega (bind, bind oneself, connect, interlink, knit, moor, pick at), uni (agree, amalgamate, bind, combine, conjoin, connect, couple, focus, join, knit, knot, mate, merge, put together, unite, Wed), zuluf (forelock, kink, kinkle), torţã (flambeau, torch), ochi (aim, cover, covet, eyes, Gemma, glade, glances, loop, mesh, optic, orb, peeper, pink, pip, ring, scan, sight, stitch, suspect, take aim at, take sight, train, vortex), scoabã (bracer, chisel, clamp, clasp, clench, clincher, clip, cramp, crampon, dog, Gib, gouge, staple, strap, yoke), se înlãnţui, za (mail). (various references) | |
Russian | соединять (amalgamate, associate, band, band together, clutch, coalesce, combine, compound, conjoin, connect, couple, incorporate, inosculate, interlock, join, joint, knit, merge, mix, piece together, reunite, span, splice, unite, yoke together), адрес возврата, звено (echelon, element, member), звено цепи, звеньевой, канал связи, компоновать (edit, put together), кулиса (connecting link, coulisse, wing), шатун (connecting rod, connecting-rod, piston rod, piston-rod, pitman), линия связи (circuit, communications links, facility, flowline), серьга (connecting-link, drop, eardrop, earphones rings, earring, ear-ring, pendant, shackle), ссылка (allusion, citation, deportation, exile, mention, re, reference), составной (built up, complex, component, composite, compound, constituent, constitutive, made, made up, multiple, sectional), связать (bind, connect, tie), связывать (associate, band, band together, bind, bond, brace, catenate, colligate, concatenate, connect, coupled, edit, interconnect, interconnexion, join, joint, knit, linked, relate, relating, tie, tie down, tied, truss), связывать связь (coupling), связующее звено (connecting link, connecting-link, intermedium), связь (affair, band, bandage, binding, brace, catena, cement, coherence, coherency, communication, communications, connection, connexion, context, coupling, intercommunication, intercourse, joint, junction, juncture, liaison, ligament, ligature, linkage, nexus, rapport, relation, relations, relationship, relationships, signalling, stay), указатель (bar cursor, cursor, directory, hand, index, indicator, pointer, signpost), указывать (denote, indicate, instruct, instructing, name, point out, respond with, specify), сцеплять (catenate, concatenate, couple, interlink, trip), шарнир (articulation, hinge, joint, knuckle, knuckle joint). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vezati (associate, attach, band, bind, confine, connect, couple, knot, lace, lash, moor, tie), veza (bond, bracing, bunch, clip, communication, connection, contact, copula, fastener, fastening, liaison, ligament, nexus, rapport, relation, stay, tie, touch, union), spona (bond, clamp, conjunction, copula, fastener, join, link-verb, nexus), spojiti u lanac, spojiti (aggregate, bring together, combine, connect, couple, fuse, hook up, join, joint, knit, lump, merge, pair, piece, piece together, pin together, ply, rabbet, slur, splice, tap), povezati (band together, bind, connect, coordinate, interconnect, tie up), karika (grummet, hoop, thimble), buktinja (torch, torchlight). (various references) | |
Spanish | eslabón (echelon, shackle, steel), vínculo (connecting link, linkage, list, tie), enlace (bond, connection, connexion, liaison, link up, linkage, list, marriage, meeting, relationship, starting point, tie up, union, wedding). (various references) | |
Swedish | länk (chain, tie), led (articulation, channel, evil, file, joint, knuckle, line, nasty, pass, term, tired, trail, way, weary), förbindelse (alliance, association, bond, communication, concern, connection, connexion, contact, engagement, intercourse, junction, liaison, rapport, recognizance, relation, service, undertaking). (various references) | |
Turkish | ulamak, meşale (cresset, flambeau, torch), kol düğmesi (cuff link), halka (annulus, bangle, circle, coil, collet, hoop, quoits, ring, round, torus, whorl, wreath), eklenmek (be added, supervene), eklemek (add, adjoin, affix, annex, append, attach, insert, interlard, interpolate, join, join together, joint, link up, piece, put in, put on, put to, run in, slap on, splice, subjoin, suffix, superimpose, supplement, tack, throw in, write in), eklem (arthrosis, articulation, joint, knuckle, linkage), birleşmek (affiliate, agree, ally, ally oneself, amalgamate, associate oneself, band together, be made one, coalesce, combine, confederate, congregate, conjoin, conjugate, converge, couple, fasten, federate, fuze, gang, incorporate, inosculate, join, knit, knit up, make one, meld, merge, reunite, unite, weld), bağlantı kurmak (corelate, establish a connection with, get hold of, link up, make contact, relate, tap), bağlantı (channel, commitment, communication, concern, connecting, connection, connexion, contact, contact man, coordination, coupling, dealings, header, hookup, intercourse, liaison, linkage, linkup, noose, relation, tap, tie, tie in, tie up), bağlamak (affiliate, assign, attach, attribute, band, bandage, belay, bend, bind, bond, brace, braid, clasp, colligate, concatenate, conjoin, connect, copulate, cord, couple, do up, engage, enthral, enthrall, fasten, fasten up, fix, fixate, grapple, guy, hitch, hook on, hook up, infix, interconnect, interlink, interlock, inthral, join, knit, knit together, knit up, knot, lace, lace up, lash, lash down, leash, ligature, link up, lock, lock up, mediatize, oblige, put through, rivet, rope, settle, string, subordinate, switch to, tether, tie, tie down, tie up, truss, unite, Wed), bağ (alliance, bandage, beginnings, binder, bond, brace, connection, connexion, copula, copulation, cord, corelate, daughter, desmo-, fascia, fastener, fastening, header, knot, lace, league, ligament, ligature, linkage, linkup, nexus, noose, relation, relationship, string, tie, tie up, truss, vinculum, vine, vineyard, yoke). (various references) | |
Turkmen | sosiska (r) (sausage link). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | стискувати (clench, clip, compact, compress, squeeze), кучер (coachman, curl, frizzle, kinkle, ringlet, swirl, tendril, whip), зчіплювати (concatenate, enchain), з'єднувати (adjoin, agglutinate, aggregate, amalgamate, articulate, associate, cement, commingle, compact, compound, concatenate, conflate, conjoin, connect, couple, cumulate, glue, inosculate, interlock, joint, knit, leash, merge, piece together, tag, thwack, tie in, twin, unite), зв'язок (association, bonding, bracer, catena, chain, coherence, communication, conjunction, connection, connexion, contact, join, liaison, ligament, ligature, nexus, pertinence, pertinency, rapport, relationship, thread, tie), ланка. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vật để nối, vòng xích, mắt xích, mắt áo sợi dệt, mắt áo sợi đan mối liên lạc, chỗ nối (join, joint, junction), cây đuốc, đuốc. (various references) | |
Welsh | dolen (bot, handle, loop, ring). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | absaniae, anani, anania, ananiae, ananiaeque, ananiam, ananias, aneni, anes, ani, anos, anus, concatenatis, conseres, conseretur, conservi. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "link": linkable, linkage, linkages, linkboy, linkboys, linked, linker, linkers, linking, linkman, linkmen, links, linksman, linksmen, linkup, linkups, linkwork, linkworks, linky. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "link": blink, bobolink, clink, cufflink, downlink, hyperlink, iceblink, interlink, plink, relink, slink, unlink, uplink. (additional references) | |
Words containing "link": blinkard, blinkards, blinked, blinker, blinkered, blinkering, blinkers, blinking, blinks, bobolinks, clinked, clinker, clinkered, clinkering, clinkers, clinking, clinks, cufflinks, downlinks, flinkite, flinkites, hyperlinked, hyperlinking, hyperlinks, iceblinks, interlinked, interlinking, interlinks, plinked, plinker, plinkers, plinking, plinks, relinked, relinking, relinks, slinked, slinkier, slinkiest, slinkily, slinkiness, slinkinesses, slinking, slinks, slinky, unblinking, unblinkingly, unlinked, unlinking, unlinks, uplinks. (additional references) | |
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"Link" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alinak, glink, Klinck, klinik, lan, lanc, lanj, lanka, lenk, Lesnik, libn, lihn, liin, lijk, lijn, lik, likn, likx, lina, linc, lincki, Linco, lini, linka, linke, Linkia, linky, linx, liny, lirk, lisk, Livno, lni, lnk, lonc, Lonik, lonk, Lonka, ltin, lunc, Lunik, Lunk, lyk, lynk, lynsk, nilk, Oleinik, Oleynik, Olinka, vink. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "link" (pronounced li"ngk) |
| 4 | l i" ng k | blink, clink, interlink, plink. |
| 3 | -i" ng k | brink, chink, cinque, dink, drink, fink, ink, mink, minke, pink, rethink, rink, shrink, sink, stink, swink, sync, think, wink, zinc. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: kiln. | |
| Words within the letters "i-k-l-n" | |
-1 letter: ilk, ink, kin, lin, nil. | |
-2 letters: in, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-k-l-n" | |
+1 letter: blink, clink, inkle, kilns, liken, links, linky, plink, slink. | |
+2 letters: alkine, blinks, calkin, clinks, dinkly, inkles, kalian, kaolin, kelvin, kilned, kindle, kindly, kingly, laking, likens, liking, linked, linker, linkup, malkin, nickel, nickle, pinkly, plinks, relink, silken, slinks, slinky, tinkle, tinkly, unlike, unlink, uplink, welkin, winkle. | |
+3 letters: alkalin, alkines, ankling, antlike, balking, bilking, blinked, blinker, bulking, calking, calkins, clinked, clinker, crinkle, crinkly, erlking, fanlike, finlike, flaking, fluking, henlike, holking, hulking, inkblot, inkless, inklike, inkling, inkwell, kalians, kaoline, kaolins, keeling, kegling, kelping, kelvins, killing, kilning, kiloton, kilting, kindled, kindler, kindles, kinfolk, kinglet, kinkily, kitling, kremlin, lacking, ladykin, lakings, lambkin, lankier, lankily, larking, leaking, lentisk, licking, likened, likings, limpkin, linkage, linkboy, linkers, linking, linkman, linkmen, linkups, locking, looking, lucking, lurking, malkins, manlike, milking, milkman, milkmen, netlike, niblick, niblike, nickels, nickled, nickles, nunlike, nutlike, oilskin, plinked, plinker, relinks, silking, skinful, skyline, slaking, slinked, snakily, sonlike, sulking, sunlike, talking, tinkled, tinkler, tinkles, tinlike, twinkle, twinkly, unalike, unlinks, uplinks, urnlike, walking, welkins, winkled, winkles, wrinkle, wrinkly. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Spoken | 13. Quotations: Speeches 14. Usage Frequency 15. Names: Frequency 16. Names: Company Usage | 17. Expressions 18. Expressions: Internet 19. Translations: Modern 20. Translations: Ancient | 21. Abbreviations 22. Acronyms 23. Derivations 24. Rhymes | 25. Anagrams 26. Bibliography |
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