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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Linker |
Industry | Machine for sewing together; edge to edge, parts of knitted garments. Source: European Union. (references) |
Occupations | Attaches links, trimmings, and findings to bracelets, necklaces, and pendant chains, using pointed pliers: Grips link with pliers, or positions link in slot of linking ring (screwhead soldered on ring). Twists link joint open with pliers. Slides finding, link, or trimming into open link and clinches link joint to close it. May refer to sketch to verify order of assembly. May cut chains or ribbons into specified lengths, using cutter. May attach glass beads to findings by threading end pin (piece of wire with head) through bead and opening in finding, and twisting or looping pin to hold bead in place. May hook metal links together and be designated Link Assembler (jewelry-silver.); or repair broken jewelry chains previously soldered, using handtools and gas torch, and be designated Chain Mender (jewelry-silver.). (references) |
| Twists and ties casings filled with sausage to form links of specified length: Ties one end of stuffed sausage casing with twine to prevent contents from spilling out. Presses casing between thumb and index finger at length specified. Twists casing at pressed section to form link. Twirls remaining length of stuffed casing to make additional links. Ties ends of stuffed casings to make longer string of links. Drapes sausages over rack for subsequent processing. Cuts casings to remove defective parts or to separate links, using cutting tool. May retie ends. May hold stomachs or casings during filling by SAUSAGE MAKER (meat products) and tie ends. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
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:
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:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Linker."
Crosswords: LINKER |
| Specialty definitions using "LINKER": Amiga E ♦ deadly embrace ♦ Harvest C ♦ ld, link loader ♦ Prolog/Mali, PureLink ♦ undefined external reference. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "LINKER" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (linker), German (left). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "LINKER" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.78% of the time. "LINKER" is used about 90 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) | 97.78% | 88 | 35,154 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.22% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 90 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "LINKER" 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 |
| Linker | Last name | 2,000 | 6,958 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "LINKER": hi-linker. | |
| 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 |
letter linker | 80 | the fast pc linker | 5 |
linker | 33 | game boy linker | 4 |
amy linker | 28 | linker loader | 4 |
letter linker super | 25 | fa linker | 4 |
flash linker | 21 | advance flash gba linker | 4 |
linker w | 20 | adult linker | 3 |
gba linker | 16 | 8051 linker | 3 |
flash advance linker | 16 | arm7 linker | 3 |
game letter linker | 11 | linker overlay segment | 3 |
heart linker | 10 | def linker overlay segment | 2 |
gba flash linker | 8 | error linker | 2 |
game boy advance flash linker | 7 | boy flash game linker | 2 |
gb pc linker | 6 | card gba linker memory | 2 |
pc linker | 6 | advance linker | 2 |
game boy pc linker | 6 | linker rod | 2 |
neo geo pocket linker | 5 | ||
linker rod | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "LINKER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | lænker (link editor, linkage editor), lænkeprogram (linkage editor), lænkeeditor (link editor, linkage editor), samleprogram (linkage editor), ketlemaskine (looper, looping machine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | linker. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | muntilo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | linkitysohjelma (link editor, linkage editor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | lieur (liner), séquence de liaison, remailleuse, éditeur de lien (linkage editor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Linkage Editor (linkage editor), Verbindungsprogramm (linkage editor), Programmverknüpfer (linkage editor), Kettelmaschine (looper, looping machine), Binder (binder, header, necktie, truss beam). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συνδετικός συντάκτης (link editor, linkage editor), μηχανή επιδιόρθωσης πλεκτών ειδών (looper, looping machine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | rimagliatrice (looper, looping machine), redattore dei legami (linkage editor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | リューマチ熱 (backpack, bullpen car, bullpen cart, lilas, lily skirt, Lyon, lyophilization, lyric, lyrical, lyricism, relation, relational, relax, relaxation, relay, relay race, release, relief, relief pitcher, relocation service, rewind, rewrite, rheumatic fever, rucksack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | リンカ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | inkerlay editor de ligação (linkage editor), apanhadora de malhas (looper, looping machine). (various references) компоновщик. (various references) remallosa (looper, looping machine), montador de enlaces (linkage editor), montador (assembler, fitter), editor de enlace (link editor, linkage editor). (various references) länkare (link editor, linkage editor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "LINKER": linkers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "LINKER": blinker, clinker, plinker. (additional references) | |
Words containing "LINKER": blinkered, blinkering, blinkers, clinkered, clinkering, clinkers, plinkers. (additional references) | |
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"LINKER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: flinker, Ilker, klinker, Lancker, likaer, likert, Linaker, Linberg, Lince, linder, linka, linke, Linkia, Linzer, lunker, Olinka, slenker. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "LINKER" (pronounced li"ngker) |
| 4 | -i" ng k er | drinker, pinker, sinker, thinker, tinker, winker. |
| 3 | -ng k er | anchor, banker, bunker, canker, clunker, conquer, danker, Dunker, freethinker, hanker, hunker, junker, plunker, rancor, ranker, reconquer, supertanker, tanker, yonker, younker. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: relink. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-k-l-n-r" | |
-1 letter: inker, inkle, liken, liker, liner, reink. | |
-2 letters: keir, kern, kier, kiln, kine, kirn, lien, lier, like, line, link, lire, rein, riel, rile, rink. | |
-3 letters: elk, ern, ilk, ink, ire, irk, ken, kin, kir, lei, lek, lie, lin, nil, rei, rin. | |
-4 letters: el, en, er, in, li, ne, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-k-l-n-r" | |
+1 letter: blinker, clinker, crinkle, erlking, kindler, kremlin, lankier, linkers, plinker, relinks, tinkler, urnlike, wrinkle. | |
+2 letters: barnlike, blinkers, clerking, clinkers, clunkier, crinkled, crinkles, erlkings, fernlike, hornlike, ironlike, kindlers, kindlier, kinglier, knurlier, kremlins, plinkers, rekindle, relinked, ringlike, runelike, slinkier, sprinkle, tinklers, tinklier, twinkler, wrinkled, wrinkles. | |
+3 letters: blinkered, clinkered, crinklier, drinkable, freckling, hyperlink, interlink, interlock, kerneling, kilderkin, knobblier, knucklier, knurliest, lackering, larkiness, rekindled, rekindles, relinking, relocking, relooking, sprinkled, sprinkler, sprinkles, thornlike, truckline, twinklers, unluckier, unwarlike, wrinklier. | |
| 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. | |
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