Link vs Incorporate - What's the difference?
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A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
* Cowper
* Gascoigne
One element of a chain or other connected series.
(computing) The connection between buses or systems.
(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
(figurative) an individual person or element in a
* 2010 , James O. Young, My Sheep Know My Voice: anointed poetry , AuthorHouse,
* 2010 , William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, Jill Butler, Universal Principles of Design , RockPort,
* 2010 , Stephen Fairweather, The Missing Book of Genesis , AuthorHouse,
Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(chemistry) A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
To connect two or more things.
* Eustace
(of a Web page) To contain a hyperlink to another page.
(Internet) To supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.
(Internet) To post a hyperlink to.
To demonstrate a correlation between two things.
(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
To include (something) as a part.
* Addison
To mix (something in) as an ingredient; to blend
To admit as a member of a company
To form into a legal company.
(US, legal) To include (another clause or guarantee of the US constitution) as a part (of the , such that the clause binds not only the federal government but also state governments).
To form into a body; to combine, as different ingredients, into one consistent mass.
* Shakespeare
To unite with a material body; to give a material form to; to embody.
* Bishop Stillingfleet
(obsolete) Corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied.
* Shakespeare
* Francis Bacon
Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual.
* Sir Walter Raleigh
Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation.
In transitive terms the difference between link and incorporate
is that link is to demonstrate a correlation between two things while incorporate is to form into a legal company.In obsolete terms the difference between link and incorporate
is that link is a torch, used to light dark streets while incorporate is corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied.As a noun link
is a connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.As a proper noun Link
is a diminutive=Lincoln given name.As an adjective incorporate is
corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied.link
English
(link)Etymology 1
From (etyl) , from (etyl). Used in English since the 14th century.Noun
(en noun)- The mayor’s assistant serves as the link to the media.
- The link of brotherhood, by which / One common Maker bound me to the kind.
- And so by double links enchained themselves in lover's life.
- The third link of the silver chain needs to be resoldered.
- The weakest link .
- The link on the page points to the sports scores.
- A by-N-link is composed of N lanes.
- They used formerly to live in caves or huts dug into the side of a bank or "link ," and lined with heath or straw.
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- But know that God is the strongest link .
page 262:
- The fuse is the weakest link' in the system. As such, the fuse is also the most valuable ' link in the system.
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. ”
- a link of horsehair
- (Mortimer)
Holonyms
* chainDerived terms
*(connection) cufflink, hyperlink, linkage, link farm, missing link *(element of a chain) sausage link * link-up * chainlinkVerb
(en verb)- 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.
- My homepage links to my wife's.
- Haven't you seen his Web site? I'll link you to it.
- Stop linking those unfunny comics all the time!
Derived terms
* link upEtymology 2
Plausibly a modification of .Noun
(en noun)- "Give me a loan of the link , Dick."
- (Shakespeare)
Derived terms
* linkboy * linkmanEtymology 3
Origin unknown.References
*Anagrams
* ----incorporate
English
Verb
(incorporat)- The design of his house incorporates a spiral staircase.
- to incorporate another's ideas into one's work
- The Romans did not subdue a country to put the inhabitants to fire and sword, but to incorporate them into their own community.
- Incorporate air into the mixture.
- The company was incorporated in 1980.
- By your leaves, you shall not stay alone, / Till holy church incorporate two in one.
- The idolaters, who worshipped their images as gods, supposed some spirit to be incorporated therein.
Derived terms
* incorporatedAdjective
(en adjective)- As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds / Had been incorporate .
- a fifteenth part of silver incorporate with gold
- Moses forbore to speak of angels, and things invisible, and incorporate .
- an incorporate banking association