Bonding vs Linking - What's the difference?
bonding | linking |
The act by which something is bonded.
* 1998 , Walter Frederick Buckley, Society - a Complex Adaptive System: Essays in Social Theory
A method of aggregating multiple network interfaces on a computer into a single logical interface
Present participle of link.
:The yard manager is linking the sections of the train together.
Serving to connect other things together.
:Conjunctions frequently function as linking words in a sentence.
linkage
* 1986 , Douglas Pulleyblank, Tone in Lexical Phonology (page 11)
As verbs the difference between bonding and linking
is that bonding is while linking is present participle of link.As nouns the difference between bonding and linking
is that bonding is the act by which something is bonded while linking is linkage.As an adjective linking is
serving to connect other things together.bonding
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- A systems view of reality allows one to see that it is made of successive layers of bonded elements, each layer with properties emergent from the previous one: atoms are particular bondings of more elementary particles
linking
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)Noun
(en noun)- I will assume that multiple linkings of tones to a single tone-bearing unit come about only by language-specific rules.