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Clinker vs Linker - What's the difference?

clinker | linker |

As nouns the difference between clinker and linker

is that clinker is a very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands while linker is that which links.

As a verb linker is

to ligate a DNA segment using a linker.

clinker

English

Alternative forms

* klinker

Etymology 1

From (etyl) klinkaerd, later (klinker), from .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands.
  • A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat.
  • Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling.
  • An intermediate product in the manufacture of Portland cement, obtained by sintering]] limestone and alumino-silicate materials such as clay into [[nodule, nodules in a cement kiln.
  • Hardened volcanic lava.
  • * 2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 10:
    • Nobody could pretend that a huge slope of clinker is aesthetically pleasing.
  • A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging.
    • Derived terms
    * clinker block

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone or something that clinks.
  • (in the plural) Fetters.
    • Derived terms
    * clinkerwise

    Etymology 3

    From

    Noun

    (-) (nautical) A style of boatbuilding using overlapping planks; used chiefly attributively in terms such as clinker planking, clinker dinghy etc.
    Synonyms
    * lapstrake
    Derived terms
    * clinker-built

    Anagrams

    *

    linker

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia linker) (en noun)
  • That which links.
  • (computer science) a computer program that takes one or more objects generated by compilers and assembles them into a single executable program.
  • (genetics) A short oligonucleotide containing a recognition sequence for a restriction enzyme, used to blunt the ends of sticky DNA segments.
  • (grammar) A word that serves to link other elements.
  • (finance, informal) A linked bond, one for which the principal is indexed to inflation.

    • Synonyms

    * link editor

    Derived terms

    * linker DNA

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (genetics) To ligate a DNA segment using a .
  • * 1994 , Ray Shillito et al., "Zea mays plants regenerated from protoplasts or protoplast-derived cells", US Patent 5770450, page 52:
    • 38. The plasmid pRK252 Km is cut with ecoRI, blunt-ended using Klenow, and linkered with BgIII linkers (New England Biolabs).
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