Conjugate vs Link - What's the difference?
conjugate | link |
(grammar) To inflect (a verb) for each person, in order, for one or more tenses.
(rare) To join together, unite; to juxtapose.
*2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 55:
*:The effects of hunger were often conjugated with epidemic disease.
(biology) To reproduce sexually as do some bacteria and algae, by exchanging or transferring DNA.
Any entity formed by joining two or more smaller entities together.
(mathematics) (of a complex number ) A complex conjugate.
(mathematics) More generally, any of a set of irrational or complex numbers that are zeros of the same polynomial with integral coefficients.
(mathematics) An explementary angle.
(grammar) A word agreeing in derivation with another word, and therefore generally resembling it in meaning.
* Archbishop Bramhall
United in pairs; yoked together; coupled.
(botany) In single pairs; coupled.
(chemistry) Containing two or more radicals supposed to act the part of a single one.
(grammar) Agreeing in derivation and radical signification; said of words.
(math) Presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; said of quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc.
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
In rare|lang=en terms the difference between conjugate and link
is that conjugate is (rare) to join together, unite; to juxtapose while link is (rare).As a verb conjugate
is (grammar|transitive) to inflect (a verb) for each person, in order, for one or more tenses.As a noun conjugate
is any entity formed by joining two or more smaller entities together.As an adjective conjugate
is united in pairs; yoked together; coupled.As a proper noun link is
(rare).conjugate
English
Verb
(conjugat)- In English, the verb 'to be' is conjugated as follows: 'I am', 'you are', 'he/she/it is', 'we are', 'you are', 'they are'.
Hypernyms
* inflectSee also
* declineNoun
(en noun)- We have learned, in logic, that conjugates are sometimes in name only, and not in deed.
Adjective
(-)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 .
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- The fuse is the weakest link' in the system. As such, the fuse is also the most valuable ' link in the system.
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- . 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)