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Licketh vs Linketh - What's the difference?

licketh | linketh |

As verbs the difference between licketh and linketh

is that licketh is archaic third-person singular of lick while linketh is third-person singular of link.

licketh

English

Verb

(head)
  • (lick)

    • lick

    English

    (licking)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.
    • The cat gave its fur a lick .
  • The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick.
    • Give me a lick of ice cream.
  • A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue, or of something which acts like a tongue.
    • a lick''' of paint; to put on colours with a '''lick of the brush
  • * Gray
    • a lick of court white wash
  • A place where animals lick minerals from the ground.
    • The birds gathered at the clay lick .
  • A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream.
    • We used to play in the lick .
  • (colloquial) A stroke or blow.
    • Hit that wedge a good lick with the sledgehammer.
  • (colloquial) A bit.
    • You don't have a lick of sense.
    I didn't do a lick of work today.
  • (music) A short motif.
    • There are some really good blues licks in this solo.
  • speed. In this sense it is always qualified by good', or ' fair or a similar adjective.
    • The bus was travelling at a good lick when it swerved and left the road.

    Synonyms

    * (bit) see also .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To stroke with the tongue.
    • The cat licked its fur.
  • (colloquial) To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight.
    • My dad can lick your dad.
  • (colloquial) To overcome.
    • I think I can lick this.
  • (vulgar, slang) To perform cunnilingus.
  • (colloquial) To do anything partially.
  • To lap
  • * 1895 , H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter XI
    • Now, in this decadent age the art of fire-making had been altogether forgotten on the earth. The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.
  • To lap; to take in with the tongue.
    • A cat licks milk.
    (Shakespeare)

    Derived terms

    * ass-licker * cow lick * good lick * lick one's chops * lick one's wounds * lick out * lickspittle * lick up * licked * lickety split * outlick

    linketh

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (archaic) (link)

    • link

    English

    (link)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) , from (etyl). Used in English since the 14th century.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
    • The mayor’s assistant serves as the link to the media.
  • * Cowper
    • The link of brotherhood, by which / One common Maker bound me to the kind.
  • * Gascoigne
    • And so by double links enchained themselves in lover's life.
  • One element of a chain or other connected series.
    • The third link of the silver chain needs to be resoldered.
    The weakest link .
    • The link on the page points to the sports scores.
  • (computing) The connection between buses or systems.
    • A by-N-link is composed of N lanes.
  • (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
    • They used formerly to live in caves or huts dug into the side of a bank or "link ," and lined with heath or straw.
  • (figurative) an individual person or element in a
  • * 2010 , James O. Young, My Sheep Know My Voice: anointed poetry , AuthorHouse, page 32:
    • But know that God is the strongest link .
  • * 2010 , William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, Jill Butler, Universal Principles of Design , RockPort, page 262:
    • The fuse is the weakest link' in the system. As such, the fuse is also the most valuable ' link in the system.
  • * 2010 , Stephen Fairweather, The Missing Book of Genesis , AuthorHouse, 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. ”
  • Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.
    • a link of horsehair
    (Mortimer)
  • (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.
    • Holonyms
    * chain
    Derived terms
    *(connection) cufflink, hyperlink, linkage, link farm, missing link *(element of a chain) sausage link * link-up * chainlink

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To connect two or more things.
  • * Eustace
    • 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.
  • (of a Web page) To contain a hyperlink to another page.
    • My homepage links to my wife's.
  • (Internet) To supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.
    • Haven't you seen his Web site? I'll link you to it.
  • (Internet) To post a hyperlink to.
    • Stop linking those unfunny comics all the time!
  • To demonstrate a correlation between two things.
    • Derived terms
    * link up

    Etymology 2

    Plausibly a modification of .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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
    • "Give me a loan of the link , Dick."
    (Shakespeare)
    Derived terms
    * linkboy * linkman

    Etymology 3

    Origin unknown.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Scotland) To skip or trip along smartly.

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