Link vs Bind - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between link and bind

is that link is to demonstrate a correlation between two things while bind is to put together in a cover, as of books.

In lang=en terms the difference between link and bind

is that link is a diminutive=Lincoln given name while bind is a strong grip or stranglehold on a position that is difficult for the opponent to break.

As a proper noun Link

is a diminutive=Lincoln given name.

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.

References

Anagrams

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bind

English

Verb

To tie; to confine by any ligature.

* (rfdate) (Shakespeare)

They that reap must sheaf and bind .

To cohere or stick together in a mass.

''Just to make the cheese more binding

* (rfdate) (Mortimer)

clay binds by heat.

To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.

I wish I knew why the sewing machine binds up after I use it for a while.

To exert a binding or restraining influence.

These are the ties that bind .

To tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.

to bind''' grain in bundles; to '''bind a prisoner.

To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind.

Gravity binds the planets to the sun.

Frost binds the earth.

* (rfdate) Job xxviii. 11.

He bindeth the floods from overflowing.

* (rfdate) Luke xiii. 16.

Whom Satan hath bound , lo, these eighteen years.

To couple.

(figuratively) To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other social tie.

to bind''' the conscience; to '''bind''' by kindness; '''bound''' by affection; commerce '''binds nations to each other.

* (rfdate) (Milton)

Who made our laws to bind us, not himself.

(legal) To put (a person) under definite legal obligations, especially, under the obligation of a bond or covenant.

(legal) To place under legal obligation to serve.

to bind''' an apprentice; '''bound out to service

To protect or strengthen by applying a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.

(archaic) To make fast (a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something.

to bind a belt about one

to bind a compress upon a wound.

(archaic) To cover, as with a bandage.

to bind up a wound.

(archaic) To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action.

certain drugs bind the bowels.

To put together in a cover, as of books.

The three novels were bound together.

(computing) To associate an identifier with a value; to associate a variable name, method name, etc. with the content of a storage location.

* 2008 , Bryan O'Sullivan, John Goerzen, Donald Bruce Stewart, Real World Haskell (page 33)

We bind the variable n to the value 2, and xs to "abcd".

* 2009 , Robert Pickering, Beginning F# (page 123)

You can bind an identifier to an object of a derived type, as you did earlier when you bound a string to an identifier of type obj

Synonyms

* fetter, make fast, tie, fasten, restrain * bandage, dress * restrain, restrict, obligate * * indenture

Derived terms

* bind over - to put under bonds to do something, as to appear at court, to keep the peace, etc. * bind to - to contract; as, to bind one's self to a wife. * bind up in - to cause to be wholly engrossed with; to absorb in.

Derived terms

* bindweed

Noun

(en noun)

That which binds or ties.

A troublesome situation; a problem; a predicament or quandary.

Any twining or climbing plant or stem, especially a hop vine; a bine.

(music) A ligature or tie for grouping notes.

(chess) A strong grip or stranglehold on a position that is difficult for the opponent to break.

the Maróczy Bind

Synonyms

* See also

References

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Anagrams

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