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link | links |

As a proper noun link

is (rare).

As a noun links is

.

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

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    Anagrams

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    links

    English

    Etymology 1

    See link.

    Noun

    (head)
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (link)
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (links)
  • A golf course, especially one situated on dunes by the sea.
  • * 1894 , “The Golfer in Search of a Climate”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine , page 570
  • but what worthy golf links is not intolerably hard of access?
  • * 1919 , Harold H. Hilton, “Golf Courses at Home and Abroad”, in The Windsor Magazine , no. 296, p. 173.
  • The royal and ancient game of golf may now claim to be the universal game of the world, as in every part of the habitable globe links are to be found.
  • * 1920 , Walter Hines Page, The World’s Work , page 393
  • All over the country, links are scattered — club links, public links, and private links — and every year the number grows.
  • * 1967 , Litellus Russell Muirhead, Scotland , page 278
  • The links are the property of the town, the Courses being under the management of a joint committee representing the R. & A. Golf Club and the City.
  • * 2002 , Forrest L. Richardson, Routing the Golf Course: The Art & Science That Forms the Golf Journey , page 95
  • A true links is built on linksland […]
  • * 2003 , Lorne Rubenstein, A Season in Dornoch: Golf and Life in the Scottish Highlands , page 168
  • A links is best when it’s really firm and when the wind is really up.

    Anagrams

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