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Link is a related term of secure.


As a proper noun link

is (rare).

As an adjective secure is

free from attack or danger; protected.

As a verb secure is

to make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.

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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    English

    Alternative forms

    * secuer (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Free from attack or danger; protected.
  • Free from the danger of theft; safe.
  • Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret.
  • Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid.
  • * Dryden
    • But thou, secure of soul, unbent with woes.
  • Firm and not likely to fail; stable.
  • Free from the risk of financial loss; reliable.
  • Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; commonly used with of .
    • secure of a welcome
  • * Milton
    • Confidence then bore thee on, secure / Either to meet no danger, or to find / Matter of glorious trial.
  • Overconfident; incautious; careless.
    • (Macaulay)

    Antonyms

    * insecure

    Derived terms

    * securely

    Related terms

    * security

    Verb

    (secur)
  • To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
  • * Dryden
    • I spread a cloud before the victor's sight, / Sustained the vanquished, and secured his flight.
  • To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against'' or ''from'', or formerly with ''of .
    • to secure''' a creditor against loss; to '''secure a debt by a mortgage
  • * T. Dick
    • It secures its possessor of eternal happiness.
  • To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping.
    • to secure''' a prisoner; to '''secure a door, or the hatches of a ship
  • To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.
    • to secure an estate
  • * 2014 , Jamie Jackson, " Ángel di María says Manchester United were the ‘only club’ after Real", The Guardian , 26 August 2014:
    • With the Argentinian secured United will step up their attempt to sign a midfielder and, possibly, a defender in the closing days of the transfer window. Juventus’s Arturo Vidal, Milan’s Nigel de Jong and Ajax’s Daley Blind, who is also a left-sided defensive player, are potential targets.
    "[Captain] was able to secure some good photographs of the fortress." (Flight, 1911, p. 766)
  • * , chapter=3
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”  He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}

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