Linking vs Clinking - What's the difference?
linking | clinking |
Present participle of link.
:The yard manager is linking the sections of the train together.
Serving to connect other things together.
:Conjunctions frequently function as linking words in a sentence.
linkage
* 1986 , Douglas Pulleyblank, Tone in Lexical Phonology (page 11)
As verbs the difference between linking and clinking
is that linking is present participle of link while clinking is .As nouns the difference between linking and clinking
is that linking is linkage while clinking is a noise that clinks.As an adjective linking
is serving to connect other things together.linking
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Verb
(head)Adjective
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(en noun)- I will assume that multiple linkings of tones to a single tone-bearing unit come about only by language-specific rules.