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Links vs Association - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between links and association

is that links is while association is the act of associating.

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

    * * English invariant nouns ----

    association

    English

    (wikipedia association)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of associating.
  • The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
    • , author=(Jan Sapp) , title=Race Finished , volume=100, issue=2, page=164 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations —culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?}}
  • (statistics) Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).
  • A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.

    • Derived terms

    * guilt by association

    Related terms

    * associate (pos v) * associational (pos a)