Relationship vs Linkage - What's the difference?
relationship | linkage | Synonyms |
Connection or association; the condition of being related.
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, title= Kinship; being related by blood or marriage.
A romantic or sexual involvement.
A way in which two or more people behave and are involved with each other
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, title= (music) The level or degree of affinity between keys, chords and tones.
A mechanical device that connects things.
:A linkage in my car's transmission is broken so I can't shift out of first gear.
A connection or relation between things or ideas.
(genetics) The property of genes of being inherited together.
(linguistics) A set of definitely related languages for which no proto-language can be derived, typically a group of languages within a family that have formed a sprachbund.
Linkage is a synonym of relationship.
As nouns the difference between relationship and linkage
is that relationship is connection or association; the condition of being related while linkage is a mechanical device that connects things.relationship
English
Noun
(en noun)Cronies and capitols, passage=Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.}}
TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993), passage=“I Love Lisa” opens with one of my favorite underappreciated running jokes from The Simpsons : the passive-aggressive, quietly contentious relationship of radio jocks Bill and Marty, whose mindless happy talk regularly gives way to charged exchanges that betray the simmering resentment and disappointment perpetually lingering just under the surface of their relationship .}}
