Route vs Link - What's the difference?
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A course or way which is traveled or passed.
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, title= A regular itinerary of stops, or the path followed between these stops, such as for delivery or passenger transportation.
A road or path; often specifically a highway.
(rfc-sense) (figuratively) One of multiple methods or approaches to doing something.
* 2010 , Damien McLoughlin and David A. Aaker, Strategic Market Management: Global Perspectives , John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 978-0-470-68975-2,
To direct or divert along a particular course.
(Internet) to connect two local area networks, thereby forming an internet
To send (information) through a router
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A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
* Cowper
* Gascoigne
One element of a chain or other connected series.
(computing) The connection between buses or systems.
(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
(figurative) an individual person or element in a
* 2010 , James O. Young, My Sheep Know My Voice: anointed poetry , AuthorHouse,
* 2010 , William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, Jill Butler, Universal Principles of Design , RockPort,
* 2010 , Stephen Fairweather, The Missing Book of Genesis , AuthorHouse,
Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.
(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.
To connect two or more things.
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(of a Web page) To contain a hyperlink to another page.
(Internet) To supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.
(Internet) To post a hyperlink to.
To demonstrate a correlation between two things.
(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
As a verb route
is .As a proper noun link is
(rare).route
English
(wikipedia route)Etymology 1
From (etyl) route, rote (French: route) “road, way, path” (source:route on Etymonline)
Noun
(en noun)The Smallest Cell, passage=It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.}}
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- If such an option is to viable over time, it needs to be protected against competitors. Having patent protection is one route'.
Derived terms
* escape route * paper route * scenic routeVerb
- All incoming mail was routed through a single office.
Derived terms
* reroute * routerSee also
* (Internet) bridge * (Internet) LAN * (Internet) WANEtymology 2
Verb
(head)External links
* *Anagrams
* ----link
English
(link)Etymology 1
From (etyl) , from (etyl). Used in English since the 14th century.Noun
(en noun)- The mayor’s assistant serves as the link to the media.
- The link of brotherhood, by which / One common Maker bound me to the kind.
- And so by double links enchained themselves in lover's life.
- The third link of the silver chain needs to be resoldered.
- The weakest link .
- The link on the page points to the sports scores.
- A by-N-link is composed of N lanes.
- They used formerly to live in caves or huts dug into the side of a bank or "link ," and lined with heath or straw.
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- But know that God is the strongest link .
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- The fuse is the weakest link' in the system. As such, the fuse is also the most valuable ' link in the system.
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- . 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. ”
- a link of horsehair
- (Mortimer)
Holonyms
* chainDerived terms
*(connection) cufflink, hyperlink, linkage, link farm, missing link *(element of a chain) sausage link * link-up * chainlinkVerb
(en verb)- 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.
- My homepage links to my wife's.
- Haven't you seen his Web site? I'll link you to it.
- Stop linking those unfunny comics all the time!
Derived terms
* link upEtymology 2
Plausibly a modification of .Noun
(en noun)- "Give me a loan of the link , Dick."
- (Shakespeare)