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Unfasten vs Unlink - What's the difference?

unfasten | unlink |

As verbs the difference between unfasten and unlink

is that unfasten is to loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie; figuratively, to detach from any connecting link or agency; to disconnect while unlink is to decouple an item; to remove a link; to delink.

As a noun unlink is

(math|knot theory) a link that is equivalent (under ambient isotopy) to finitely many disjoint circles in the plane.

unfasten

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie; figuratively, to detach from any connecting link or agency; to disconnect.
  • To come untied or unloosed.

    • Quotations

    * , iv. 1. 209. *: He doth unfasten so and shake a friend.

    Synonyms

    * undo * unbutton * untie * unzip

    Antonyms

    * do up * button * button up * tie up * zip * zip up

    References

    * English ergative verbs

    unlink

    English

    (wikipedia unlink)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To decouple an item; to remove a link; to delink.
  • (transitive, computing, Unix) To delete a file.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (math, knot theory) A link that is equivalent (under ambient isotopy) to finitely many disjoint circles in the plane.