link
pronunciation
How to pronounce link in British English:
UK [lɪŋk]
How to pronounce link in American English:
US [lɪŋk]
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- Noun:
- the means of connection between things linked in series
- a fastener that serves to join or link
- the state of being connected
- a connecting shape
- a unit of length equal to 1/100 of a chain
- (computing) an instruction that connects one part of a program or an element on a list to another program or list
- a channel for communication between groups
- a two-way radio communication system (usually microwave); part of a more extensive telecommunication network
- an interconnecting circuit between two or more locations for the purpose of transmitting and receiving data
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- Verb:
- make a logical or causal connection
- connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces
- be or become joined or united or linked
- link with or as with a yoke
Word Origin
- link
- link: [14] Link goes back ultimately to prehistoric Germanic *khlangkjaz, whose underlying meaning element was ‘bending’ (it also has close relatives in English flank [12], flinch [16], and lank [OE]). ‘Bending’ implies ‘joints’ and ‘links’, and this is the meaning which is the word is presumed to have had when it passed into Old Norse as *hlenkr – from which English acquired link.There is, incidentally, no etymological connection with the now obsolete link ‘torch’ [16], which may have come via medieval Latin linchinus from Greek lúkhnos ‘lamp’, nor with the links on which golf is played, which goes back to Old English hlincas, the plural of hlinc ‘rising ground, ridge’.=> flank, flinch, lank
- link (n.)
- early 15c., "one of a series of rings or loops which form a chain; section of a cord," probably from Old Norse *hlenkr or a similar Scandinavian source (compare Old Norse hlekkr "link," Old Swedish lænker "chain, link," Norwegian lenke, Danish lænke), from Proto-Germanic *khlink- (cognates: German lenken "to bend, turn, lead," gelenk "articulation, joint, link," Old English hlencan (plural) "armor"), from PIE root *kleng- "to bend, turn." Missing link between man and apes dates to 1880.
- link (v.)
- "bind, fasten, to couple," late 14c., believed to be from link (n.), though it is attested earlier. Related: Linked; linking.
- link (n.2)
- "torch," 1520s, of uncertain origin, possibly from Medieval Latin linchinus, from lichinus "wick," from Greek lykhnos "portable light, lamp."
Example
- 1. There may be no direct link .
- 2. My favorite link is the folder and computer .
- 3. Grace how much link time have you logged ?
- 4. It keeps this critical link from sinking .
- 5. Medvedev has not been the only person in russia to link the ongoing heat wave to climate change .