[
US
/ˈɫɪŋk/
]
[ UK /lˈɪŋk/ ]
[ UK /lˈɪŋk/ ]
VERB
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be or become joined or united or linked
The travelers linked up again at the airport
Our paths joined
The two streets connect to become a highway -
link with or as with a yoke
yoke the oxen together -
make a logical or causal connection
colligate these facts
I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind
I cannot relate these events at all -
connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces
Link arms
Can you connect the two loudspeakers?
Tie the ropes together
NOUN
- a unit of length equal to 1/100 of a chain
- a connecting shape
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a fastener that serves to join or connect
the walls are held together with metal links placed in the wet mortar during construction - (computing) an instruction that connects one part of a program or an element on a list to another program or list
- an interconnecting circuit between two or more locations for the purpose of transmitting and receiving data
- a two-way radio communication system (usually microwave); part of a more extensive telecommunication network
- the means of connection between things linked in series
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the state of being connected
the connection between church and state is inescapable -
a channel for communication between groups
he provided a liaison with the guerrillas
How To Use link In A Sentence
- I have no great picture of her to link because I am out of town in San Francisco and all the pictures I have are the naked librarian Playboy centerfolds I got in email a few days back.
- It also has superb golf courses, so if you're a bit of a golf widow, leave him to tussle in the bunker while you slink off to the spa - it's connected to the hotel by a subterranean tunnel.
- Alcohol abuse can be inherited but researchers had found few genes directly linked to it. The Sun
- Trying to link things cross-departmentally is something that in my experience gets talked about a lot, but in reality rarely happens. The Audacity of Growth at Helpful Technology
- The magnificent 18 th-century mansion is set in private landscaped grounds at the edge of the town, opposite the golf links and West Sands but totally screened by trees, woods and 18-foot high lodge gates.
- He also worked part-time at a satellite uplink station.
- Seven years before US Surgeon General Luther Terry would announce a link between smoking and cancer, this information was political and business dynamite.
- Even I, a tolerant representative of the Middle Way, found myself blinking at this unquestionably Romish style of adornment. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
- The only constant linking it all is that it qualifies as, for lack of a better term, neat.
- the signifier is linked to the signified