Link

Noun

 * 1) A connection between places, persons, events, or things.
 * The mayor’s assistant serves as the link to the media.
 * 1) One element of a chain.
 * The third link of the silver chain needs to be resoldered.
 * The weakest link.
 * 1)  The connection between busses or systems.
 * A by-N-link is composed of N lanes.
 * 1)  Shortened form of hyperlink, especially one implemented in HTML.
 * The link on the page points to the sports scores.
 * 1)  A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
 * 2)  a thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.
 * 3) * 2008, Richard John King, A Handbook for Travellers in Kent and Sussex
 * They used formerly to live in caves or huts dug into the side of a bank or "link," and lined with heath or straw.

Holonyms

 * chain

Derived terms

 * hyperlink
 * link-up
 * missing link

Verb

 * 1)  To connect two or more things.
 * 2)  To contain a hyperlink to another page.
 * My homepage links to my wife's.

Derived terms

 * link up

Noun

 * 1)  A torch, used to light dark streets.

Derived terms

 * linkboy
 * linkman

Verb

 * 1)  To skip or trip along smartly.

Verbs for Link
cement—; dissolve—; fuse—; partition into —s; pivot on—; rend—; sever—; solder—; sunder—; terminate—; —affiliates; —allies; —bridges; —cleaves; —coincides; —com¬municates; —correlates; —facilitates; —fet¬ters; —hinges; —leagues; —shackles; — spans; —unites; —leashes.

Adverbs for Link
indissolubly; inextricably; rhythmically; inevitably; inseparably; perpetually; incessantly; slanderously; humorously; incongruously; incompatibly.

Thesaurus
accord, accouple, accumulate, addition, adjunct, affairs, affiliation, affinity, agent, agglutinate, alliance, ally, amass, ankle, appendage, apply, approximation, arm, articulate, articulation, assemblage, assemble, associate, association, band, be continuous, bind, bond, bough, boundary, bracket, branch, bridge, bridge over, broker, bunch, bunch up, butt, catenate, cement, cervix, chain, clap together, clinch, closeness, closure, clot, cluster, collect, combination, combine, come together, component, comprise, concatenate, conglobulate, congregate, conjoin, conjugate, connect, connect up, connectedness, connecting link, connecting rod, connection, connector, constituent, contiguity, continuate, continue, contrariety, converge, copulate, correlate, couple, coupling, cover, cresset, crowd, date, dealings, deduction, disjunction, distributor, dovetail, draw a parallel, elbow, element, embrace, encompass, equate, filiation, flambeau, flaming torch, flare, flock together, flow together, forgather, form a series, fuse, fusee, gang around, gang up, gather, gather around, gliding joint, glue, go-between, hand, herd together, hinge, hinged joint, hip, hive, homology, horde, huddle, identify, identify with, imp, include, intercourse, interdependence, interface, intermediary, intermedium, interrelate, intimacy, jobber, join, joining, joint, junction, juncture, knee, knot, knuckle, lay together, league, leg, liaison, ligament, ligature, limb, link up, linkage, linking, lobe, lobule, lump together, maintain continuity, marry, marshal, mass, mediary, mediator, medium, meet, member, merge, middleman, mill, miter, mobilize, mortise, muster, mutual attraction, nearness, neck, nexus, offshoot, organ, pair, parallel, parallelize, piece together, pinion, pivot, pivot joint, propinquity, proximity, put together, rabbet, rally, rally around, ramification, rapport, relate, relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, relativize, rendezvous, roll into one, run on, runner, scarf, scion, seam, seethe, shoulder, signal flare, similarity, solder, span, splice, spray, sprig, spur, stick together, stitch, stream, string, string together, surge, suture, swarm, switch, sympathy, symphysis, tail, take in, tape, tendril, thread, throng, tie, tie rod, tie-in, tie-up, toggle, toggle joint, torch, twig, unify, union, unite, vinculum, wed, weld, wholesaler, wing, wrist, yoke

Etymology 1
From linke: probably from  *undefined:, from. Used in English since the 14th century.

Etymology 2
Plausibly a modification of linchinus:, an alteration of  lynchinus:, itself from  λύχνος:.

Etymology 3
Origin unknown.

Noun

 * Chinese:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: forbindelse
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hungarian:, kapcsolódás
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:


 * Italian:, ,
 * Javanese:
 * Korean: 연결
 * Macedonian: врска
 * Malay:
 * Persian: پیوند
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * West Frisian: ferbining, keppeling


 * Chinese:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian:
 * Latgalian: ,
 * Latvian: posms
 * Macedonian: алка
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * West Frisian: keppeling


 * Danish:, forbindelse
 * Dutch: ,
 * Ido:
 * Italian:


 * Macedonian: врска
 * Persian: پیوند,
 * Portuguese:


 * Arabic:, روابط
 * Catalan: enllaç
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: ligilo
 * Finnish:
 * French:, lien , hyperlien
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian: hivatkozás,
 * Ido: ,
 * Indonesian:


 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: リンク
 * Lower Sorbian:
 * Macedonian: врска, хиперврска
 * Ossetian:
 * Persian: پیوند
 * Polish:, hiperłącze
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, , линк
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Walloon: hårdêye, loyén



Verb

 * Danish: forbinde, kæde, sammenkæde
 * Dutch:, linken
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * Hungarian: összekapcsol
 * Indonesian: menghubungkan


 * Italian: collegare, connettere, linkare
 * Macedonian: врзува, поврзува,  сврзува
 * Persian: پیوستن
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:


 * Catalan: enllaçar
 * French: être lié (à), (sur),  un  (vers), être hyperlié (à)


 * Persian: پیوند

Noun

 * Dutch:, flambouw,


 * French: ,

Anagrams

 * kiln

Noun

 * 1)  (hyperlink)

Etymology
From link: (since 1995).

Synonyms

 * hyperlink

Adjective

 * 1)  sly; cunning
 * 2) dangerous
 * 3)  jolly, nice

Derived terms

 * linkerd

Etymology 2
From link:, only since late 20th century.

Noun

 * 1) Physical connection, as in a hardware cable.
 * 2)  Logical connection, as in reasoning about causality.
 * 3) A hyperlink.

Synonyms

 * verbinding
 * verband
 * koppeling, verwijzing

Derived terms

 * linken

Adjective

 * 1) left
 * 2) sly; cunning.
 * 3) dangerous.

Noun

 * , hyperlink

Etymology
From link:.

Noun

 * 1)  link

Etymology
From link:.

Synonyms

 * collegamento

Derived terms

 * linkare

Preposition

 * 1) toward (used with genitive case)

Noun

 * 1) link, hyperlink

Synonyms

 * hiperłącze