Meaning

15 senses
  1. A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.

    The mayor’s assistant serves as the link to the media.

    the means of connection between things linked in series

  2. One element of a chain or other connected series.

    The third link of the silver chain needs to be resoldered.

    The weakest link.

    Verknüpfung, Glied

    звено́zvenó

    ла́нкаlánka

    the state of being connected

  3. The connection between buses or systems.

    A by-N-link is composed of N lanes.

    Verknüpfung

    связьsvjazʹ

    з'є́днанняzʺjédnannja

  4. A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.

    Verschlingung, Verkettung, Verbindung

    связьsvjazʹ, соедине́ниеsojedinénije

    зв'язо́кzvʺjazók, з'є́днанняzʺjédnannja

  5. A thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.

    Wildnisstreifen

  6. (figuratively)An individual person or element in a system.

    Glied

  7. Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.

  8. A sausage that is not a patty.

  9. 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.

    Koppel, Getriebeglied, Koppelstange

  10. 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.

    шарни́рšarnír

  11. 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.

    Kettenglied (0.201168 m)

    a unit of length equal to 1/100 of a chain

  12. A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.

    Bindigkeit

    связьsvjazʹ

Examples

359 sentences
  1. I'll send you the link.

    Я надійшлю тобі посилання. — deniko

    ruЯ пришлю тебе ссылку. — Olya

    deIch schicke Ihnen den Link. — mayabe

  2. Thank you for the link.

    Дякую за посилання. — deniko

    ruСпасибо за ссылку. — marafon

  3. A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.

    Ланцюг не міцніший від найслабшої ланки. — deniko

    ruЦепь не крепче своего самого слабого звена. — odexed

    deEine Kette ist nicht stabiler als ihr schwächstes Glied. — Esperantostern

  4. Would you like to exchange links?

    ruХотите, обменяемся ссылками? — Ooneykcall

    deMöchten Sie Links austauschen? — Tamy

  5. I'll send you the link now.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 4
computing: short for hyperlink — see also hyperlink:
element of a chain:
computing: connection between buses or systems:
connection:
Русский
By meaning 5
computing: short for hyperlink — see also hyperlink:
element of a chain:
computing: connection between buses or systems:
connection:
engineering: intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion:
Deutsch
By meaning 10
computing: short for hyperlink — see also hyperlink:
element of a chain:
mathematics: space comprising one or more disjoint knots:
connection:
thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches:
kinematics: elementary piece of a mechanism by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained:
surveying: length of one joint of Gunter's chain:
chemistry: bond of affinity:
windings of a river; the land along a winding stream:
torch:

Origin

From Middle English linke, lenke, from a merger of Old English hlenċe, hlenċa (“ring; chai

From Middle English linke, lenke, from a merger of Old English hlenċe, hlenċa (“ring; chainlink”) and Old Norse *hlenkr, hlekkr (“ring; chain”); both from Proto-Germanic *hlankiz (“ring; bond; fettle; fetter”), from Proto-Germanic *hlankaz (“bendsome, flexible”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleng-, *klenk- (“to bend; twist; wind”). Used in English since the 14th century. Related to lank.

Plausibly a modification of Medieval Latin linchinus (“candle”), an alteration of Latin lynchinus, itself from Ancient Greek λύχνος (lúkhnos, “lamp”).

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Forms

plural: links
Singularlink
Plurallinks

regular

Synonyms

16 synonyms
connection between things:connectionB1
Close in meaning

Antonyms

2 antonyms

Word family

105 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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