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Link

noun

1.

The means of connection between things linked in series. Synonym: nexus.

2.

A fastener that serves to join or connect. Synonyms: linkup, tie, tie-in.

3.

The state of being connected. Synonyms: connectedness, connection.

4.

A connecting shape. Synonyms: connection, connexion.

5.

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

6.

(computing) an instruction that connects one part of a program or an element on a list to another program or list.

7.

A channel for communication between groups. Synonyms: contact, inter-group communication, liaison.

8.

A two-way radio communication system (usually microwave); part of a more extensive telecommunication network. Synonym: radio link.

9.

An interconnecting circuit between two or more locations for the purpose of transmitting and receiving data. Synonym: data link.

verb

(past & past part. linked; pres. part. linking)

1.

Make a logical or causal connection. Synonyms: associate, colligate, connect, link up, relate, tie in. "Colligate these facts" , "I cannot relate these events at all"

2.

Connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces. Synonyms: connect, link up, tie. "Tie the ropes together" , "Link arms"

3.

Be or become joined or united or linked. Synonyms: connect, join, link up, unite. "Our paths joined" , "The travelers linked up again at the airport"

4.

Link with or as with a yoke. Synonym: yoke.

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... the southern Chukchi Sea (northern access to the Pacific Ocean via the Bering Strait); strategic location between North America and Russia; shortest marine link between the extremes of eastern and western Russia; floating research stations operated by the US and Russia; maximum snow cover in March or April about 20 to 50 centimeters over the frozen ocean; snow cover lasts ...

— The 2003 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... Mrs. Coggeshall, who had been the inspiration and leader of the State suffrage work since its beginning and part of the time an officer of the National Suffrage Association, passed away. She was the link between those who began the movement and those who finished it. Whatever the later workers in Iowa had done had been as a candle flame lighted from the torch of her faith and devotion. She was a friend of Susan B. Anthony, of Lucy Stone and of many of the other veterans. Her delightful ...

— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI • Various

... like whirlwinds go, 1030 Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring; The stubborn spear-men still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, 1035 The instant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight; Link'd in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well; 1040 Till utter darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded King. Then skilful Surrey's sage commands Led back from ...

— Marmion • Sir Walter Scott

... from the rock-pigeon in the proportions of their beaks. So again in Java, the Fantail sometimes has only fourteen caudal feathers, and the tail is much less elevated and expanded than in our improved birds; so that the Java bird forms a link between a first-rate ...

— The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication - Volume I • Charles Darwin

... but only its relations to other facts in the way of succession or of similitude. These relations are constant; that is, always the same in the same circumstances. The constant resemblances which link phaenomena together, and the constant sequences which unite them as antecedent and consequent, are termed their laws. The laws of phaenomena are all we know respecting them. Their essential nature, ...

— Auguste Comte and Positivism • John-Stuart Mill

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