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Link   /lɪŋk/   Listen
noun
Link  n.  A torch made of tow and pitch, or the like.


Link  n.  
1.
A single ring or division of a chain.
2.
Hence: Anything, whether material or not, which binds together, or connects, separate things; a part of a connected series; a tie; a bond. "Links of iron." "The link of brotherhood, by which One common Maker bound me to the kind." "And so by double links enchained themselves in lover's life."
3.
Anything doubled and closed like a link; as, a link of horsehair.
4.
(Kinematics) Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.
5.
(Mach.) Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (Steam Engine), 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.
6.
(Surveying) 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. Cf. Chain, n., 4.
7.
(Chem.) A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
8.
pl. Sausages; because linked together. (Colloq.)


Link  n.  
1.
A hill or ridge, as a sand hill, or a wooded or turfy bank between cultivated fields, etc. (Scot. & Prov. Eng.)
2.
A winding of a river; also, the ground along such a winding; a meander; usually in pl. (Scot.) "The windings or "links" of the Forth above and below Stirling are extremely tortuous."
3.
pl. Sand hills with the surrounding level or undulating land, such as occur along the seashore, a river bank, etc. (Scot.) "Golf may be played on any park or common, but its original home is the "links" or common land which is found by the seashore, where the short close tuft, the sandy subsoil, and the many natural obstacles in the shape of bents, whins, sand holes, and banks, supply the conditions which are essential to the proper pursuit of the game."
4.
pl. Hence, any such piece of ground where golf is played; a golf course.


verb
Link  v. t.  (past & past part. linked; pres. part. linking)  To connect or unite with a link or as with a link; to join; to attach; to unite; to couple. "All the tribes and nations that composed it (the Roman Empire) were linked together, not only by the same laws and the same government, but by all the facilities of commodious intercourse, and of frequent communication."


Link  v. i.  To be connected. "No one generation could link with the other."





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"Link" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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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