link
English
/lɪŋk/
noun
Definitions
- A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
- One element of a chain or other connected series.
- (computing) The connection between buses or systems.
- (mathematics) A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
- (Sussex) a thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.
- (figurative) an individual person or element in a system
- Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.
- A sausage that is not a patty.
- (kinematics) 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.
- (engineering) 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.
- (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.
- (chemistry) A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
- (plural) The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English linke inherited from Old English hlenċe derived from Old Norse *hlenkr inherited from Proto-Germanic *hlankiz (bond, fettle, ring, fetter).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*hlankiz
Gloss
bond, fettle, ring, fetter
Concept
Semantic Field
Clothing and grooming
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
輪
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Centrelink English
- Hopf English
- Hopf link English
- Web English
- Whitehead English
- Whitehead link English
- air English
- airlink English
- back English
- backlink English
- bait English
- boy English
- centre English
- chain English
- chainlink English
- comm English
- commlink English
- cross-link English
- crosslink English
- crosslinker English
- cuff English
- cufflink English
- cufflinked English
- data English
- datalink English
- decrosslink English
- delink English
- delinker English
- dislink English
- downlink English
- drag English
- draglink English
- draw English
- drawlink English
- enlink English
- heterocrosslink English
- hot English
- hotlink English
- hotlinker English
- hyperlink English
- hyperlinkage English
- in English
- inlink English
- interlink English
- interlinkability English
- interlinkable English
- interlinkage English
- lank English
- lanken English
- lankly English
- lankness English
- lanksome English
- lanky English
- link bait English
- link boy English
- linkability English
- linkable English
- linkage English
- linkback English
- linker English
- linkest English
- linketh English
- linkfest English
- linkful English
- linkification English
- linkify English
- linkless English
- linklessly English
- linklessness English
- linklist English
- linklog English
- linkman English
- linkrot English
- linkspan English
- linkup English
- linkware English
- linkway English
- linkwork English
- linky English
- list English
- log English
- mislink English
- mislinkage English
- multilink English
- multilinkage English
- out English
- outlink English
- overlink English
- oxylinkage English
- permalink English
- polylinker English
- red English
- redlink English
- relink English
- relinkage English
- rot English
- sleeve English
- sleeve-link English
- slither English
- slitherlink English
- span English
- strong English
- stronglink English
- sublink English
- unlink English
- unlinkability English
- unlinkable English
- unlinked English
- unlinker English
- up English
- uplink English
- video English
- videolink English
- way English
- weak English
- weaklink English
- weblink English
- wiki English
- wikilink English
- aamulenkki Finnish
- avauslenkki Finnish
- harjoituslenkki Finnish
- hiihtolenkki Finnish
- hiuslenkki Finnish
- ikilinkki Finnish
- juoksulenkki Finnish
- ketunlenkki Finnish
- kiintolenkki Finnish
- kumilenkki Finnish
- kuntolenkki Finnish
- kävelylenkki Finnish
- laitalinkki Finnish
- lenkkeillä Finnish
- lenkki Finnish
- lenkkiavain Finnish
- lenkkikenkä Finnish
- lenkkimakkara Finnish
- lenkkipolku Finnish
- lenkkipuku Finnish
- lenkkitossu Finnish
- lenkkivaatteet Finnish
- linkittää Finnish
- linkki Finnish
- linkkikerros Finnish
- niskalenkki Finnish
- ripustuslenkki Finnish
- Hyperlink German
- Link German
- link Hungarian
- linked Hungarian
- linkek Hungarian
- linkeken Hungarian
- linkeket Hungarian
- linkekre Hungarian
- linkem Hungarian
- linken Hungarian
- linket Hungarian
- linkje Hungarian
- linkre Hungarian
- link Italian
- linkare Italian
- линк Russian
- link Spanish, Castilian
- linquear Spanish, Castilian
- *kleng- Proto-Indo-European
- link Portuguese
- linque Portuguese
- *hlankiz Proto-Germanic
- länk Swedish
- ハイパーリンク Japanese
- リンカ Japanese
- リンカー Japanese
- リンク Japanese
- リンク切れ Japanese
- link Polish
- hlanc Old English
- hlenca Old English
- hlenċe Old English
- linke Middle English
- *hlenkr Old Norse
- hlekkr Old Norse
- hyperlink Danish
- link Danish
- ลิงก์ Thai
- ไฮเปอร์ลิงก์ Thai
- לינק Hebrew (modern)
- liŋka Northern Sami
- lænker Old Swedish
- 링크 Korean
- 하이퍼링크 Korean
- up
- in
- way
- air
- out
- hot
- boy
- log
- rot
- Web
- red
- weak
- draw
- lank
- cuff
- Hopf
- drag
- list
- back
- comm
- wiki
- span
- data
- bait
- video
- lanky
- linky
- chain
- sleeve
- lanken
- strong
- delink
- uplink
- unlink
- enlink
- inlink
- linker
- lankly
- centre
- linkup
- relink
- sublink
- linkify
- weblink
- linkful
- linkage
- redlink
- slither
- linkman
- mislink
- linkrot
- hotlink
- linketh
- linklog
- airlink
- dislink
- linkway
- outlink
- linkest
- draglink
- delinker
- unlinker
- unlinked
- linkspan
- linkless
- linkware
- linkwork
- lanksome
- weaklink
- wikilink
- cufflink
- overlink
- datalink
- drawlink
- commlink
- linkback
- linkfest
- downlink
- link boy
- linkable
- linklist
- backlink
- lankness
- multilink
- Whitehead
- interlink
- hotlinker
- hyperlink
- chainlink
- permalink
- videolink
- Hopf link
- relinkage
- crosslink
- link bait
- oxylinkage
- stronglink
- unlinkable
- polylinker
- linklessly
- mislinkage
- cross-link
- Centrelink
- cufflinked
- linkability
- decrosslink
- slitherlink
- sleeve-link
- crosslinker
- multilinkage
- interlinkage
- linklessness
- hyperlinkage
- linkification
- unlinkability
- interlinkable
- Whitehead link
- heterocrosslink
- interlinkability