| link | |
| 1. n. A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas. | |
| The mayor’s assistant serves as the link to the media. | |
| 2. n. One element of a chain or other connected series. | |
| The third link of the silver chain needs to be resoldered. | |
| The weakest link. | |
| 3. n. abbreviation of hyperlink | |
| The link on the page points to the sports scores. | |
| 4. n. (computing) The connection between buses or systems. | |
| A by-N-link is composed of N lanes. | |
| 5. n. (mathematics) A space comprising one or more disjoint knots. | |
| 6. n. (Sussex) a thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills. | |
| 7. n. (figurative) an individual person or element in a system | |
| 8. n. Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain. | |
| a link of horsehair | |
| 9. n. A sausage that is not a patty. | |
| 10. n. (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 c | |
| 11. n. (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 connecti | |
| 12. n. (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. | |
| 13. n. (chemistry) A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction. | |
| 14. n. (plural) The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream. | |
| 15. v. To connect two or more things. | |
| 16. v. (intransitive, of a Web page) To contain a hyperlink to another page. | |
| My homepage links to my wife's. | |
| 17. v. (transitive, Internet) To supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link. | |
| Haven't you seen his Web site? I'll link you to it. | |
| 18. v. (transitive, Internet) To post a hyperlink to. | |
| Stop linking those unfunny comics all the time! | |
| 19. v. To demonstrate a correlation between two things. | |
| 20. v. (compilation) To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable. | |
| 21. n. (obsolete) A torch, used to light dark streets. | |
