link
Forms
- Plural
- links
- present (v1)
- link
- past (v2)
- linked
- past participle (v3)
- linked
- present participle
- linking
- 3rd person singular
- links
Definitions
1.A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
- The mayor’s assistant serves as the link to the media.
- The link of brotherhood, by which / One common Maker bound me to the kind.
2.One element of a chain or other connected series.
- The third link of the silver chain needs to be resoldered.
3.The connection between buses or systems.
- A by-N-link is composed of N lanes.
4.A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
1.To connect (two or more things).
- 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.
2.To contain a hyperlink to another page.
- My homepage links to my wife's.
3.To post a hyperlink to.
- Stop linking those unfunny comics all the time!
4.To supply (someone) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.
- Haven't you seen his website? I'll link you to it.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1523
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
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.