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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.

1782–1785, William Cowper, “(please specify the page)”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC:

And so by double lynkes enchaynde themselues in louers life

1573, George Gascoigne, A Hundreth Sundry Flowres:

A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.

The third link of the silver chain needs to be resoldered.

The weakest link.

One element of a chain or other connected series.

The link on the page points to the sports scores.

A by-N-link is composed of N lanes.

(computing) The connection between buses or systems.

(mathematics) A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.

They used formerly to live in caves or huts dug into the side of a bank or "link," and lined with heath or straw.

2008, Richard John King, A Handbook for Travellers in Kent and Sussex:

(Sussex) a thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.

But know that God is the strongest link.

2010, James O. Young, My Sheep Know My Voice: anointed poetry, AuthorHouse, page 32:

The fuse is the weakest link in the system. As such, the fuse is also the most valuable link in the system.

2010, William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, Jill Butler, Universal Principles of Design, RockPort, page 262:

“[…] This is so that nobody can change the way every link must talk about the formula that I taught to make a real Chain of Universal Love and not a Chain of Love of a group or sect.”

2010, Stephen Fairweather, The Missing Book of Genesis, AuthorHouse, page 219:

(figurative) an individual person or element in a system

a link of horsehair

1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:

Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.

(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.

'Dame Foljambe,' said the old man, 'the march of thy tale is like the course of the Wye, seventeen miles of links and windings down a fair valley five miles long. […]'

1822, Allan Cunningham, “The King of the Peak”, in Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry, volume 1, page 222:

(in the plural) The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream.

Too much talk on a music-based station can cause listeners who tune in for the music to go elsewhere. […] 'Some people will say “your link has to be 45 seconds long” but I don't do that,' explains the programme controller of Trent FM, Dick Stone.

2002, Carole Fleming, The Radio Handbook, page 53:

a chain is only as strong as its weakest link

Azerbaijani: link

Belarusian: лінк (link)

Bulgarian: линк (link)

Catalan: link

Chinese:

Hong Kong Cantonese: link (ling1), 拎 (ling1)

Czech: link

Danish: link

Dutch: link

Estonian: link

Finnish: linkki

Georgian: ლინკი (linḳi)

German: link

Hebrew: לינק (línk)

Hindi: लिंक (liṅk)

Hungarian: link

Italian: link

Japanese: リンク (rinku)

Korean: 링크 (ringkeu)

Lower Sorbian: link

Macedonian: линк (link)

Persian: لینک (link)

Polish: link

Portuguese: link

Romanian: link

Serbo-Croatian: линк, link

Slovak: link

Spanish: link

Russian: линк (link)

Thai: ลิงก์ (líng)

Turkish: link

Ukrainian: лінк (link)

Yiddish: לינק (link)

tejlidhje

computing: short for hyperlink — see also hyperlink

enllaç

computing: connection between buses or systems

Verschlingung

mathematics: space comprising one or more disjoint knots

lenkki

anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain

кули́са

kinematics: elementary piece of a mechanism by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained

шарни́р

engineering: intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion

lenkki

surveying: length of one joint of Gunter's chain

mutka

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”). Used in English since the 14th century. Related to lank.


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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.

1813, :Template:w#, A Tour Through Italy:

(transitive) To connect (two or more things).

My homepage links to my wife's.

(intransitive, Internet, of a web page) To contain a hyperlink to another page.

Haven't you seen his website? I'll link you to it.

(transitive, Internet) To supply (someone) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.

Stop linking those unfunny comics all the time!

(transitive, Internet) To post a hyperlink to.

(transitive) To demonstrate a correlation between (two things).

(software compilation) To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable.

Linked us, now she don't wanna link them man again / Your ex plays in the Prem but you never see him taking a pen

2016 February 14, Joseph Adenuga, Darren Dixon, Tariq Devega (lyrics and music), “Ladies Hit Squad” (track 6), in Konnichiwa, performed by Skepta ft. D Double E and ASAP Nast, Boy Better Know:

I might link my ting from Barkin'

Same old questions, what's your body count?
Who were you linkin' before me?

2019, “Same Old Story” (track 6), in Ignorance Is Bliss, performed by Skepta:

(transitive, slang) To meet with (someone).

en-verb

link (third-person singular simple present links, present participle linking, simple past and past participle linked)

links (present singular third-person)
linking (participle present)
linked (participle past)
linked (past)


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Thou hast saved me a thousand marks in links and torches

c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:

You were coming out of the Italian Opera, ma’am, in white satin and jewels, a blaze of splendour, when I hadn’t a penny to buy a link to light you.’

1854, Charles Dickens, chapter 7, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC:

Give me a loan of the link, Dick.

1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:

(obsolete) A torch, used to light dark streets.

Plausibly a modification of Medieval Latin linchinus (“candle”), an alteration of Latin lynchinus, itself from Ancient Greek λύχνος (lúkhnos, “lamp”).


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On a sudden he was aware of a man linking along at his side. He cried a fine night, and the man replied.

1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

(Scotland, intransitive) To skip or trip along smartly; to go quickly.