link

B1
Pronunciation
/lɪŋk/
Noun
16 definition(s)
1 Definition

Some text or a graphic in an electronic document that can be activated to display another document or trigger an action.

Example Sentences
  • Click the hyperlink to go to the next page.
2 Definition

(by extension) An address, URL, or program that defines a hyperlink's function.

Example Sentences
  • Copy the hyperlink and paste it into an email.
3 Definition

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

Example Sentences
  • The mayor’s assistant serves as the link to the media.
4 Definition

One element of a chain or other connected series.

Example Sentences
  • The third link of the silver chain needs to be resoldered.
5 Definition

The connection between buses or systems.

Example Sentences
  • A by-N-link is composed of N lanes.
6 Definition

A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.

7 Definition

A thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.

8 Definition

An individual person or element in a system

9 Definition

Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.

Example Sentences
  • a link of horsehair
10 Definition

A sausage that is not a patty.

11 Definition

(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.

12 Definition

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.

13 Definition

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.

14 Definition

A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.

15 Definition

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

16 Definition

A torch, used to light dark streets.

Verb
7 definition(s)
1 Definition

To connect two or more things.

2 Definition

(of a Web page) To contain a hyperlink to another page.

Example Sentences
  • My homepage links to my wife's.
3 Definition

To supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.

Example Sentences
  • Haven't you seen his Web site? I'll link you to it.
4 Definition

To post a hyperlink to.

Example Sentences
  • Stop linking those unfunny comics all the time!
5 Definition

To demonstrate a correlation between two things.

6 Definition

To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable.

7 Definition

To skip or trip along smartly; to go quickly.