link

Etymology 1
From, , from a merger of , and , ; both from. Used in English since the 14th century. Related to.

Noun

 * 1) A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
 * 2) One element of a chain or other connected series.
 * 3)  The connection between buses or systems.
 * 4)  A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
 * 5)  a thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.
 * 6)  an individual person or element in a system
 * 7) Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.
 * 8) A sausage that is not a patty.
 * 9)  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.
 * 10)  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.
 * 11)  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.
 * 12)  A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
 * 13)  The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream.
 * 14)  An introductory cue.
 * 1)  an individual person or element in a system
 * 2) Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.
 * 3) A sausage that is not a patty.
 * 4)  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.
 * 5)  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.
 * 6)  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.
 * 7)  A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
 * 8)  The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream.
 * 9)  An introductory cue.
 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
 * 3)  The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream.
 * 4)  An introductory cue.
 * 1)  An introductory cue.

Synonyms

 * ; See also Thesaurus:link

Translations

 * Arabic: وَصْلَة
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: ligãturã
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: су́вязь, злучэ́нне
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:, propojení
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: ühendus
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:, ,
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:, , , ,
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese: pranala
 * Kabuverdianu: élu
 * Korean: ,
 * Ladino: atamiento, atadijo
 * Latvian: saikne
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: врска
 * Malay:
 * Maori: hononga, taukaea
 * Norman: lian
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ве̏за
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: spojenie, prepojenie
 * Slovene: povezava, zveza
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tajik:
 * Tocharian B: meske
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * West Frisian: ferbining, keppeling


 * Arabic: وَصْلَة
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: звяно́
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto:, ligaĵo
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:, grilón,
 * German: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Interlingua: anello
 * Italian: ,
 * Korean:
 * Latgalian: trūps, puosmys
 * Latvian: posms
 * Macedonian: алка
 * Maori: rīki
 * Norman: lian
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Ottoman Turkish: حلقه, باقلا
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ка̀рика, беочуг
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: článok
 * Slovene: člen
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tarifit: asɣun
 * Thai: ลูกโซ่
 * Ukrainian:
 * West Frisian: keppeling


 * Albanian: tejlidhje,
 * Arabic:, وَصْلَة
 * Hijazi Arabic: رَابِط
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Belarusian:, лінк
 * Bulgarian: линк,, хипервръ́зка
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Crimean Tatar: bağlantı
 * Czech: odkaz,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: ligilo
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, lien ,
 * Galician: ligazón, hiperligazón
 * Georgian: ბმული, ლინკი
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew: לִינְק
 * Hindi: लिंक
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Ido:, hiperligilo
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua: ligamine, link
 * Irish:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Ladino: atamiento
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: saitas
 * Lower Sorbian: link
 * Macedonian: врска,, поврзница, линк
 * Malay:
 * Norman: lian
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Ossetian: ӕрвитӕн
 * Persian:, لینک,
 * Polish:, , , ,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian: hyperlink,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: по̀везница, ли̏нк
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: odkaz,
 * Slovene: povezava
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Thai: ,
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Urdu: ربط
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Walloon: ,
 * Yiddish: פֿאַרבינדונג, לינק


 * Catalan: ,
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Galician: ligazón
 * German:
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: врска
 * Persian: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese: ,


 * German: Verschlingung,


 * German: Wildnisstreifen


 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Finnish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * German:, Getriebeglied, Koppelstange


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Maori: rīki


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * German: Bindigkeit
 * Serbo-Croatian:


 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Norman:
 * Romanian:

Verb

 * 1)  To connect two or more things.
 * 2)  To contain a hyperlink to another page.
 * 3)  To supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.
 * 4)  To post a hyperlink to.
 * 5)  To demonstrate a correlation between two things.
 * 6)  To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable.
 * 7)  To meet with someone.
 * 1)  To demonstrate a correlation between two things.
 * 2)  To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable.
 * 3)  To meet with someone.
 * 1)  To meet with someone.

Synonyms

 * ,, , ; see also Thesaurus:join

Derived terms

 * linkee

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:, ,
 * Danish: forbinde, kæde, sammenkæde
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: ligar,
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:, , linkare
 * Khmer: ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao:
 * Macedonian: врзува, поврзува, сврзува
 * Maori: tūhono, hono, tauhere
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Slovene: povezati
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Thai:
 * Ukrainian: з'є́днувати, поє́днувати, сполуча́ти
 * Vietnamese:


 * Catalan:
 * Czech: odkazovat
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:,  (sur), ,
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish:
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Swedish:


 * Esperanto: bindi

Etymology 2
Plausibly a modification of, an alteration of , itself from.

Noun

 * 1)  A torch, used to light dark streets.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: факла
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * French: ,
 * German: Spanlicht ,
 * Latvian: lāpa

Etymology 3
.

Verb

 * 1)  To skip or trip along smartly; to go quickly.

Translations

 * German:, umherhüpfen

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  hyperlink

Verb

 * 1)  to link; to add a hyperlink

Noun

 * , hyperlink

Etymology
Borrowed from (since 1995).

Noun

 * 1)  (hyperlink)

Adjective

 * 1) dangerous
 * 2)  sly; cunning
 * 3)  jolly, nice

Etymology 2
Borrowed from, only since late 20th century.

Noun

 * 1) physical connection, as in a hardware cable
 * 2)  logical connection, as in reasoning about causality
 * 3) hyperlink

Etymology
From, from ; compare 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1)  left
 * 2)  untrustworthy
 * 3)  dubious, wrong, disreputable, questionable
 * 4)  sly, cunning
 * 1)  dubious, wrong, disreputable, questionable
 * 2)  sly, cunning

Etymology 1
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) link, hyperlink

Etymology 2
Borrowed from, from.

Adjective

 * 1)  flighty, fickle, fishy, shifty, sleazy, phoney unreliable, irresponsible, often dishonest

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)   hyperlink

Etymology
From a, , or , ultimately from the same root as ,.

Preposition

 * 1) toward (used with genitive case)

Etymology
Compare 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) left, left-hand

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  hyperlink,

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)   text or a graphic that can be activated to open another document

Etymology
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Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)   text or a graphic that can be activated to open another document