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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.

link (plural links)

  1. A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
    The mayor’s assistant serves as the link to the media.
    • 1573, George Gascoigne, A Hundreth Sundry Flowres:
      And so by double lynkes enchaynde themselues in louers life
  2. One element of a chain or other connected series.
    The third link of the silver chain needs to be resoldered.
    The weakest link.
  3. Abbreviation of hyperlink.
    The link on the page points to the sports scores.
  4. (computing) The connection between buses or systems.
    A by-N-link is composed of N lanes.
  5. (mathematics) A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
  6. (Sussex) A thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.
    • 2008, Richard John King, A Handbook for Travellers in Kent and Sussex:
      They used formerly to live in caves or huts dug into the side of a bank or "link," and lined with heath or straw.
  7. (figurative) An individual person or element in a system
    • 2010, James O. Young, My Sheep Know My Voice: anointed poetry, AuthorHouse, page 32:
      But know that God is the strongest link.
    • 2010, William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, Jill Butler, Universal Principles of Design, RockPort, page 262:
      The fuse is the weakest link in the system. As such, the fuse is also the most valuable link in the system.
    • 2010, Stephen Fairweather, The Missing Book of Genesis, AuthorHouse, page 219:
      “ […] 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.”
  8. Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.
    • 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:
      a link of horsehair
  9. A sausage that is not a patty.
  10. (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.
  11. (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.
  12. (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. (chemistry) A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
  14. (in the plural) The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream.
  1. (broadcasting) An introductory cue.

All borrowed.

connection

element of a chain

computing: short for hyperlink — see also hyperlink

computing: connection between buses or systems

mathematics: space comprising one or more disjoint knots

thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches

anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain

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

  1. (transitive) To connect (two or more things).
    • 1813, John Chetwode Eustace, A Tour Through Italy:
      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. (intransitive, Internet, of a web page) To contain a hyperlink to another page.
    My homepage links to my wife's.
  3. (transitive, Internet) 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.
  4. (transitive, Internet) To post a hyperlink to.
    Stop linking those unfunny comics all the time!
  5. (transitive) To demonstrate a correlation between (two things).
  6. (software compilation) To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable.
    (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  7. (transitive, slang) To meet with (someone).
    • 2019, “Same Old Story” (track 6), in Ignorance Is Bliss, performed by Skepta:
      Same old questions, what's your body count?
      Who were you linkin' before me?

to connect

to contain a hyperlink to another page

to combine objects into an executable

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

link (plural links)

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

torch

Unknown.

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

  1. (Scotland, intransitive) To skip or trip along smartly; to go quickly.
    • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
      On a sudden he was aware of a man linking along at his side. He cried a fine night, and the man replied.

From English link.

link

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, computing) hyperlink (Classifier: 條／条 c)

link

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, computing) to link; to add a hyperlink

link m inan

  1. link, hyperlink

Borrowed from English link (since 1995).

link n (singular definite linket, plural indefinite **link or links)

  1. link (hyperlink)

From Proto-West Germanic *link. Cognate with German link (“left; devious”), Middle Low German link (“left”). Further origin unknown.

link (comparative linker, superlative linkst)

  1. dangerous
  2. (crime slang) sly, cunning
  3. (slang) jolly, nice
  4. obsolete form of links, linker (“left, not right”)
Declension of link
uninflected link
inflected linke
comparative linker
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial link linker het linksthet linkste
indefinite m./f. sing. linke linkere linkste
n. sing. link linker linkste
plural linke linkere linkste
definite linke linkere linkste
partitive links linkers —

Late 20th century, borrowed from English link.

link m (plural links, diminutive linkje n)

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

From Middle High German linc, lenc, from Old High German *link, lenk (“left”); compare Old High German lenka (“the left hand”).

link (strong nominative masculine singular linker, comparative linker, superlative am linkesten or am linksten)

  1. (only attributive and not comparable) left
    auf der linken Seite ― on the left
    ihr linker Fuß ― her left foot
  2. (colloquial) untrustworthy
  3. (colloquial) dubious, wrong, disreputable, questionable
  4. (colloquial) sly, cunning

Comparative forms of link

Superlative forms of link

Unadapted borrowing from English link.[1]

link (plural linkek)

  1. link, hyperlink
    Synonyms: hivatkozás, hiperhivatkozás

Borrowed from Yiddish לינק (link), from German link (“left”).[1]

link (comparative linkebb, superlative leglinkebb)

  1. (colloquial) flighty, fickle, fishy, shifty, sleazy, phoney (unreliable, irresponsible, often dishonest)
    Synonyms: könnyelmű, léha, komolytalan, megbízhatatlan, szélhámos
    link alak ― crook, loafer
    link duma ― baloney, eyewash, claptrap, flannel
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 István Tótfalusi (2005), Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára [A Storehouse of Foreign Words: An Explanatory and Etymological Dictionary of Foreign Words], Budapest: Tinta, →ISBN

Unadapted borrowing from English link.

link m (invariable)

  1. (computing) link (hyperlink)
    Synonym: collegamento

From a clipping of liñki, liñkui, or liñkuo, ultimately from the same root as liñkti (“to tend”), linkė́ti (“to wish”).[1]

li̇̃nk

  1. toward [_with_ genitive]

liñk

  1. second-person singular imperative of liñkti

  2. ^ Wojciech Smoczyński (2018), “liñk”, in Lithuanian Etymological Dictionary, Berlin, Germany: Peter Lang, →DOI, →ISBN, page 357

Pennsylvania German

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Compare German link.

link

  1. left, left-hand

Borrowed from English link.

link m inan

  1. (Internet) hyperlink, link (some text or a graphic in an electronic document that can be activated to display another document or trigger an action)
    Synonyms: hiperłącze, odnośnik, odsyłacz

Unadapted borrowing from English link.

link m (plural links)

  1. (computing) link (text or a graphic that can be activated to open another document)
    Synonyms: hiperligação, ligação

Unadapted borrowing from English link.

link n (plural linkuri)

  1. link

From English link.

lȉnk m inan (Cyrillic spelling ли̏нк)

  1. (computing, Internet) link, hyperlink
    Synonym: pòveznica

Borrowed from English link.

link m (plural links)

  1. (computing) link (text or a graphic that can be activated to open another document)
    Synonym: enlace
    • 2019 April 8, Astrid Morales, “Nueva estafa busca robar credenciales de usuarios de Netflix”, in Prensa Libre‎[5]:
      En el link puede observarse que no hace referencia a la compañía y que el servidor corresponde a un servicio de hosting gratuito de Emiratos Árabes.
      At the link you can see that it does not reference the company and that the server belongs to a free hosting service from the [United] Arab Emirates.