link

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a fastener that serves to join or connect

   the walls are held together with metal links placed in the wet mortar during construction

2. 2
   noun

   an instruction that connects one part of a program or an element on a list to another program or list as in computing

   I need to link these two programs.

3. 3
   noun

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

   The mayor’s assistant serves as the link to the media.

4. 4
   noun

   One element of a chain or other connected series.

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

5. 5
   noun

   Abbreviation of hyperlink.

   The link on the page points to the sports scores.

6. 6
   noun

   The connection between buses or systems.

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

7. 7
   noun

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

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

8. 8
   noun

   An individual person or element in a system

   But know that God is the strongest link.

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. Cognates Cognate with Low German Lenk (“link”), Danish lænke (“chain; link”), Elfdalian lekk (“link”), Icelandic hlekkur (“link”), Norwegian Bokmål lenke (“chain; link”), Norwegian Nynorsk lenke, lenkje (“chain;…