link
A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
Noun 4 meanings
A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
“The mayor’s assistant serves as the link to the media.”
One element of a chain or other connected series.
“The third link of the silver chain needs to be resoldered.”
The connection between buses or systems.
“A by-N-link is composed of N lanes.”
A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
Verb 4 meanings
To connect (two or more things).
To contain a hyperlink to another page.
“My homepage links to my wife's.”
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.”
To post a hyperlink to.
“Stop linking those unfunny comics all the time!”
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”).
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LINK at a glance
LINK has 4 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (L 1 + I 1 + N 1 + K 5) and 10 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,069 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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