link

Mane (Îngilîzî)

Noun

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

Verb

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

Verb

To skip or trip along smartly; to go quickly.

Têgeh

giredan

kiryar

Hevwate

join

connect

connection

tie

unite

bond

bind

associate

relate

couple

👫

link up

joint

nexus

connexion

fasten

attach

contact

merge

combine

relation

relationship

liaison

involve

colligate

linkage

attachment

tie up

junction

connected

ring

💍

tie in

mix

coupling

torch

association

conjunction

bridge

league

conjoin

tether

splice

integrate

put together

tie-in

connective

line

chain

cement

catenate

connectedness

Werger

lien

enlace

🔗

ligação

🔗

Verbindung

collegamento

lier

🔗

relier

Verknüpfung

🔗

verbinden

ligar

🔗

liaison

🔗

link

eslabón

🔗

verbinding

verbinden

Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin

/lɪŋk/

Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

Ji Middle English mîras hatiye girtin: linke

Ji Old English mîras hatiye girtin: hlenċe

In summary

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”). Used in English since the 14th century. Related to lank.