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Links
is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
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noun
1.
one of the rings or separate pieces of which a chain is composed.
2.
anything serving to connect one part or thing with another; a bond or tie: The locket was a link with the past.
3.
a unit in a communications system, as a radio relay station or a television booster station.
4.
any of a series of sausages in a chain.
5.
EXPANDa cuff link.
6.
a ring, loop, or the like: a link of hair.
7.
Computers. an object, as text or graphics, linked through hypertext to a document, another object, etc.
8.
Surveying, Civil Engineering.
a.
(in a surveyor's chain) a unit of length equal to 7.92 inches (20.12 centimeters).
b.
one of 100 rods or loops of equal length forming a surveyor's or engineer's chain.
9.
Chemistry. bond1 (def. 15).
10.
COLLAPSEMachinery. a rigid, movable piece or rod, connected with other parts by means of pivots or the like, for the purpose of transmitting motion.
Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English link(e) < Old Danish lænkia chain; cognate with Old Norse hlekkr link (plural, chain), Old English hlence coat of chain mail, akin to German Gelenk joint
1375–1425; late Middle English link(e) < Old Danish lænkia chain; cognate with Old Norse hlekkr link (plural, chain), Old English hlence coat of chain mail, akin to German Gelenk joint
Related forms
link·er, noun
Synonyms
2. connection, connective, copula. 10. bond, league, conjoin, fasten, bind, tie, pin.
2. connection, connective, copula. 10. bond, league, conjoin, fasten, bind, tie, pin.
noun
a torch, especially of tow and pitch.
Origin:
1520–30; perhaps special use of link1; the torches so called may have been made of strands twisted together in chainlike form
1520–30; perhaps special use of link1; the torches so called may have been made of strands twisted together in chainlike form
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Link To links
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World English Dictionary
| links (lɪŋks) | |
| —pl n | |
| 1. | a. short for golf links |
| b. (as modifier): a links course | |
| 2. | chiefly (Scot) undulating sandy ground near the shore |
| [Old English hlincas plural of hlinc ridge] | |
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Word Origin & History
link
mid-15c., "one of a series of rings or loops which form a chain," probably from O.N. *hlenkr (cf. O.Swed. lænker "chain, link," Norw. lenke, Dan. lænke), from P.Gmc. *khlankijaz (cf. Ger. lenken "to bend, turn, lead," gelenk "articulation, joint, link," O.E. hlencan (pl.) "armor"), from PIE
EXPANDbase *qleng- "to bend." The verb (late 14c.) is believed to be from the noun, though it is attested earlier. Missing link between man and apes dates to 1880.
links
"undulating sandy ground," 1728, from Scottish/Northumbrian link "sandy, rolling ground near seashore," from O.E. hlinc "rising ground, ridge;" perhaps from the same P.Gmc. root as lean (v.); cf. O.E. hlinan "to lean." This type of landscape in Scotland was where golf first
was played; the word has been part of the names of golf courses since at least 1728.
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Science Dictionary
link  (lĭngk) Pronunciation Key
A segment of text or a graphical item that serves as a cross-reference between parts of a webpage or other hypertext documents or between webpages or other hypertext documents. |
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