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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
link
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bridge links sth to/with sth
▪ There's a road bridge linking the site with Stockton town centre.
a direct link/connection
▪ The campaign makes a direct link between global warming and the consumption of energy in the home.
a link to a website (=something on one website that takes you to another website)
▪ His home page has a link to the website.
a linking verb (also copula) (= a verb that connects the subject of a sentence with a word that describes the subject, for example 'seem' in the sentence 'the house seems big')
a rail link (=that makes train travel between two places possible)
▪ He proposed building a high-speed rail link between the two airports.
causal relationship/link/factor etc
▪ a causal relationship between unemployment and crime
cuff link
establish relations/links/contact etc (with sb)
▪ Hungary established diplomatic relations with Chile in 1990.
▪ I wondered why he should bother to try and establish contact with me.
forge a relationship/alliance/link etc (with sb)
▪ In 1776 the United States forged an alliance with France.
▪ The two women had forged a close bond.
▪ Back in the 1980s, they were attempting to forge a new kind of rock music.
golf links
hot link
linking verb
linking word
missing link
▪ Could this be the missing link in the search for a cure for cancer?
sever ties/relations/connections/links etc (with/between sb)
▪ The two countries severed diplomatic relations.
▪ She had severed all contact with her ex-husband.
strengthen ties/bonds/links
▪ He wants to strengthen ties with the West.
tenuous link/connection etc
▪ The United Peace Alliance had only a tenuous connection with the organized Labour movement.
▪ The link between her family and the King’s is rather tenuous.
transport links
▪ The region has good transport links to the capital.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
closely
▪ This is closely linked to their passivity: it does not occur to them that they could make changes in their world.
▪ Two closely linked factors produced this result.
▪ Social mobility, therefore, is again closely linked to spatial mobility.
▪ In that way, too, they were closely linked together; they were both suffering gods.
▪ Our integrity as researchers and the integrity of our research are closely linked.
▪ It was not unlikely that they were closely linked, or even identical, with the forces of gravity and of electromagnetism.
▪ Within linguistics, then, as we have seen within other disciplines, these two concepts are closely linked.
▪ The development of Confucianism was closely linked with the teaching of the educated classes.
directly
▪ Subsistence crises ceased after the 1850s and their disappearance can be linked directly with the rise of the railways.
▪ The second phase also provides upgraded services for 200 to 300 research facilities directly linked to this backbone.
▪ The collapse was not directly linked to the motor car side, but it threatened the cars' future.
▪ Dialogue also gives readers an interesting-sounding, firsthand account of information directly linked to your subject.
▪ The brick-making operations were often directly linked with the railway, as for instance at Whittlesea, near Peterborough.
▪ Some of the trips, like the trip to Walden Pond described earlier, are directly linked to academics.
▪ Needless to say you can link directly to the vendor's Web site from the listings.
▪ From the 1930s, the clearing banks directly linked their interest rates to Bank Rate.
inextricably
▪ As young models, Liz and Vanessa become friends and then rivals, their lives linked inextricably over the years.
▪ Self-constituting activity is inextricably linked with meaning-producing activity 4.
▪ The representation of syntactic information in the lexicon is inextricably linked with the grammar being used.
▪ It is then that the questions of who and what we are become inextricably linked with those about the nature of reality.
▪ The end product of such a course of evolution is an obligate parasite that is inextricably linked to a particular host.
▪ Of course, the two mothering modifications are inextricably linked.
▪ We think of parrots as inextricably linked with our world.
▪ Thus, how the world presents itself to me and how I understand myself are inextricably linked.
strongly
▪ They had a strong sense of shared identity, had been trained together, and were strongly linked by kinship ties.
▪ Demonstratives and the definite article are terms whose mobilisation and use would be strongly linked to this kind of deixis.
■ NOUN
activity
▪ Increasingly, they have been linked to more nefarious activities, from cheating on taxes to financing cocaine traffickers.
▪ Self-constituting activity is inextricably linked with meaning-producing activity 4.
▪ Did he have any reason to link their activities with the murder of Garland's son?
▪ This may be linked to functional activities, like lifting a cup to the mouth.
▪ The daemons are closely linked with religious cult activity.
▪ Over the past 10years whale and dolphin deaths have been linked to increased fishing activity.
▪ However, a more realistic approach is to see trips as forming a chain, linking activities through the day.
▪ They are created as firms seek new advantages by linking together markets and activities that previously were kept separate.
arm
▪ Lady Isabella linked her arm through his.
▪ Julia Patterson as she linked arms with two other senators and escaped down the marble stairs.
▪ Madeleine linked her arm into Louis's.
▪ The two-minute video shows the protesters casually entering the office before linking arms through the tubes.
▪ Margaret linked her arm through mine and we walked to the zebra-crossing.
▪ Athelstan linked his arm through that of the coroner and they carefully made their way down Cheapside.
▪ Outside in the street Maggie linked arms with Laura.
▪ He walked between us, linking arms.
chain
▪ A chain linking her handcuffs was tied to a bar above her, and Sams warned there were boulders over her head.
▪ In some minerals two single chains are combined to form double chains, in which the chains are linked by cations.
▪ This is the first time a high street fast food chain has linked up with a theme park.
▪ It is a rope to hang ourselves, or a chain to link together diverse peoples.
▪ However, a more realistic approach is to see trips as forming a chain, linking activities through the day.
▪ He argued that the sinister-looking chain-link is actually a safety measure, preventing fighters from tumbling into the crowd.
city
▪ Through the World's Edge Mountains great fortified underground roads linked their underground cities.
▪ They extended horizontally into the desert but were linked to the center city by good roads and a trolley system.
▪ But it managed to reach them, convert them, link them to its cities, and exploit their resources.
▪ Praha Metro is also planning a fourth route linking the city centre and the southern suburbs.
▪ The canals linking the city to St Petersburg in the south were built by slave labour in Stalin's days.
▪ The Highland Railway, which linked these two cities in 1863, followed Mitchell's line almost exactly.
computer
▪ Atari wants to link home computers to school computers via telephone lines.
▪ PalmPilots can install software only by linking to a personal computer.
▪ Small children are queuing to take it in turns to sit in a special armchair linked up to a computer.
▪ Customers will be linked to a local computer dealer, which will deliver the products.
▪ This can be established by programs in which the actual experimental apparatus is linked to a computer simulation.
▪ Each country runs a national network that links to a host computer in a research institution that acts as a national hub.
▪ Central reservation systems Large groups of hotels which are linked by computer usually operate their own central reservation system.
▪ The need for securing the communications link between computers via encryption is expected to rise.
death
▪ But bereavement is usually linked to the death of some one close, like our parents.
▪ Several studies have shown that the physical stresses of repeatedly gaining and losing weight are linked with earl, deaths.
▪ Pepper spray has been linked to the deaths of 39 people in California and 80 people across the country.
▪ This week, health officials are linking the death of a 3-week-old boy in Indiana to the pet iguana.
evidence
▪ There was no forensic evidence to link Mr Nichol to the attack.
▪ Giuliani said there was no evidence the shooting was linked to anything else.
▪ While the evidence linking increased cell proliferation and colorectal cancer is good, the converse is less clear cut.
▪ Still, he said physical evidence linking Ray to the crime is overwhelming.
▪ It would also take account of the fact that evidence linking hazardous waste with harm to human health is uncertain, at best.
▪ In the lab and in the courtroom, the evidence linking implants and disease is lacking.
▪ Soil temperature was not controlled in our study, and so the evidence linking temperature and root mortality is circumstantial.
▪ Meanwhile, studies published in the Western Journal of Medicine found no evidence linking implants with connective tissue diseases.
name
▪ Public outrage at the enormity linked the names of Mary and Bothwell.
▪ The concept is so closely linked with his names that it is difficult, sometimes, to separate the two.
network
▪ Strictly speaking, the Internet is an international network of computers linked up to exchange information.
▪ Complex applications will require several networks to be linked together.
▪ Visa Delta is a debit card network linked with the Visa credit card network.
▪ State and Campus Networks State and campus networks link into regional networks.
▪ Unlike Xinet, the network does not link machines made by more than one company.
▪ Each country runs a national network that links to a host computer in a research institution that acts as a national hub.
▪ The departmental network is linked to the University's mainframe computer services for statistical analysis packages and similar services.
▪ It is estimated that every thirty minutes a major network links into the Internet.
rail
▪ In many cases they have the public on their side as the recent furore over the rail links with London has demonstrated.
▪ Encouraging full use of the potential of the County's rail links with Channel Tunnel rail terminals.
road
▪ This required 18 traverses, short stretches of road linked by sharp bends, with beyond it a ravine.
▪ Narrow dirt roads connect the farms to the wider dirt road which links North Chittendon with Montpelier and Barre.
▪ The road, linking Gateshead to the Tyne Bridge, needs repairs totalling £700,000.
▪ Newby is a quiet village between the busy A65 and the old road linking Ingleton and Clapham with road access to both.
▪ The sub-arterial road was to be an intermediate class of road designed to link up the main arterials to the local roads.
▪ The road serving Kinlochbervie is linked to the A.838, branching off at Rhiconich.
▪ It is located on the road which links the two.
system
▪ TSMDesk is a Helpdesk management system, linking users and information support staff, and third party support agencies if required.
▪ In fact, variations in several other neurotransmitter systems have been tentatively linked to alcoholism.
▪ What is clear is that the most successful computerised personnel systems link payroll and personnel together.
▪ School-to-work systems generally link learning at school and at work to help young people see the connections between the two.
▪ It therefore comes as no great surprise that these systems are not easily linked up to talk to one another.
▪ Chapter 9 analyzes the alternative frameworks through which the political system and the economic system are linked.
▪ The systems developed will link economic, social and environmental data.
▪ The greater challenge is to create a system that links these individual programs into some sort of coherent whole.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be inextricably linked/bound up/mixed etc
▪ For in fact political theories, doctrines or ideologies, and political action are inextricably bound up with each other.
▪ In her mind the murder and the attack at the Chagall museum were inextricably bound up with the secret of the Durances.
▪ It makes you understand that you are inextricably bound up with each other and that your fortunes depend on one another.
▪ Within the workplace inequality and conflict are inextricably bound up, irrespective of the relationship between particular managements and workforces.
intimate link/connection etc
▪ Heat had intimate links with chemistry, and optics with astronomy.
▪ Mythologies all over the world describe the intimate connection, often antipathy, between birds and snakes.
▪ Traditionally, an intimate connection has been seen between style and an author's personality.
the missing link
the weak/weakest link
▪ A patio door could be the weak link in your domestic security chain.
▪ Anderson is the weakest link in his.
▪ Below that speed it is impossible to generate sufficient lift to overload the weak link.
▪ Breaking the weak link proved a bigger hazard than actual cable breaks or power failures.
▪ This boy was more the Weakest Link as he ducked out of taking two decisions to deny Leeds the win they deserved.
▪ This is the weakest link in the chain, and we have a system for chasing referees and eventually going elsewhere.
▪ This time, it was the primacy of the office as gathering place that was the weak link in the chain.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ All the PCs in the office are linked to a main server.
▪ An intense concern for human rights links the two poets.
▪ Batangas and Puerto Galera are linked by a ferry service which runs twice daily.
▪ For centuries farmers have linked the behavior of animals and plants to changes in the weather.
▪ His name has been linked with several famous actresses since he and his wife separated last year.
▪ Interstate 5 links San Diego and Los Angeles.
▪ Police are linking the availability of alcohol and a recent rise in the number of teenage arrests.
▪ The Brooklyn Bridge links Brooklyn and Manhattan.
▪ The Channel Tunnel has linked Britain with mainland Europe for the first time.
▪ The college provides technology to all faculty members and students to link them to the Internet.
▪ The health department has linked several cases of food poisoning with contaminated shellfish.
▪ The two TV stations are linked by satellite.
▪ There's a fault in the wire that links the printer with the computer.
▪ There is an underwater telephone cable linking the two islands.
▪ They are planning a new high-speed railway to link the two capitals.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A private television circuit will link Clinton with his questioners.
▪ Busy traffic very soon humanized these inland seas, linking their coasts, their civilizations and their history.
▪ GISs allow geographically oriented information about disease distribution and occurrence to be visually and analytically linked to images of the environment.
▪ It is also linked to Lotus, so that information needs can be addressed in different formats.
▪ Nigel Clough was instructed to link in attack with Shearer.
▪ Smoking takes place in a smoke house which is linked by a pipe to a firebox.
▪ State and Campus Networks State and campus networks link into regional networks.
▪ This is closely linked to their passivity: it does not occur to them that they could make changes in their world.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
causal
▪ We want a link between belief and truth to prevent this happening, and a causal link looks promising.
▪ In other words it enables one to modify the artificially simplistic notion of clear-cut dependent and independent variables having one-way causal links.
▪ The material causal links may not always be readily perceivable, but they are there all the same.
▪ Some courts have however looked to the causal link between the existence of a hearing and the final outcome.
▪ The cognitive model proposes a direct causal link: participation brings about enhanced information on goals, and so performance is improved.
▪ There could be a causal link between demanding social justice and realism as a method, but it is not shown.
▪ If this causal link is not present the application will fail.
▪ Explanation extends our understanding of the world, by moving beyond simple observation of events to the causal links underpinning them.
clear
▪ There must be a clear link between information and argument.
▪ Once established, initiatives in the vision of how must sustain a clear and compelling link to performance.
▪ There was a clear link with past practices of fitting the ideology to the needs of the state rather than its constituent members.
▪ Such an agreement, however, has clearer links with the factory floor than the consulting room.
▪ Research has shown clear links between the level of crime and number of children brought up in poverty in families in difficulty.
▪ I also discussed with Marshal Shaposhnikov the ways in which we could establish clearer links between us and our staffs.
▪ In the event, no clear link was detected.
▪ There is a clear link between the intensity of cell proliferation and susceptibility to neoplasia.
close
▪ It is important that the close link with the local authority remains.
▪ More recently, philosophy has had very close links with mathematics and artificial intelligence.
▪ There were close links between the alchemists and the gnostics, and for the gnostics the picture was bleaker still.
▪ Pierpont Morgan was attacked by populist Democrats - whose descendants now argue for closer links between banks and industry.
▪ There were close links between the Brush Electrical Engineering Co.
▪ The enduring point is that close links did not make finance the slave of industry.
▪ In line with an earlier discussion in this Report, the Commission recommends that local churches establish close working links with school music departments.
direct
▪ Any direct link between this and the McMahon Act is unlikely.
▪ But it is Azima who is the direct link between Thompson and the current fund-raising furor.
▪ The study of small mammal fossils Fossils provide one of our most direct links with the prehistoric past.
▪ All major on-line services have offered access to the Internet news groups and now have direct links to remote systems.
▪ This is most obviously important where there is a direct link between the degree subject and occupation.
▪ But so far, no direct link has been made between any of these corpses and the Pernkopf anatomy.
▪ In fact there is no direct link between the status of women and the reckoning of descent in one line or another.
▪ By train, it will take just 40 minutes on the direct rail link from Liverpool Street.
economic
▪ However, even political hostility did not entirely break these old economic links.
formal
▪ By establishing formal links with the universities, and international specialists, they hope to redress the balance.
▪ Partnerships - How to forge more formal links with your foreign counterparts for joint ventures.
▪ An individual could have formal links with one but still keep informal connections with the other.
▪ However, this document, Guidelines on Risk Issues, does not have a formal link with the framework outlined overleaf.
▪ Only infrequently is there a formal link.
▪ Some IFAs have no formal links with a group of providers but work on commission.
▪ Notice that there are no formal links in any of the exchanges, but they are nevertheless easy to understand.
important
▪ At the same time he established important links with the continental book trade.
▪ This forgotten highway once formed part of an important link between Saltash, Crafthole and the sea.
▪ They were also an important link between agitation out of doors and influence within the walls of parliament.
▪ Threatened groups bring in wives from outside and thus establish important social links promising external support and succour.
▪ There is an important link between the equity objective and the concept of need.
▪ The most important links are political.
▪ There are many important links between them, as also with the Constitution on the Liturgy.
▪ This illustrates the important link between objectives and assessment.
international
▪ To facilitate international links between the public networks, efforts are being made to standardise different countries' ISDNs.
▪ Until recently, most governments have exercised either direct or indirect control over national telecommunications as well as international links.
▪ The council had a committee dealing satisfactorily with the promotion of Cheltenham's existing international links.
▪ In addition to seeking goodwill and international business links, Brown will receive an honorary doctorate from Seoul University.
▪ This would be a first step in working towards forming international links and networks.
▪ For philosophies to spread so readily, there had to be innumerable international links.
▪ All the big firms have strong international links that cushion them somewhat from domestic troubles.
▪ In addition, users are charged according to the service they use on international links, which are expensive to support.
main
▪ Allestry died in 1670, but Martyn continued as the Society's main link with the book trade for another decade.
▪ Television provides the main link between sport and corporate sponsorship.
▪ The main link between the two productions lies in David Troughton s dazzling performance.
▪ Furthermore, it was only during this period that scientific advance identified the main links between insanitary conditions and disease.
missing
▪ Here the missing link is frequently the directly observed contextual detail which is so crucial in anthropological field work.
▪ I have no doubt it would contain some valuable missing links and insights to the historian.
▪ This is meaningful conversation between missing links took place after a rapid.
▪ This uncharted section was finally penetrated after arduous effort in 1983 and the mystery of the missing link solved.
▪ Where there is a co-ordination problem the issuing of an authoritative directive can supply the missing link in the argument.
▪ Garau was the missing link who sold drugs to both Debbie Maxwell and to the shepherds.
▪ The grid diameter is 100-150m and the facilities involved are very simple paths, bridges and short missing links.
▪ The missing link is the shareholders.
possible
▪ The movement between nodes is made possible by activating links, which connect related concepts or nodes.
▪ Finally, I made the point that relates to the possible links between animal and human communication.
▪ Now police are investigating possible links between his killing and the murder last week of caretaker Andrew Collier in London.
▪ Scientists can also understand more about possible links with extreme weather like hurricanes.
▪ The possible links with other unsolved child murders began to be explored.
▪ There have been a number of studies of possible links between cancer in children and proximity to high voltage cables.
▪ Detectives say they are looking at possible links with recent assaults on women in Oxford.
strong
▪ The Centre also has strong links with the industry and policy community in the field.
▪ But there often is not a strong link between these work experiences and their classes.
▪ Or at the least very strong links have to be created with those customers.
▪ Symbols are very important in this stage, and names can provide a strong link with a perceived regional past.
▪ The college has built up strong links with local industry and this will be reflected on the board.
▪ Memorial services are still held here and strong links are maintained with the 351st Bomber Group Association. 11.
▪ Indeed, they already store numerous records generated by government agencies and have developed strong links with the producers of machine-readable data.
tenuous
▪ Shift work added to the tenuous links between incomer men and their Shetlander neighbours.
vital
▪ Missi continued to be expected to supervise counts, and to act as vital links between palace and counties.
▪ Hams snap into action during times of crisis, providing vital links when traditional modes of communication crumble.
▪ In principle therefore payment of an Affiliation Fee would be an overt recognition of this vital link and mutual benefit. 5.
▪ Everywhere in the world, he provides the vital link between nature and the musician.
▪ For over five million passengers, Aurigny has become part of their holiday memories or a vital link with the outside world.
▪ The road from Salen is the tenuous lifeline of Ardnamurchan, the vital link with the world outside its boundaries.
▪ Public transport is seen as a vital link to the shops and services of the town centre.
weak
▪ Breaking the weak link proved a bigger hazard than actual cable breaks or power failures.
▪ Anderson is the weakest link in his.
▪ With such fundamental changes involved, a business can only be as strong as its weakest link.
▪ This time, it was the primacy of the office as gathering place that was the weak link in the chain.
▪ The layer reinforces the wall's weak link - the mortar.
▪ Therefore, the leadership challenge is to have no weak links.
▪ This is the weakest link in the chain, and we have a system for chasing referees and eventually going elsewhere.
▪ It can not solve all problems, and like any system it is only as strong as its weakest link.
■ NOUN
chain
▪ But in the end the resident was only allowed to inspect the security of the chain link fence around the dump.
▪ About every third property boasted a brand-new chain link fence, erected to corral Cod knows what kind of beast.
▪ Through the mouth there appears to be the remains of a chain link from which the knife would have been suspended.
▪ A couple of the boys did once, climbing over the high chain link fence around the playground.
▪ Before she had taken five steps she hit the chain link fencing that was invisible in the darkness.
▪ The Republicans have fenced off the convention with chain link.
▪ Poking through chain link fences at factories and construction sites.
cuff
▪ The bishop never took off his suit jacket or removed the glittering cuff links engraved with his episcopal shield.
▪ In I.. Magnin they have house detectives who look great, cuff links, tailored suits.
▪ For example, when Jasper turned fifty I gave him a pair of malachite cuff links.
rail
▪ Will he take note of the campaign to sink the link, as the channel tunnel rail link passes Gravesend and Northfleet?
▪ I stress that King's Cross would offer advantages even if no rail link were built.
▪ By train, it will take just 40 minutes on the direct rail link from Liverpool Street.
▪ However, outlying villages had been attacked and the city's rail link with Phnom Penh was frequently severed.
▪ The Government have made their position clear on the route of the high-speed rail link and there is no reconsideration.
▪ He also knows that there are plans for a high-speed rail link to run through Stratford.
▪ The completion date for the rail link is uncertain.
road
▪ Road access will be via a purpose-built junction on the M56 airport link road.
▪ He had spotted another lay-by, beyond Jena, just before the link road to the autobahn back to the border.
▪ It is part of the £17.5m link road between the M53 and A55.
▪ The link road to the M1 now uses this very route.
satellite
▪ Filling in the gaps in local services by leasing dedicated satellite links and other telecoms services adds just 7 percent to costs.
▪ She might arrange for a satellite link thousands of miles away, or a microwave link around the corner.
▪ They say some cafes have illegal direct satellite links to the internet, to which the authorities often turn a blind eye.
telephone
▪ When it was first launched in 1982 a Minitel terminal consisted of a small monitor with a keyboard and a telephone link.
▪ The President and I agreed to establish a secure telephone link between our two offices.
■ VERB
break
▪ Personnel changes confirmed the new liberalism in the Soviet Union and the attempt to break links with past behaviour.
▪ But that he would deliberately attempt to break that link was something that he would never admit, even to himself.
▪ Pensioners will be worse off every week because the Government broke the link with earnings.
▪ However, even political hostility did not entirely break these old economic links.
▪ But can Cobra go mass-market without breaking its umbilical link to curry?
▪ Whereas conceptual art chooses to break the link between art and craft, it is this link that any painting re-enacts.
build
▪ The goal of all Catholic schools must be to build close links with both partners.
▪ The college has built up strong links with local industry and this will be reflected on the board.
▪ These may be very useful where it is hoped to build in cross-curricular links.
▪ A joint economic commission was established to build on the growing links between the two countries.
▪ He mocked Britain's failure to start building a high-speed link from London to its side of the tunnel.
▪ The site will build links to Emap's leading entertainment websites to provide additional content and user benefits.
▪ A World of Work centre is being built, with strong links to local businesses, which provide vocational training.
▪ But building international links across sectors can help build links against enemies.
create
▪ Which were the main industrial towns in the hinterland created by the canal links?
▪ There had to be meeting points for the exchange of ideas, institutions that would create links among the citizens.
▪ When we calculated that we lacked aesthetic sensibility, we created the link.
▪ It also helps create links between the additional context of the experiment and the real-life world of the classroom.
▪ Hence, Congress immediately perceived the practicality of creating a physical link between them, and approved the necessary funds.
▪ Before you continue to create the links, you must save your file into the directory that will be permanently storing it.
▪ Cluster headings are used to create a link between the criteria and each process.
▪ To create a link, click the image to select it and choose Insert, Hyperlink.
develop
▪ People need freedom to develop good links with the community.
▪ As a result he developed links with Hastings as well as Gloucester, but it was the latter which dictated his actions in 1483.
▪ In recognition of their importance and the need to train more volunteers, we want to develop links with individual churches.
▪ Indeed, they already store numerous records generated by government agencies and have developed strong links with the producers of machine-readable data.
▪ In order to assure industry relevance, the association would wish to develop close links at an early stage with institutions seeking accreditation.
▪ We plan to develop links to enable Finance staff to access the financial parts of the package directly.
▪ Community businesses, it was suggested, should develop links with the trade union movement and the public sector.
establish
▪ The Profitboss has a simple way of establishing the contribution link to profit.
▪ Many Northern Ireland companies already have well established exporting links.
▪ Lydecker established a mental link with Keiko.
▪ Threatened groups bring in wives from outside and thus establish important social links promising external support and succour.
▪ Even if such reports were accurate, these phenomena have no established link with the onset of earthquakes.
▪ To reiterate: every language has its own devices for establishing cohesive links.
▪ Its mission is to establish effective links between education and business.
forge
▪ Partnerships - How to forge more formal links with your foreign counterparts for joint ventures.
▪ These organizations played a decisive role in forging patient links with the outside world.
▪ It is the verb to bring down that forges the link between the otherwise still nouns and pronoun in the sentence.
▪ The details of how Strominger and collaborators forged the link are highly mathematical arguments only a physicist could love.
▪ They at least are aware of the potential of relationships between the different levels and may be forging some co-operative links between them.
▪ It has refused to explain itself to the mainstream media, or to forge strong links with anyone outside the protest community.
▪ You are the people who make our work possible and I try to forge more tangible links between us.
form
▪ It's time, while Mercury is forming a sharp link to Jupiter, to find out how smart you really are.
▪ Furthermore, by the time of the first appointment, the Volunteers had already formed strong in-group links and loyal. ties.
▪ Initially, therefore, the tutor forms the link between the student and the course.
▪ Depending on the state of the remaining infrastructure, this could form a central link in the future network.
▪ This would be a first step in working towards forming international links and networks.
▪ The village stands at the terminus of the great trench occupied by the inland Loch Maree, the river forming a link.
▪ There were others whom I felt I was unable to form any kind of link during the interview.
maintain
▪ The couple still maintain close links with local schools, where they spend hours researching, sketching and absorbing jokes.
▪ Morton accepted but always maintained links to Sellers in Philadelphia, a hundred miles to the south.
▪ It maintains a link with Fiat, though - its 1.4-litre engine is the same as that used in the Tipo.
▪ The routine was unvarying, and I deliberately kept it as a technique of maintaining a personal link between us.
▪ The Centre aims to maintain a strong focus on those questions affecting the voluntary sector and to maintain close links with it.
▪ But Harwood was infuriated by the perceived loss of his friend and sought to maintain the link.
▪ Convocation is the organisation through which graduates can maintain links with each other and with the University.
▪ His head moves for the first time to follow his eyes and maintain the essential link of communication signals.
provide
▪ Satcoms based on modern digital satellites like C-Sat could provide affordable data links.
▪ Sprint and Southwestern Bell are among the carriers providing links.
▪ Symbols are very important in this stage, and names can provide a strong link with a perceived regional past.
▪ Historical objects provide links with the people who made and used them.
▪ Hams snap into action during times of crisis, providing vital links when traditional modes of communication crumble.
▪ The class of models to be considered provides link between conventional time series and econometric models.
▪ The anytime / anyplace option gives flexibility to the organization, providing the links among its nodes.
sever
▪ The Consolidated Capital Fund would sever the link between finance and accounting.
▪ The girls who join know that they are expected to sever their links with family and loved ones.
▪ However, I know I myself don't want to sever my links with the past.
▪ To cross them was to break tradition, to sever one's links and become an outsider.
▪ Hundreds of members of the 100,000-strong party backed Mr Alton and threatened to sever their links with the party.
▪ Its values now those of a specialist activity, design severs the communicative link which formerly bound it to society.
▪ Often this was easier after they had severed their links with the movement.
▪ The answer must be that it could not since the fact of adopting depreciation accounting severs the link with finance.
strengthen
▪ Even gifts made to individuals are as a rule intended to strengthen family links.
▪ The banks are also strengthening their links with university researchers.
▪ Worse still, our elected representatives, far from strengthening their links with voters, actually become less accountable to them.
▪ Active steps were also taken to strengthen links with local trade unions.
▪ The Reception was a great success, and strengthened still further the link between the School and the Company.
suggest
▪ Some evidence suggests a link between no-fault laws and divorce.
▪ The bleaching of reefs has coincided with the hot years of the 1980s, suggesting a link with rising sea temperatures.
▪ For the most part, studies that have suggested a positive link have been those with the poorest research design.
▪ The frequent association of massive quantities of ignimbrite with large calderas suggests a genetic link.
▪ But on the whole, there is little evidence to suggest a link between male wage levels and fertility.
▪ Hence the pangolin suggests a link between animal and human kind.
▪ The portraits were arranged to form a three-dimensional family tree, and to suggest links with the imperial family in Rome.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be inextricably linked/bound up/mixed etc
▪ For in fact political theories, doctrines or ideologies, and political action are inextricably bound up with each other.
▪ In her mind the murder and the attack at the Chagall museum were inextricably bound up with the secret of the Durances.
▪ It makes you understand that you are inextricably bound up with each other and that your fortunes depend on one another.
▪ Within the workplace inequality and conflict are inextricably bound up, irrespective of the relationship between particular managements and workforces.
break a link/tie/connection
▪ Mr Eastwood argues it would break ties with local communities.
▪ Personnel changes confirmed the new liberalism in the Soviet Union and the attempt to break links with past behaviour.
intimate link/connection etc
▪ Heat had intimate links with chemistry, and optics with astronomy.
▪ Mythologies all over the world describe the intimate connection, often antipathy, between birds and snakes.
▪ Traditionally, an intimate connection has been seen between style and an author's personality.
the missing link
the weak/weakest link
▪ A patio door could be the weak link in your domestic security chain.
▪ Anderson is the weakest link in his.
▪ Below that speed it is impossible to generate sufficient lift to overload the weak link.
▪ Breaking the weak link proved a bigger hazard than actual cable breaks or power failures.
▪ This boy was more the Weakest Link as he ducked out of taking two decisions to deny Leeds the win they deserved.
▪ This is the weakest link in the chain, and we have a system for chasing referees and eventually going elsewhere.
▪ This time, it was the primacy of the office as gathering place that was the weak link in the chain.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a telephone link between the two presidents
▪ Police are investigating the scene to determine if there are any links with last week's bombing.
▪ Rebels bombed the Beira railroad, a vital link between the capital and the port.
▪ Some scientists believe there may be a link between caffeine and heart disease.
▪ The two TV stations are joined by a satellite link.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Certainly that link is strong and clear in the Old Testament Scriptures.
▪ Good telecommunications links can bring them closer to western markets, giving their skilled workers less incentive to emigrate.
▪ He is our link to the outside world.
▪ It is the verb to bring down that forges the link between the otherwise still nouns and pronoun in the sentence.
▪ Six devices have been sent to people with links to pest control, farming and hunting in the past fortnight.
▪ The material causal links may not always be readily perceivable, but they are there all the same.
▪ They were the only link with the people in the field.
▪ With such fundamental changes involved, a business can only be as strong as its weakest link.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Link

Link \Link\ (l[i^][ng]k), n. [Prob. corrupted from lint and this for lunt a torch, match, D. lont match; akin to G. lunte, cf. MHG. l["u]nden to burn. Cf. Lunt, Linstock.] A torch made of tow and pitch, or the like.
--Shak.

Link

Link \Link\, n. [OE. linke, AS. hlence; akin to Sw. l["a]nk ring of a chain, Dan. l[ae]nke chain, Icel. hlekkr; cf. G. gelenk joint, link, ring of a chain, lenken to bend.]

  1. A single ring or division of a chain.

  2. Hence: Anything, whether material or not, which binds together, or connects, separate things; a part of a connected series; a tie; a bond. ``Links of iron.''
    --Shak.

    The link of brotherhood, by which One common Maker bound me to the kind.
    --Cowper.

    And so by double links enchained themselves in lover's life.
    --Gascoigne.

  3. Anything doubled and closed like a link; as, a link of horsehair.
    --Mortimer.

  4. (Kinematics) Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.

  5. (Mach.) Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (Steam Engine), 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.

  6. (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. Cf. Chain, n., 4.

    7. (Chem.) A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; -- applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.

  8. pl. Sausages; -- because linked together. [Colloq.]

Link

Link \Link\, v. i. To be connected.

No one generation could link with the other.
--Burke.

Link

Link \Link\ (l[i^][ng]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Linked (l[i^][ng]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Linking.] To connect or unite with a link or as with a link; to join; to attach; to unite; to couple.

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.
--Eustace.

Link

Link \Link\ (l[i^][ng]k), n. [See Linch.]

  1. A hill or ridge, as a sand hill, or a wooded or turfy bank between cultivated fields, etc. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

  2. A winding of a river; also, the ground along such a winding; a meander; -- usually in pl. [Scot.]

    The windings or ``links'' of the Forth above and below Stirling are extremely tortuous.
    --Encyc. Brit.

  3. pl. Sand hills with the surrounding level or undulating land, such as occur along the seashore, a river bank, etc.

    Golf may be played on any park or common, but its original home is the ``links'' or common land which is found by the seashore, where the short close tuft, the sandy subsoil, and the many natural obstacles in the shape of bents, whins, sand holes, and banks, supply the conditions which are essential to the proper pursuit of the game.
    --Encyc. of Sport.

  4. pl. Hence, any such piece of ground where golf is played; a golf course.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
link

early 15c., "one of a series of rings or loops which form a chain; section of a cord," probably from Old Norse *hlenkr or a similar Scandinavian source (compare Old Norse hlekkr "link," Old Swedish lænker "chain, link," Norwegian lenke, Danish lænke), from Proto-Germanic *khlink- (cognates: German lenken "to bend, turn, lead," gelenk "articulation, joint, link," Old English hlencan (plural) "armor"), from PIE root *kleng- "to bend, turn." Missing link between man and apes dates to 1880.

link

"bind, fasten, to couple," late 14c., believed to be from link (n.), though it is attested earlier. Related: Linked; linking.

link

"torch," 1520s, of uncertain origin, possibly from Medieval Latin linchinus, from lichinus "wick," from Greek lykhnos "portable light, lamp."

Wiktionary
link

Etymology 1 n. 1 A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas. 2 One element of a chain or other connected series. 3 (abbreviation of hyperlink English) 4 (context computing English) The connection between buses or systems. 5 (context mathematics English) A space comprise one or more disjoint knots. 6 (context Sussex English) a thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills. 7 (context figurative English) an individual person or element in a (l en system) 8 Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain. 9 (context kinematics English) 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. 10 (context engineering English) 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. 11 (context surveying English) 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. 12 (context chemistry English) A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To connect two or more things. 2 (context intransitive of a Web page English) To contain a hyperlink to another page. 3 (context transitive Internet English) To supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link. 4 (context transitive Internet English) To post a hyperlink to. 5 (context transitive English) To demonstrate a correlation between two things. Etymology 2

n. (context obsolete English) A torch, used to light dark streets. Etymology 3

vb. (context Scotland English) To skip or trip along smartly.

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WordNet
link

  1. v. make a logical or causal connection; "I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind"; "colligate these facts"; "I cannot relate these events at all" [syn: associate, tie in, relate, colligate, link up, connect] [ant: decouple]

  2. connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces; "Can you connect the two loudspeakers?"; "Tie the ropes together"; "Link arms" [syn: connect, tie, link up] [ant: disconnect]

  3. be or become joined or united or linked; "The two streets connect to become a highway"; "Our paths joined"; "The travelers linked up again at the airport" [syn: connect, link up, join, unite]

  4. link with or as with a yoke; "yoke the oxen together" [syn: yoke]

link

  1. n. the means of connection between things linked in series [syn: nexus]

  2. a fastener that serves to join or link; "the walls are held together with metal links placed in the wet mortar during construction" [syn: linkup, tie, tie-in]

  3. the state of being connected; "the connection between church and state is inescapable" [syn: connection, connectedness] [ant: disjunction]

  4. a connecting shape [syn: connection, connexion]

  5. a unit of length equal to 1/100 of a chain

  6. (computing) an instruction that connects one part of a program or an element on a list to another program or list

  7. a channel for communication between groups; "he provided a liaison with the guerrillas" [syn: liaison, contact, inter-group communication]

  8. a two-way radio communication system (usually microwave); part of a more extensive telecommunication network [syn: radio link]

  9. an interconnecting circuit between two or more locations for the purpose of transmitting and receiving data [syn: data link]

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Wikipedia
Link

Link or Links may refer to:

Link (The Legend of Zelda)

refers to several different incarnations of the same of Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda series. Link has been also featured in other media from Nintendo, including its merchandising, comic books, and a cartoon series, becoming one of Nintendo's main icons as well as one of the most well-known and popular characters in video game history.

Through The Legend of Zelda series, Link is depicted as a child, teenager, or adult of the Hylian race, originating from the fictional land of Hyrule. Link often travels through Hyrule, defeating creatures, evil forces, and the series' primary antagonist, Ganon, while attempting to save Princess Zelda and Hyrule. To defeat Ganon, Link usually requires the mystic Master Sword and Light Arrows, or a similar legendary weapon, obtained after many trials and battles. In the course of his journey he will typically acquire various other magical objects or items, including musical instruments and weaponry.

Link has also made several cameo appearances in a few Mario games. He is a playable character via DLC in the newest installment to the Mario Kart series of games, Mario Kart 8. He is also a playable character in the Super Smash Bros. series, being one of the twelve original characters.

Link (knot theory)

In mathematical knot theory, a link is a collection of knots which do not intersect, but which may be linked (or knotted) together. A knot can be described as a link with one component. Links and knots are studied in a branch of mathematics called knot theory. Implicit in this definition is that there is a trivial reference link, usually called the unlink, but the word is also sometimes used in context where there is no notion of a trivial link.

For example, a co-dimension two link in 3-dimensional space is a subspace of 3-dimensional Euclidean space (or often the 3-sphere) whose connected components are homeomorphic to circles.

The simplest nontrivial example of a link with more than one component is called the Hopf link, which consists of two circles (or unknots) linked together once. The circles in the Borromean rings are collectively linked despite the fact that no two of them are directly linked. The Borromean rings thus form a Brunnian link and in fact constitute the simplest such link.

Link (magazine)

Link is a publication of The Greenville News and Gannett. The headquarters is in Greenville, South Carolina. It features local entertainment, news, photos, reviews and more. It is a free publication and is available at almost 1,200 locations in Anderson, Greenville, Pickens and Spartanburg counties of the Upstate South Carolina.

Link (geometry)

In geometry, the link of a vertex of a 2- dimensional simplicial complex is a graph that encodes information about the local structure of the complex at the vertex.

It is a graph-theoretic analog to a sphere centered at a point.

Link (Unix)

The link utility is a Unix command line program that creates a hard link from an existing directory entry to a new directory entry. It does no more than call the link system function. It does not perform error checking before attempting to create the link. It returns an exit status that indicates whether the link was created (0 if successful, >0 if an error occurred). Creating a link to a directory entry that is itself a directory requires elevated privileges.

The ln command is more commonly used as it provides more features: it can create both hard links and symbolic links, and has error checking.

Link (song)

"Link" is the twenty-ninth single by L'Arc-en-Ciel, released on July 20, 2005. It is the second track by the band to be used in the Fullmetal Alchemist anime franchise, following " Ready Steady Go", used as the opening theme to the feature-length film Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa. The second track "Promised Land 2005" is a remake of an old song by their self-cover band P'unk-en-Ciel. The single reached number 2 on the Oricon chart.

Link (unit)

The link (usually abbreviated as "l.", "li." or "lnk."), sometimes called a Gunter’s link, is a unit of length formerly used in many English-speaking countries. A link is exactly of a foot, or exactly 7.92 inches.

The unit is based on Gunter's chain, a metal chain 66 feet long with 100 links, that was formerly used in land surveying. Even after the original tool was replaced by later instruments of higher precision, the unit itself was commonly used in this application throughout the English-speaking world (e.g. in the United States customary system of measurements and the Imperial system). The length of the foot, and hence the link, varied slightly from place to place and time to time, but in modern times the difference between, say, the US survey foot and the international foot is two parts per million. The link fell out of general use in the 20th century.

Link (film)

Link is a 1986 British horror film starring Elisabeth Shue and Terence Stamp. The title character, "Link", is a super-intelligent yet malicious orangutan who lashes out against his masters when they try to have him euthanized.

It was directed by Richard Franklin and written by Everett De Roche from a story by Lee David Zlotoff and Tom Ackermann. The score was provided by Jerry Goldsmith. It was filmed in St. Abbs, Scotland.

Shue and Goldsmith received Saturn Award nominations for their contributions.

Although the title primate is clearly an orangutan, he is referred to as a chimpanzee through the entire film, and his fur appears to have been dyed black (Orangutans have reddish-brown fur).

LINK (UK)

LINK is a shared interbank network of automated teller machines (ATMs) operating in the United Kingdom. The network counts 38 member institutions, of which many are various banks and building societies issuing LINK ATM cards, and the remainder are independent ATM operators who do not issue cards. The network connects over 70,000 ATMs - virtually every ATM in the United Kingdom. The number of LINK free-to-use ATMs has continued to grow and overall ATM numbers are at an all-time high.

The LINK network infrastructure is operated by VocaLink, a company formed in 2007 by the merger of LINK Interchange Network Limited and Voca Limited. The LINK ATM scheme is a separate entity which is run by the Scheme members.

In addition to providing the core ATM transaction switching and settlement service to LINK network members, VocaLink Limited provides outsourced ATM, card and mobile payment services and provides access to Post Office counters for basic banking transactions.

LINK ATMs also offer a prepay mobile phone top up facility at 50,000 ATMs.

UK issued debit cards generally come with a LINK EMV application in addition to a point of sale EMV application that can be Visa Debit, Debit MasterCard, Maestro, Visa Electron or UnionPay applications.

Link (singer)

Lincoln Browder, better known by his stage name Link, is an American R&B singer from Dallas, Texas.

Browder sang in gospel choirs as a youngster and in a group in high school. Darrell Allamby recruited him to sing in the R&B group Protege, but the group split up before making any headway.

After writing the hit " My Body" for the R&B supergroup LSG, Link was offered his own recording contract with Relativity Records. His 1998 debut album, Sex Down, spawned one Top 40 hit single in the US, "Whatcha Gonna Do?" (#23 Billboard Hot 100, #15 US Billboard R&B). The track peaked at #48 in the UK Singles Chart in November 1998. In addition a second charting single was issued, "I Don't Wanna See," which reached #43 on the US R&B chart and #25 on the Hot Singles Sales chart.

Link also wrote songs for Silk, Tony Thompson, Tamar Braxton and Gerald Levert.

In 2008, he released his second album Creepin independently. Additionally, a digital single "Erotic" was released in 2013.

Currently, he's at work with R&B singer Adina Howard on an upcoming duet.

Link (Indonesia)

Link is an interbank network in Indonesia. It connects four state owned banks. The banks are Bank Mandiri, Bank Tabungan Negara, BNI 46, and Bank Rakyat Indonesia. This network is owned by State-owned Banks Association (HIMBARA). This network provides cash withdrawal and inquiry services in their network.

Category:Interbank networks

Link (surname)

Link is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Edwin Albert Link (1904–1981), American inventor and engineer
  • Goethe Link (1879–1980), American surgeon and amateur astronomer
  • Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767–1850), German naturalist and botanist
  • Kelly Link, American editor and author of short stories
  • William Link, American film and television writer and producer
Link (Porno Graffitti song)

Link is the twenty-second single by the Japanese Pop-rock band Porno Graffitti. It was released on July 18, 2007.

Link (Mars)

Link is a rock outcrop on the surface of Aeolis Palus, between Peace Vallis and Aeolis Mons ("Mount Sharp"), in Gale crater on the planet Mars. The outcrop was encountered by the Curiosity rover on the way from Bradbury Landing to Glenelg Intrique on September 2, 2012 (the 27th sol of the mission), and was named after a significant rock formation (and lake) in the Northwest Territories of Canada. The "approximate" site coordinates are: . The outcrop is a well-sorted gravel conglomerate, containing well-rounded, smooth, abraded pebbles. Pebbles and gravel a few millimeters to centimeters across are embedded in amongst a finer, white matrix. This outcrop geology is strikingly similar to some terrestrial fluvial conglomerates. Around the rock are scattered well sorted loose gravel around 1 cm across, which are thought to be weathering out of the outcrop.

The rock has been interpreted as a cemented fluvial sediment, deposited by a "vigorously" flowing stream, probably between ankle and waist deep. This stream is part of an ancient alluvial fan, which descends from the steep terrain at the rim of Gale crater across its floor.

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Usage examples of "link".

We may, however, omit for the present any consideration of the particular providence, that beforehand decision which accomplishes or holds things in abeyance to some good purpose and gives or withholds in our own regard: when we have established the Universal Providence which we affirm, we can link the secondary with it.

Spirit, with each node in the continuum of being, each link in the chain, being absolutely necessary and intrinsically valuable.

On the abutment towers the chains are connected by horizontal links, carried on rockers, to anchor ties.

Each chain over a shore span consists of two segments, the longer attached to the tie at the top of the river tower, the shorter to the link at the top of the abutment tower, and the two jointed together at the lowest point.

Achieving this end required that Einstein forge a second link in the chain uniting gravity and accelerated motion: the curvature of space and time, to which we now turn.

A linking verb, one that expresses a state of being, always requires an adjective to complete its meaning, while an active verb does not.

She is calling racism, sexism, class ism ageism, homophobia, and colonialism by the name of body hatred, and She is linking the politics of control back to the abuse of Flerself.

No food element has been more closely linked to arterial aging than these kinds of fats, found mostly in meats, full-fat dairy products, baked goods, fried fast foods, and palm and coconut oils.

Thirteenth Egyptian Dynasty, while the alabastron of Khyan links the later portion of the period with the Hyksos domination in Egypt.

The allegation on the tapes that Vernon Jordan was trying to silence Lewinsky with a job was the perfect link to their investigation of Jordan, whom they suspected was trying to silence Webster Hubbell by helping him get a lucrative contract with Revlon.

One case linked to contaminated equipment caused amebiasis, a parasitic infection, in thirty-six people.

The Epilogue over, Mistress Dubois, Betterton, and the pretty boy who played Amoroso linked hands and were bowing to the audience, which was on its feet again, applauding the actors.

He went across to the Q-ship communicator one last time and initiated a Link sequence to Anabasis Headquarters on Ceres.

The great news must be transmitted through the Link to Anabasis Headquarters.

This is a clear link between the anointing of Jesus and the Song of Songs.