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Linking

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.

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linking
  1. Serving to connect other things together. n. linkage v

  2. present participle of link.

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Usage examples of "linking".

To achieve this psychological cyclisation and make it aesthetically convincing, the old ways of linking the stories had to be abandoned and a new method had to be found to make the whole composition of the cycle perfectly natural and motivated.

By linking cocaine use with blacks and white women, antidrug campaigners were pulling out all the stops, as they knew that the image of racial minorities having congress with white women would strike at the heart of American society - the very bloodline of the country.

Sachs had already searched the office and removed evidence linking Ashberry to Boyd and taped off certain parts of the room.

By the same token, there is no evidence directly linking Trent Harding to the batrachotoxin that Dr.

It seemed that Coombes had also sought revenge on Miss Cherrystone by linking her name with his.

In manner and appearance, the Columban brother might almost have been the living embodiment of those early times, his white habit and Celtic tonsure linking him with his inheritance of Druid spirituality, which had seen the coming of the teachings of Christ as fulfillment and extension of a Trinitarian concept long honored in their traditions.

Ever since the first development of artificial synapses capable of linking up human nervous systems to silicon-based electronic systems, numerous schemes had been devised for hooking up the brain to computers or adding smart nanotech to its cytoarchitecture, but almost all the experiments had gone disastrously wrong.

To some extent the same prejudices can be seen today, linking drugs and disease, drugs and crime, drugs and sex, drugs and violence and, ultimately, drugs and black people.

For example, there is an almost total absence of fossils linking the Miocene apes such as Dryopithecus with the Pliocene ancestors of modern apes and humans, especially within the span of time between 4 and 8 million years ago.

Surrounding the city, linking the seven corporate complexes with the City Center hub, the magnetic levitation line that Fiddleback had used as a dimensional gate to invade the city stood tall and looked quite benign.

Kohler and the gestaltists regarded such problem-solving as evidence of creative, conceptual thinking, not the linking together of interminable chains of stimuli and responses.

In order to get a good idea of this process it may be enough to read together the disciplinary classics of international law and international economics, linking their observations and prescriptions, which emerge from different disciplinary formations but share a certain neorealism, or really a realism in the Hobbesian sense.

Maude had to content himself with linking up with the Russians at Kizil Robat and driving the Turks from the Diala after their troops in Persia had escaped.

Natural caves had been enlarged and regularized to form compartmentalized buildings with ladders on the outside linking their terraces the way the streets linked the buildings on flatter ground.

May air, Ressler understands that this work, the lookup tablethat rung of the hierarchy linking the life principle with slavish molecular mechanicswill, the minute it is published, be turned to further work, extrapolated, taken farther afield than he can now guess.