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Etymology 1

From Middle English linke, lenke, from a merger of Old English hlen?e, hlen?a (“ring; chainkink”) 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.

Noun

link (plural links)

  1. A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
  2. One element of a chain or other connected series.
  3. Abbreviation of hyperlink.
  4. (computing) The connection between buses or systems.
  5. (mathematics) A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
  6. (Sussex) 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. (kinematics) 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. (engineering) 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. (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.
  13. (chemistry) A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
  14. (plural) The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream.
Verb

link (third-person singular simple present links, present participle linking, simple past and past participle linked)

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

Etymology 2

Plausibly a modification of Medieval Latin linchinus (“candle”), an alteration of Latin lynchinus, itself from Ancient Greek ?????? (lúkhnos, “lamp”).

Noun

link (plural links)

  1. (obsolete) A torch, used to light dark streets.

Etymology 3

Origin unknown.

Verb

link (third-person singular simple present links, present participle linking, simple past and past participle linked)

  1. (Scotland, intransitive) To skip or trip along smartly; to go quickly. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Results 393 Words with the letters LINK

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8 letter words with the letters LINK 
7 letter words with the letters LINK 
6 letter words with the letters LINK 
ALKINE 12
BLINKS 15
CALKIN 15
CLINKS 15
DINKLY 15
INKLES 12
KALIAN 12
KAOLIN 12
KELVIN 16
KILNED 13
KINDLE 13
KINDLY 15
KINGLY 16
LAKING 14
LIKENS 12
LIKING 14
LINKED 13
LINKER 12
LINKUP 16
MALKIN 15
NICKEL 15
NICKLE 15
PINKLY 17
PLINKS 15
RELINK 12
SILKEN 12
SLINKS 12
SLINKY 14
TINKLE 12
TINKLY 14
UNLIKE 13
UNLINK 14
UPLINK 16
WELKIN 15
WINKLE 15
5 letter words with the letters LINK 
BLINK 14
CLINK 14
INKLE 11
KILNS 11
LIKEN 11
LINKS 11
LINKY 13
PLINK 14
SLINK 11
4 letter words with the letters LINK 
KILN 10
LINK 10
3 letter words with the letters LINK 
ILK 8
INK 8
KIN 8
LIN 5
NIL 5
2 letter words with the letters LINK 
IN 3
KI 6
LI 3

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