link

Academic Word List, sublist 3.

About 29.95 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.

   The mayor’s assistant serves as the link to the media.

2. noun One element of a chain or other connected series.

   The third link of the silver chain needs to be resoldered.

3. noun Abbreviation of hyperlink.

   The link on the page points to the sports scores.

4. noun The connection between buses or systems.

   A by-N-link is composed of N lanes.

5. noun One or more disjoint knots, possibly unable to be sparated.
6. noun A thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.
7. noun An individual person or element in a system.
8. noun Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.

Similar words

linkup connection nexus connexion connectedness connect tie-in unite associate liaison

Often followed by

between to with in the is of up and

Word family

linkage linkages linked linker linkers linking links