Standard Lemma guide
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noun
A mechanical device that connects things.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A connection or relation between things or ideas.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: association, bond, connection, link, relationship
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The act or result of linking: the combination of multiple object files into one executable, library, or object file.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences, software-compilation
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noun
The property of genes of being inherited together.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, genetics, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences
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noun
A set of definitely related languages for which no proto-language can be derived, typically a group of languages within a family that have formed a sprachbund.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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noun
A United States foreign policy, during the 1970s détente in the Cold War, of persuading the Soviet Union to co-operate in restraining revolutions in the Third World in return for nuclear and economic concessions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, countable, historical, uncountable
Topics: government, politics
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noun
the act of linking things together
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: fastening, attachment
noun
a mechanical system of rods or springs or pivots that transmits power or motion
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: mechanical system
noun
(genetics) traits that tend to be inherited together as a consequence of an association between their genes; all of the genes of a given chromosome are linked (where one goes they all go)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: gene linkage
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: inheritance, hereditary pattern
noun
an associative relation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: connection, connexion, connectedness
Narrower terms: link, nexus
History
Etymology tree English link Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh2tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Old French -agebor. Middle English -age English -age English linkage From link + -age.
Across languages
13 source translations are retained for this English entry.
