English Dictionary

link

/lɪŋk/

noun

A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas. / One element of a chain or other connected series. / Abbreviation of hyperlink. / (computing) The connection between buses or systems.

I sent him the link to the website.

意味（1）

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

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

意味（2）

One element of a chain or other connected series.

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

意味（3）

Abbreviation of hyperlink.

The link on the page points to the sports scores.

意味（4）

(computing) The connection between buses or systems.

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

意味（5）

(mathematics) A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.

意味（6）

(Sussex) a thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.

They used formerly to live in caves or huts dug into the side of a bank or link, and lined with heath or straw.

意味（7）

(figuratively) an individual person or element in a system

But know that God is the strongest link.

意味（8）

Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.

a link of horsehair

意味（9）

A sausage that is not a patty.

意味（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.

意味（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.

意味（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.

意味（13）

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

意味（14）

(in the plural) The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream.

'Dame Foljambe,' said the old man, 'the march of thy tale is like the course of the Wye, seventeen miles of links and windings down a fair valley five miles long. […] '

意味（15）

(broadcasting) An introductory cue.

Too much talk on a music-based station can cause listeners who tune in for the music to go elsewhere. […] 'Some people will say “your link has to be 45 seconds long” but I don't do that,' explains the programme controller of Trent FM, Dick Stone.