different between clinker vs linker

English

Alternative forms

• (brick): klinker

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kl??k?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kl??k?/
• Rhymes: -??k?(r)
• Hyphenation: clink?er

Etymology 1

From Dutch klinkaerd, later klinker, from klinken (“to ring, resound”).

Noun

clinker (countable and uncountable, plural clinkers)

1. A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands. [from 17th c.]
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter XXXII, p. 581, [1]

     She left the road at the little shed where he whom she still regarded as her father used to keep his tricycle, and walked up the clinker path towards the house.

2. A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat. [from 17th c.]
3. Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling. [from 18th c.]
   • 1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts, "Dew and Alarm Clocks," [2]

     Cold and grim sat that malevolent brute the furnace, greedy, bottomless—its grate bars clenched over clinkers which no shaker could dislodge.

4. An intermediate product in the manufacture of Portland cement, obtained by sintering limestone and alumino-silicate materials such as clay into nodules in a cement kiln.
5. Hardened volcanic lava. [from 19th c.]
   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 10:

     Nobody could pretend that a huge slope of clinker is aesthetically pleasing.

6. A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging. [from 19th c.]

Derived terms

• clinker block

Translations

Verb

clinker (third-person singular simple present clinkers, present participle clinkering, simple past and past participle clinkered)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To convert or be converted into clinker.
   • 1923, United States Geological Survey, Bulletin 748 (page 125)

     This burning has baked and clinkered the adjacent strata, producing a very resistant formation, which rises with conspicuous abruptness from the flat terrace underlain by the soft Lebo shale member.

   • 1981, David W. Schultz, Municipal solid waste, resource recovery: Proceedings of the seventh annual research symposium at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 16-18

     The use of coal with a low ash fusion temperature (1204°C, or 2200°F) caused frequent clinkering on the grate during initial tests. The clinkering stopped when the coal was replaced with one having a higher fusion temperature […]

Etymology 2

From clink +? -er.

Noun

clinker (plural clinkers)

1. Someone or something that clinks.
2. (in the plural) Fetters.

Translations

Etymology 3

From clincher

Noun

clinker (uncountable)

1. (nautical, chiefly attributive) A style of boatbuilding using overlapping planks.

   clinker planking; a clinker dinghy

Synonyms

• lapstrake

Derived terms

• clinker-built
• clinkerwise

Translations

Anagrams

• crinkle

French

Noun

clinker m (plural clinkers)

1. clinker

English

Etymology

link +? -er

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?l??k?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l??k?/
• Rhymes: -??k?(?)

Noun

linker (plural linkers)

1. That which links.
2. (software compilation) a computer program that takes one or more objects generated by compilers and assembles them into a single executable program.
3. (genetics) A short oligonucleotide containing a recognition sequence for a restriction enzyme, used to blunt the ends of sticky DNA segments.
4. (grammar) A word or short expression that links clauses or other syntactic elements.
5. (finance, informal) A linked bond, one for which the principal is indexed to inflation.

Synonyms

• link editor

Derived terms

• linker DNA

Translations

Verb

linker (third-person singular simple present linkers, present participle linkering, simple past and past participle linkered)

1. (genetics) To ligate a DNA segment using a linker.
   • 1994, Ray Shillito et al., "Zea mays plants regenerated from protoplasts or protoplast-derived cells", US Patent 5770450, page 52:

     38. The plasmid pRK252 Km is cut with ecoRI, blunt-ended using Klenow, and linkered with BgIII linkers (New England Biolabs).

Anagrams

• Kerlin, klerin, relink

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??k?r

Adjective

linker (not comparable)

1. left

   Er zit een vlek op je linker broekspijp.

   There’s a spot on your left trouserleg.

Inflection

Synonyms

• links

Antonyms

• rechter

Adjective

linker

1. Comparative form of link

German

Etymology

From Middle High German linc, lenc also: linkisch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l??k?/
• Hyphenation: lin?ker

Adjective

linker (not comparable)

1. left

Declension

Derived terms

• halblinks, links, linksdrehend, Linkshänder

Related terms

• Linke
• links

See also

• rechter