different between identify vs link

English

Etymology

From French identifier, from Medieval Latin identicus + Latin faci?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a??d?n.t?.fa?/, /??d?n.t?.fa?/
• Hyphenation: iden?ti?fy

Verb

identify (third-person singular simple present identifies, present participle identifying, simple past and past participle identified)

1. (transitive) To establish the identity of someone or something.
2. (transitive) To disclose the identity of someone.

3. (transitive, biology) To establish the taxonomic classification of an organism.
4. (transitive) To equate or make the same; to unite or combine into one.
   • 1809, David Ramsay, History of South Carolina

     Every precaution is taken to identify the interests of the people and of the rulers.

   • 18 February, 1780, Edmund Burke, Speech on Economical Reform

     Let us identify, let us incorporate ourselves with the people.

5. (reflexive) To have a strong affinity with; to feel oneself to be modelled on or connected to.
   • 1999, Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Oxford 2008, p. 117:

     The dream is given a new interpretation if in her dream she means not herself but her friend, if she has put herself in the place of her friend, or, as we may say, she has identified [transl. identifiziert] herself with her. (Der Traum erhält eine neue Deutung, wenn sie im Traum nicht sich, sondern die Freundin meint, wenn sie sich an die Stelle der Freundin gesetzt oder, wie wir sagen können, sich mit ihr identifiziert hat.)

   • 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 29

     Cash endures because his most well-known songs—“I Walk the Line” and “Ring of Fire” among them—weave deeply personal narratives with which listeners of all stripes can effortlessly identify.

6. (intransitive) To associate oneself with some group.
7. (intransitive) To claim an identity; to describe oneself as a member of a group; to assert the use of a particular term to describe oneself.

Synonyms

• to ID

Related terms

• identic
• identical
• identification
• identifier
• identifyee
• identity
• identify with

Translations

Further reading

• identify in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• identify in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• identify at OneLook Dictionary Search

For Wiktionary's links, see Wiktionary:Links

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??k/
• Rhymes: -??k

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.

   • 1573, George Gascoigne, A Hundreth Sundry Flowres

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
   • 2010, James O. Young, My Sheep Know My Voice: anointed poetry, AuthorHouse, page 32:

   • 2010, William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, Jill Butler, Universal Principles of Design, RockPort, page 262:

   • 2010, Stephen Fairweather, The Missing Book of Genesis, AuthorHouse, page 219:

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. (in the plural) The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream.
    • 1822, Allan Cunningham, "The King of the Peak", in Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry, v. 1, p. 222.

      '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. […] '

15. (broadcasting) An introductory cue.
    • 2002, Carole Fleming, The Radio Handbook (page 53)

      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.

Synonyms

• (connection between things): connection; See also Thesaurus:link

Holonyms

• (element of a connected series): chain

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• link farm

Translations

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.
   • 1813, John Chetwode Eustace, A Tour Through Italy

     All the tribes and nations that composed it [the Roman Empire] were linked together, not only by the same laws and the same government, but by all the facilities of commodious intercourse, and of frequent communication.

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.

Synonyms

• (to connect two or more things): affix, attach, join, put together; see also Thesaurus:join

Derived terms

• link in
• link out
• link up

Translations

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.
   • You were coming out of the Italian Opera, ma’am, in white satin and jewels, a blaze of splendour, when I hadn’t a penny to buy a link to light you.’

Derived terms

• linkboy
• linkman

Translations

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?)

Translations

See also

• Malvern Link

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Anagrams

• kiln

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l??k]
• Rhymes: -??k

Noun

link m

1. link, hyperlink

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English link (since 1995).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lenk/, [le???]

Noun

link n (singular definite linket, plural indefinite link or links)

1. link (hyperlink)

Inflection

Synonyms

• hyperlink

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??k/
• Hyphenation: link
• Rhymes: -??k

Etymology 1

Adjective

link (comparative linker, superlative linkst)

1. dangerous
2. (criminal slang) sly; cunning
3. (slang) jolly, nice

Inflection

Derived terms

• linkerd
• linkmiegel

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English link, only since late 20th century.

Noun

link m (plural links, diminutive linkje n)

1. physical connection, as in a hardware cable
2. (figuratively) logical connection, as in reasoning about causality
3. hyperlink

Synonyms

• (physical connection): verbinding
• (logical connection): verband
• (hyperlink): koppeling, verwijzing

Derived terms

• linken

References

• M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

German

Etymology

From Middle High German linc, from Old High German *link; compare Old High German linka (“the left hand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??k/

Adjective

link (comparative linker, superlative am linksten)

1. left
2. sly; cunning
3. dangerous

Declension

Further reading

• “link” in Duden online

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?li?k]
• Rhymes: -i?k

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English link.

Noun

link (plural linkek)

1. link, hyperlink

   Synonyms: hivatkozás, hiperhivatkozás

Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Yiddish ????? (link), from German link (“left”).

Adjective

link (comparative linkebb, superlative leglinkebb)

1. (colloquial) flighty, fickle, fishy, shifty, sleazy, phoney (unreliable, irresponsible, often dishonest)

   Synonyms: könnyelm?, léha, komolytalan, megbízhatatlan, szélhámos

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• (flighty, fickle, sleazy): link in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English link.

Noun

link m (invariable)

1. (computing) link (hyperlink)

   Synonym: collegamento

Derived terms

• linkare

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [li?k]

Preposition

l?nk

1. toward (used with genitive case)

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German link.

Adjective

link

1. left, left-hand

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English link.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?ink/

Noun

link m inan

1. link, hyperlink

Declension

Synonyms

• hiper??cze

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English link.

Noun

link m (plural links)

1. (computing) link (text or a graphic that can be activated to open another document)

   Synonyms: linque, hiperligação, ligação

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English link.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?link/, [?l??k]

Noun

link m (plural links)

1. (computing) link (text or a graphic that can be activated to open another document)

   Synonym: enlace

Derived terms

• linquear