different between link vs association
link
- 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)
- A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
- 1573, George Gascoigne, A Hundreth Sundry Flowres
- One element of a chain or other connected series.
- Abbreviation of hyperlink.
- (computing) The connection between buses or systems.
- (mathematics) A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
- (Sussex) a thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.
- (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:
- 2010, James O. Young, My Sheep Know My Voice: anointed poetry, AuthorHouse, page 32:
- Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.
- A sausage that is not a patty.
- (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.
- (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.
- (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.
- (chemistry) A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
- (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. […] '
- 1822, Allan Cunningham, "The King of the Peak", in Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry, v. 1, p. 222.
- (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.
- 2002, Carole Fleming, The Radio Handbook (page 53)
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)
- (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.
- 1813, John Chetwode Eustace, A Tour Through Italy
- (intransitive, of a Web page) To contain a hyperlink to another page.
- (transitive, Internet) To supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.
- (transitive, Internet) To post a hyperlink to.
- (transitive) To demonstrate a correlation between two things.
- (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)
- (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)
- (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
- 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)
- link (hyperlink)
Inflection
Synonyms
- hyperlink
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l??k/
- Hyphenation: link
- Rhymes: -??k
Etymology 1
Adjective
link (comparative linker, superlative linkst)
- dangerous
- (criminal slang) sly; cunning
- (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)
- physical connection, as in a hardware cable
- (figuratively) logical connection, as in reasoning about causality
- 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)
- left
- sly; cunning
- 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)
- link, hyperlink
- Synonyms: hivatkozás, hiperhivatkozás
Declension
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Yiddish ????? (link), from German link (“left”).
Adjective
link (comparative linkebb, superlative leglinkebb)
- (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)
- (computing) link (hyperlink)
- Synonym: collegamento
Derived terms
- linkare
Lithuanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [li?k]
Preposition
l?nk
- toward (used with genitive case)
Pennsylvania German
Etymology
Compare German link.
Adjective
link
- left, left-hand
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from English link.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?ink/
Noun
link m inan
- link, hyperlink
Declension
Synonyms
- hiper??cze
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English link.
Noun
link m (plural links)
- (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)
- (computing) link (text or a graphic that can be activated to open another document)
- Synonym: enlace
Derived terms
- linquear
link From the web:
- what links amino acids together
- what links the nervous and endocrine systems
- what links together to form protein
- what links the frontline and support trenches
- what links neurons to each other
- what links seattle and bangkok
- what linked northern and southern china
- what links nucleotides together
association
English
Etymology
From Latin associ?ti?, from associ? (perhaps via French association).Morphologically associate +? -ion
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??s???i?e???n/, /??s??si?e???n/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??so??i?e???n/, /??so?si?e???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
association (countable and uncountable, plural associations)
- The act of associating.
- The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.
- (statistics) Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).
- A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.
- (object-oriented programming) Relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf.
Synonyms
- (state of being associated): connection; See also Thesaurus:relation
- ass'n (abbreviation)
Derived terms
- guilt by association
Related terms
Translations
See also
- alliance
- coalition
- league
- union
Danish
Noun
association c (singular definite associationen, plural indefinite associationer)
- association
- 2007, Drømmenes dimensioner, Gyldendal A/S (?ISBN), page 83
- Børn blokerer desuden ofte for associationer af angst for drømmeindholdet.
- Furthermore, children often block associations of anxiety for the dream content.
- Børn blokerer desuden ofte for associationer af angst for drømmeindholdet.
- 2014, Klaus Kjøller, Sprogets Vej til Sindets Fred, 2. rev. vej, nu med Dit og Dat, KJOELLER.dk (?ISBN)
- I stedet for det dagligsproglige 'tilintetgørelse', som kan rumme negative associationer af ødelæggelse og brutalitet, benytter vi på Sprogets Vej det pluskorrigerede udtryk 'ophævelse'.
- Instead of the everyday word "annihilation", which may contain negative associations of destruction and brutality, we use, on the Way of Language, the plus-corrected [?] expression "cancellation".
- I stedet for det dagligsproglige 'tilintetgørelse', som kan rumme negative associationer af ødelæggelse og brutalitet, benytter vi på Sprogets Vej det pluskorrigerede udtryk 'ophævelse'.
- 2002, Anne Ring Petersen, Storbyens billeder: fra industrialisme til informationsalder, Museum Tusculanum Press (?ISBN), page 113
- ... vil de, skriver Allouay, fortrinsvis vække associationer af urban karakter.
- ... they will, Allouay writes, predominantly arouse associations of an urban/urbane character.
- ... vil de, skriver Allouay, fortrinsvis vække associationer af urban karakter.
- 1999, Bogens verden
- ... hvert sted åbner der sig en verden af formrigdom, af mulige associationer, af historier og sammenhænge, som kan foldes ud af det banale.
- ... everywhere, a world of shape-wealth, of possible associations, of stories and connections that can be unfolded from banality opens.
- ... hvert sted åbner der sig en verden af formrigdom, af mulige associationer, af historier og sammenhænge, som kan foldes ud af det banale.
- 2007, Drømmenes dimensioner, Gyldendal A/S (?ISBN), page 83
- group of persons united for some purpose
Declension
Further reading
- “association” in Den Danske Ordbog
French
Etymology
From associer +? -tion.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.s?.sja.sj??/
- Homophone: associations
Noun
association f (plural associations)
- association, society, group
- (commerce, economics) partnership
- association (of related terms, ideas etc.), combination
- (object-oriented programming) association
Derived terms
- association libre
Descendants
- ? Romanian: asocia?ie
Further reading
- “association” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
association From the web:
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- what association publishes the cpt
- what associations offer health insurance
- what associations are learned during extinction
- what associations today are the descendants of the guild
- what association is correct
- what association is learned in classical conditioning
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