different between link vs clamp

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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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klæmp/
• Rhymes: -æmp

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch clamp, klampe (“a clamp, hook”), from Proto-Germanic *klamp? (“clamp, clasp, cramp”). Cognate with Middle Low German klampe (“hook, clasp”), German Klampfe, Klampe (“clamp, cleat”), Norwegian klamp (“clamp”), Alemannic German Chlempi.

Noun

clamp (plural clamps)

1. A brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things together.
2. (medicine) An instrument used to temporarily shut off blood vessels, etc.
3. (Britain) A parking enforcement device used to immobilise a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.
4. A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal coking.
5. A pile of agricultural produce such as root vegetables or silage stored under a layer of earth or an airtight sheet.
6. A piece of wood (batten) across the grain of a board end to keep it flat, as in a breadboard.
7. (electronics) An electronic circuit that fixes either the positive or the negative peak excursions of a signal to a defined value by shifting its DC value.

Derived terms

• clover clamp
• nipple clamp
• sliding clamp

Translations

References

Storage clamp on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Clamper (electronics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

clamp (third-person singular simple present clamps, present participle clamping, simple past and past participle clamped)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To fasten in place or together with (or as if with) a clamp.
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21

     As we burst into the room, the Count turned his face, and the hellish look that I had heard described seemed to leap into it. His eyes flamed red with devilish passion. The great nostrils of the white aquiline nose opened wide and quivered at the edge, and the white sharp teeth, behind the full lips of the blood dripping mouth, clamped together like those of a wild beast.

2. (transitive) To hold or grip tightly.
3. (transitive) To modify (a numeric value) so it lies within a specific range.
   • 2016, Jason Zink, Matt Pettineo, Jack Hoxley, Practical Rendering and Computation with Direct3D 11 (page 253)

     After the depth range is clamped, the depth value is read from the depth stencil buffer, and the two values are compared with a selectable depth-comparison function […]

4. (Britain, obsolete, transitive) To cover (vegetables, etc.) with earth.

Derived terms

• clamp down
• unclamp

Translations

See also

• clasp
• vise, vice

Etymology 2

Imitative.

Noun

clamp (plural clamps)

1. (dated) A heavy footstep; a tramp.

Verb

clamp (third-person singular simple present clamps, present participle clamping, simple past and past participle clamped)

1. (intransitive, dated) To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump or clomp.

   • the policeman with clamping feet