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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

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pâr, IPA^(key): /p??(?)/
• (General American) enPR: pâr, IPA^(key): /p??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophones: pare, pear

Etymology 1

From Middle English paire, from Old French paire, from Latin paria (“equals”), neuter plural of p?r.

Noun

pair (plural pairs or (archaic or dialectal) pair)

1. Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
   1. One of the constituent items that make up a pair.
2. Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship.

3. Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plural only, except in some technical contexts)

4. A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.

5. (card games) A poker hand that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better hand.
6. (cricket) A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match.

   Synonyms: pair of spectacles, spectacles

7. (baseball, informal) A double play, two outs recorded in one play.

8. (baseball, informal) A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams

9. (rowing) A boat for two sweep rowers.
10. (slang) A pair of breasts

11. (slang) A pair of testicles

12. (Australia, politics) The exclusion of one member of a parliamentary party from a vote, if a member of the other party is absent for important personal reasons.
13. Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time.

    There were two pairs on the final vote.

14. (archaic) A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set.
15. (kinematics) In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion; named in accordance with the motion it permits, as in turning pair, sliding pair, twisting pair.

Usage notes

The usual plural of pair is pairs. This is a recent innovation; the plural pair was formerly predominant and may be found in older texts like "A Key to Joyce's Arithmetic" (compare Middle English paire, plural paire). That is, a native English speaker, back in the early 19th century, would say 20 pair of shoes, as opposed to today's 20 pairs of shoes. In colloquial or dialectal speech, forms such as 20 pair may still be found; because of their relegation to informal speech, they are now sometimes proscribed.

Synonyms

• (two objects in a group): duo, dyad, couple, brace, twosome, duplet; see also Thesaurus:duo
• (pair of breasts): See also Thesaurus:breasts

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

pair (third-person singular simple present pairs, present participle pairing, simple past and past participle paired)

1. (transitive) To group into one or more sets of two.
   • If your computer has a built-in, non-Microsoft transceiver, you can pair the device directly to the computer by using your computer’s Bluetooth software configuration program but without using the Microsoft Bluetooth transceiver.

2. (transitive) To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating.
3. (politics, slang) To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.
4. (intransitive) To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.

Derived terms

Related terms

• parity

See also

• couple

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English pairen, peiren, shortened form of apeiren, empeiren, from Old French empeirier, empoirier, from Late Latin pei?r?.

Verb

pair (third-person singular simple present pairs, present participle pairing, simple past and past participle paired)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To impair, to make worse.
   • Template:RQ:Fairy
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To become worse, to deteriorate.

Anagrams

• PIRA, RIPA, Ripa, pari-, raip

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /p??i/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /pa?i?/
• Rhymes: -i(?)

Verb

pair (first-person singular present paeixo, past participle paït)

1. to digest

   Synonym: digerir

2. to handle, to cope with

Conjugation

Further reading

• “pair” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “pair” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “pair” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “pair” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From Latin p?r (“equal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??/

Adjective

pair (feminine singular paire, masculine plural pairs, feminine plural paires)

1. (of a number) even

   Antonym: impair

Derived terms

• aller de pair
• fonction paire
• nombre pair

Related terms

• parité

Noun

pair m (plural pairs)

1. A peer, high nobleman/vassal (as in peer of the realm)

Derived terms

Antonyms

• pari m

Further reading

• “pair” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• pari, pria, ripa

Louisiana Creole French

Etymology

From French peur (“fear”), compare Haitian Creole pè.

Verb

pair

1. to be afraid

References

• Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

Middle English

Noun

pair

1. Alternative form of paire

Romanian

Etymology

From French pair.

Noun

pair m (plural pairi)

1. peer (noble)

Declension

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) pér
• (Surmiran) peir

Etymology

From Latin pirum.

Noun

pair m (plural pairs)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) pear

Related terms

• paira
• pairer

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pai?r/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *k?aryos. Cognate with Irish coire.

Noun

pair m (plural peiri or peirau)

1. cauldron, boiler
2. furnace

Derived terms

• peiran
• peiriaid

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

pair

1. (literary) third-person singular present indicative/future of peri

Mutation

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “pair”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies