link

link is a 4-letter English word with 24 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A torch made of tow and pitch, or the like. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 24 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A torch made of tow and pitch, or the like.
2. noun. A single ring or division of a chain.
3. noun. Hence: Anything, whether material or not, which binds together, or connects, separate things; a part of a connected series; a tie; a bond.
4. noun. Anything doubled and closed like a link; as, a link of horsehair.
5. noun. Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.
6. noun. Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (Steam Engine), 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.
7. noun. 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. Cf. Chain, n., 4.
8. noun. A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; -- applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
9. noun. Sausages; -- because linked together.
10. transitive verb. To connect or unite with a link or as with a link; to join; to attach; to unite; to couple.
11. intransitive verb. To be connected.
12. noun. a fastener that serves to join or connect

    "the walls are held together with metal links placed in the wet mortar during construction"

    Synonyms: linkup, tie

13. noun. an interconnecting circuit between two or more locations for the purpose of transmitting and receiving data
14. noun. a two-way radio communication system (usually microwave); part of a more extensive telecommunication network
15. noun. a channel for communication between groups

    "he provided a liaison with the guerrillas"

    Synonyms: contact, liaison

16. noun. (computing) an instruction that connects one part of a program or an element on a list to another program or list
17. noun. a unit of length equal to 1/100 of a chain
18. noun. the means of connection between things linked in series

    Synonyms: nexus

19. noun. a connecting shape

    Synonyms: connection, connexion

20. noun. the state of being connected

    "the connection between church and state is inescapable"

    Synonyms: connectedness, connection

21. verb. make a logical or causal connection

    "I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind"

    "colligate these facts"

    Synonyms: associate, colligate, connect, relate

22. verb. connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces

    "Can you connect the two loudspeakers?"

    "Tie the ropes together"

    Synonyms: connect, tie

23. verb. link with or as with a yoke

    "yoke the oxen together"

    Synonyms: yoke

24. verb. be or become joined or united or linked

    "The two streets connect to become a highway"

    "Our paths joined"

    Synonyms: connect, join, unite

Synonyms

linkup, tie, contact, liaison, nexus, connection, connexion, connectedness, associate, colligate, connect, relate, yoke, join, unite

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in link:

kiln

Common word forms

links, linked, linker, linking, linkable

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