| Link: English to English |
| Link (n.) A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; -- applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction. |
| Link (n.) A single ring or division of a chain. |
| Link (n.) A torch made of tow and pitch, or the like. |
| Link (n.) 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, |
| Link (n.) 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. |
| Link (n.) Anything doubled and closed like a link; as, a link of horsehair. |
| Link (n.) Hence: Anything, whether material or not, which binds together, or connects, separate things; a part of a connected series; a tie; a bond. |
| Link (n.) Sausages; -- because linked together. |
| Link (n.) 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. |
| Link (v. i.) To be connected. |
| Link (v. t.) To connect or unite with a link or as with a link; to join; to attach; to unite; to couple. |