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1. Make a logical or causal connection
   "I cannot link these events at all";
   - associate, tie in, relate, colligate, link up, connect
    
2. Join together or make a link between two or more pieces
   "Link arms"; "Can you link up the two loudspeakers?";
   - connect, tie, link up
    
3. Be or become joined or united or linked
   "The travellers linked up again at the airport";
   - connect, link up, join, unite
    
4. (animal husbandry) Join with or as if with a yoke
   "link the oxen together";
   - yoke
    
5. Add a web link to piece of text or other item in an electronic document
   - hyperlink, hotlink

1. The means of connection between things linked in series
   - nexus
    
2. A fastener that serves to join or connect
   "the walls are held together with metal links placed in the wet mortar during construction";
   - linkup, tie, tie-in
    
3. The state of being connected
   "the link between church and state is inescapable";
   - connection, connectedness
    
4. A connecting shape
   - connection, connexion [Brit]
    
5. A channel for communication between groups
   "he provided a link with the guerrillas";
   - liaison, contact, inter-group communication
    
6. A two-way radio communication system (usually microwave); part of a more extensive telecommunication network
   - radio link
    
7. An interconnecting circuit between two or more locations for the purpose of transmitting and receiving data
   - data link
    
8. A link from a hypertext file to another location or file; typically activated by clicking on a highlighted word or icon at a particular location on the screen
   - hyperlink, weblink, hotlink
    
9. (computing) an instruction that connects one part of a program or an element on a list to another program or list
    
10. A unit of length equal to 1/100 of a chain

Derived forms: links, linking, linked

Type of: attach, cerebrate, channel, circuit, cogitate, command, communication channel, communication system, electric circuit, electrical circuit, fastener, fastening, fixing, form, holdfast, instruction, line, linear measure, linear unit, linkage, program line, shape, statement, think, unification, union

Antonym: disconnect

Part of: chain

Encyclopedia: Link, Richard