Link vs. Union
Linknoun
A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
Linknoun
One element of a chain or other connected series.
Linknoun
(computing) The connection between buses or systems.
Linknoun
(mathematics) A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
Linknoun
(Sussex) a thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.
Linknoun
(figurative) an individual person or element in a system
Linknoun
Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.
Linknoun
A sausage that is not a patty.
Linknoun
(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.
Linknoun
(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.
Linknoun
(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.
Linknoun
(chemistry) A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
Linknoun
(plural) The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream.
Linknoun
(obsolete) A torch, used to light dark streets.
Linkverb
(transitive) To connect two or more things.
Linkverb
To contain a hyperlink to another page.
Linkverb
To supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.
Linkverb
To post a hyperlink to.
Linkverb
(transitive) To demonstrate a correlation between two things.
Linkverb
(compilation) To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable.
Linkverb
To skip or trip along smartly; to go quickly. en
Linknoun
A torch made of tow and pitch, or the like.
Linknoun
A single ring or division of a chain.
Linknoun
Hence: Anything, whether material or not, which binds together, or connects, separate things; a part of a connected series; a tie; a bond.
Linknoun
Anything doubled and closed like a link; as, a link of horsehair.
Linknoun
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.
Linknoun
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.
Linknoun
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.
Linknoun
A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; - applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
Linknoun
Sausages; - because linked together.
Linknoun
A hill or ridge, as a sand hill, or a wooded or turfy bank between cultivated fields, etc.
Linknoun
A winding of a river; also, the ground along such a winding; a meander; - usually in pl.
Linknoun
Sand hills with the surrounding level or undulating land, such as occur along the seashore, a river bank, etc.
Linknoun
Hence, any such piece of ground where golf is played; a golf course.
Linkverb
To connect or unite with a link or as with a link; to join; to attach; to unite; to couple.
Linkverb
To be connected.
Linknoun
the means of connection between things linked in series
Linknoun
a fastener that serves to join or link;
Linknoun
the state of being connected;
Linknoun
a connecting shape
Linknoun
a unit of length equal to 1/100 of a chain
Linknoun
(computing) an instruction that connects one part of a program or an element on a list to another program or list
Linknoun
a channel for communication between groups;
Linknoun
a two-way radio communication system (usually microwave); part of a more extensive telecommunication network
Linknoun
an interconnecting circuit between two or more locations for the purpose of transmitting and receiving data
Linkverb
make a logical or causal connection;
Linkverb
connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces;
Linkverb
be or become joined or united or linked;
Linkverb
link with or as with a yoke;
Unionnoun
(countable) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
Unionnoun
(uncountable) The state of being united or joined.
Unionnoun
(countable) That which is united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league.
Unionnoun
(countable) A trade union; a workers' union.
Unionnoun
(countable) An association of students at a university for social and/or political purposes; also in some cases a debating body.
Unionnoun
(countable) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.
Unionnoun
The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.
Unionnoun
(countable) The act or state of marriage.
Unionnoun
Sexual intercourse.
Unionnoun
A data structure that can store any of various types of item, but only one at a time.
Unionnoun
A large, high-quality pearl.
Unionnoun
(historical) An affiliation of several parishes for joint support and management of their poor; also the jointly-owned workhouse.
Unionverb
To combine sets using the union operation.
Unionnoun
The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one, or the state of being united or joined; junction; coalition; combination.
Unionnoun
Agreement and conjunction of mind, spirit, will, affections, or the like; harmony; concord.
Unionnoun
That which is united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league; as, the weavers have formed a union; trades unions have become very numerous; the United States of America are often called the Union.
Unionnoun
A textile fabric composed of two or more materials, as cotton, silk, wool, etc., woven together.
Unionnoun
A large, fine pearl.
Unionnoun
A device emblematic of union, used on a national flag or ensign, sometimes, as in the military standard of Great Britain, covering the whole field; sometimes, as in the flag of the United States, and the English naval and marine flag, occupying the upper inner corner, the rest of the flag being called the fly. Also, a flag having such a device; especially, the flag of Great Britain.
Unionnoun
A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, or the like, as the elastic pipe of a tender connecting it with the feed pipe of a locomotive engine; especially, a pipe fitting for connecting pipes, or pipes and fittings, in such a way as to facilitate disconnection.
Unionnoun
A cask suspended on trunnions, in which fermentation is carried on.
Unionnoun
an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer;
Unionnoun
the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War);
Unionnoun
the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes;
Unionnoun
the state of being joined or united or linked;
Unionnoun
the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce);
Unionnoun
healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones
Unionnoun
a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations;
Unionnoun
a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets;
Unionnoun
the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts;
Unionnoun
a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)
Unionnoun
the act of making or becoming a single unit;
Unionadjective
being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the Civil War;
Unionadjective
of trade unions;
