noun
- What you must know in order to determine the reference of an expression.
- synonyms: intension
- An idea that is implied or suggested. .
Connotation and Link
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
(n.) The act of connoting; a making known or designating something additional; implication of something more than is asserted.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- (v.i.) To be connected.
- (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.
- (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, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.
- (n.) Sausages; -- because linked together.
- (n.) Anything doubled and closed like a link; as, a link of horsehair.
- (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.
- (n.) A torch made of tow and pitch or the like.
- (n.) A bond of affinity or a unit of valence between atoms; -- applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
- (v.t.) To connect or unite with a link or as with a link; to join; to attach; to unite; to couple.
- (n.) A single ring or division of a chain.
- (n.) Hence: Anything, whether material or not, which binds together or connects, separate things; a part of a connected series; a tie; a bond.
- (n.) A winding of a river; also, the ground along such a winding; a meander; -- usually in pl.
- (n.) Hence, any such piece of ground where golf is played.
- (n.) Sand hills with the surrounding level or undulating land, such as occur along the seashore, a river bank, etc.
- (n.) A hill or ridge, as a sand hill or a wooded or turfy bank between cultivated fields, etc.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
noun
- The means of connection between things linked in series.
- synonyms: nexus
- A fastener that serves to join or connect.
- usage: "the walls are held together with metal links placed in the wet mortar during construction"
- The state of being connected.
- usage: "the connection between church and state is inescapable"
- synonyms: connection, connectedness
- A connecting shape.
- synonyms: connection, connexion
- A unit of length equal to 1/100 of a chain.
- Computing) an instruction that connects one part of a program or an element on a list to another program or list. (
- A channel for communication between groups.
- usage: "he provided a liaison with the guerrillas"
- synonyms: liaison, contact, inter-group communication
- A two-way radio communication system (usually microwave); part of a more extensive telecommunication network.
- synonyms: radio link
- An interconnecting circuit between two or more locations for the purpose of transmitting and receiving data.
- synonyms: data link
verb
- Make a logical or causal connection.
- usage: "I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind"; "colligate these facts"; "I cannot relate these events at all"
- Connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces.
- usage: "Can you connect the two loudspeakers"; "Tie the ropes together"; "Link arms"
- Be or become joined or united or linked.
- usage: "The two streets connect to become a highway"; "Our paths joined"; "The travelers linked up again at the airport"
- Link with or as with a yoke.
- usage: "yoke the oxen together"
- synonyms: yoke
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
(DoD) A behavioral, physical, or functional relationship between nodes.
(DoD) A maritime route, other than a coastal or transit route, which links any two or more routes. See also node.
(DoD) In communications, a general term used to indicate the existence of communications facilities between two points.
(DoD) A maritime route, other than a coastal or transit route, which links any two or more routes. See also node.
(DoD) In communications, a general term used to indicate the existence of communications facilities between two points.
Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.
link is a unit of land measurement. One link equals 7. 92 inches or 0. 66 feet. There are 100 links of equal length in a surveyor's chain.