link – English noun declension

English noun forms of link

Noun: link
Singularlink
Plurallinks

Sample Sentences

  • The mayor’s assistant serves as the link to the media.
  • The link of brotherhood, by which / One common Maker bound me to the kind. [1782–1785, William Cowper, “(please specify the page)”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC:]
  • And so by double lynkes enchaynde themselues in louers life [1573, George Gascoigne, A Hundreth Sundry Flowres:]
  • The third link of the silver chain needs to be resoldered.
  • The weakest link.
  • The link on the page points to the sports scores.
  • A by-N-link is composed of N lanes.
  • They used formerly to live in caves or huts dug into the side of a bank or "link," and lined with heath or straw. [2008, Richard John King, A Handbook for Travellers in Kent and Sussex:]
  • But know that God is the strongest link. [2010, James O. Young, My Sheep Know My Voice: anointed poetry, AuthorHouse, page 32:]
  • The fuse is the weakest link in the system. As such, the fuse is also the most valuable link in the system. [2010, William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, Jill Butler, Universal Principles of Design, RockPort, page 262:]
  • “[…] This is so that nobody can change the way every link must talk about the formula that I taught to make a real Chain of Universal Love and not a Chain of Love of a group or sect.” [2010, Stephen Fairweather, The Missing Book of Genesis, AuthorHouse, page 219:]
  • a link of horsehair [1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:]
  • 'Dame Foljambe,' said the old man, 'the march of thy tale is like the course of the Wye, seventeen miles of links and windings down a fair valley five miles long. […]' [1822, Allan Cunningham, “The King of the Peak”, in Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry, volume 1, page 222:]
  • Too much talk on a music-based station can cause listeners who tune in for the music to go elsewhere. […] 'Some people will say “your link has to be 45 seconds long” but I don't do that,' explains the programme controller of Trent FM, Dick Stone. [2002, Carole Fleming, The Radio Handbook, page 53:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English linke, lenke, from a merger of Old English hlenċe, hlenċa (“ring; chainlink”) and Old Norse *hlenkr, hlekkr (“ring; chain”); both from Proto-Germanic *hlankiz (“ring; bond; fettle; fetter”), from Proto-Germanic *hlankaz (“bendsome, flexible”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleng-, *klenk- (“to bend; twist; wind”). Used in English since the 14th century. Related to lank.
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with Low German Lenk (“link”), Danish lænke (“chain; link”), Elfdalian lekk (“link”), Icelandic hlekkur (“link”), Norwegian Bokmål lenke (“chain; link”), Norwegian Nynorsk lenke, lenkje (“chain; link”), Swedish länk (“chain; link”). See: Middle English Nouns 'linke', Old English Nouns 'hlenċe', Old Norse Nouns '*hlenkr', Icelandic Nouns 'hlekkur', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns 'lenke', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'lenke', Swedish Nouns 'länk'.

Verbs referencing "link"

Danish Nouns link, Dutch Nouns link, English Nouns lank, Finnish Nouns lenkki, Finnish Nouns linkki, Russian Nouns линк.