n. One of the rings or separate pieces of which a chain is composed. In ornamental chain-making, any member of the chain, of whatever form, as a plaque, a bead, etc., is called a link.n. Anything doubled and closed together like a ring or division of a chain.n. Anything which serves to connect one thing or one part of a thing with another; any constituent part of a connected series.n. A division, forming the hundredth part, of the chain used in surveying and for other measurement.n. One of the divisions of a sausage made in a continuous chain.n. Any rigid movable piece connected with other pieces, generally themselves movable, by means of interlinked open ends or pivots about which it can turn.n. In a steam-engine, the link-motion.n. In zoology, specifically, an unknown hypothetical form of animal life in any evolutionary chain or series, assumed to have existed at some time and thus to have been the connecting-link between some known forms; especially, an anthropomorphic animal supposed to have been derived from some simian and to have been the immediate ancestral stock of the human race; hence, humorously, an ape or monkey taken as itself the connectinglink for which Darwinians seek. See Alalus.To unite or connect by or as if by a link or links; unite by something intervening; unite in any way; couple; join.To be or become connected; be joined in marriage; ally one's self; form a union.n. A crook or winding of a river; the ground lying along such a winding: as, the links of the Forth.n. plural A stretch of flat or slightly undulating ground on the sea-shore, often in part sandy and covered with bent-grass, furze, etc., and sometimes with a good sward, on part of it at least.n. plural The ground on which golf is played.n. A torch made of tow or hards, etc., and pitch, carried for lighting the streets, formerly common in Great Britain, and still used in London in fogs.To burn or give light.To go smartly; trip along; do anything smartly and quickly.n. In mathematics:n. A piece of a straight line joining two given points.n. A double tangent.n. In music, a connecting passage of one or more measures, intervening between two well-defined sections or phrases.To join or connect with other parts of the same or similar systems: as, in topography, to connect two isolated surveys or systems of points and geometrical lines, with one another, by joining one point in each of the two systems by a line of measured length and direction.n. plural The ground on which golf is played.
