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link (someone or something) up to (someone or something)

To create or establish a connection between one person or thing and someone or something else. In this usage, the first noun or pronoun can also come after "up." I can link up our computer to the company database over the internet. They linked me up to a machine that monitored my brain activity.

See also: link, up

link in the chain

One of the steps, stages, or points in a development, process, or series of events. This new tram line is but one link in the chain of our greater plan to update the city's public transportation system. It was the deregulation of the market that proved to be the most crucial link in the chain of the eventual economic meltdown.

link to (someone or something)

1. To have a connection with someone or something. The sudden reversal in policy seems to link to pressure put on the administration by several large lobby groups. I only found out recently that our family tree links to George Washington!

2. To connect multiple people or things physically to one another. In this usage, a noun or pronoun is used between "link" and "to." We linked each child's leg to their neighbor's with a bandana for the three-legged race. Link each paper hoop to the next in order to create a chain.

3. To find, discover, or establish a connection between multiple people or things. In this usage, a noun or pronoun is used between "link" and "to." Often used in passive constructions. There's nothing linking me to their criminal activities! Long-term use of the medication has been linked to heart failure, respiratory issues, and muscular atrophy. I can link our computer to the company database over the internet.

link together (with someone or something)

1. To have a connection with someone or something. We're sisters, so we're forever linked together! Don't you think it's dangerous that the whole economy is linked together with the financial performance of a single company?

2. To connect multiple people or things physically to one another. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "link" and "together." We linked the children's legs together using a bandana for their three-legged race. Link each paper hoop together with the next one in order to create a chain.

3. To find, discover, or establish a connection between multiple people or things. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "link" and "together." Often used in passive constructions. There's nothing linking Paul together with the murder weapon. Nothing! An outbreak of hives has now been linked together with other allergic reactions to the drug.

link up

1. To join with or connect to something. These two toys link up to create a super-sized robot. According to the map, the creek should link up with the main river about a mile from here.

2. To connect two or more things together. In this usage, noun or pronoun can be used between "link" and "up." If you link up the monitors, you can have each spreadsheet open at full size on each screen. Just link your phones up over Bluetooth and share the data wirelessly.

3. To meet with someone. I'm linking up with the teaching assistant this Tuesday to go over my test results. I'd love to pick your brain about new ideas for our next project. Let's link up sometime next week!

4. To join someone or a group to form a team, association, partnership. They should definitely link up—I think their two companies would be really well suited to each other. By linking up with the foreign distribution company, we've been able to quadruple our sales in under a year. If we linked up, we could solve this crime in no time.

5. To introduce two or more people; to join two or more people together into a team, association, or partnership. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "link" and "up." I'm going to link you up with my tax adviser—she should be able to help you with your problem. My job is to link companies up with a PR representative who fits their day-to-day needs. I've been trying to link you two up for years—I think you'd be perfect for each other!

See also: link, up

link up with (someone or something)

1. To make contact with another person. I'm going to link up with my friends after we're finished eating dinner, if that's all right. You should definitely link up with Nancy while you're in Tokyo.

2. To create or establish a connection to something else. I linked up with the company database to retrieve the documents that I need. The TV is just trying to link up with the Internet.

3. To create or establish a connection between one person or thing and someone or something else. In this usage, a noun or pronoun is used before or after "up." I can link my phone up with yours so that it sends you any photos that I take automatically. They linked me up with a machine that monitored my brain activity.

See also: link, up

missing link

1. A hypothetical extinct animal that is believed to be the evolutionary connection between man and ape. Scientists will never fully understand the evolution of man until they find the missing link.

2. Something that is significantly, noticeably absent, often because its presence would be helpful or beneficial. Participation is the missing link in your grade, so I would suggest speaking up in class going forward. I think that chlorine is the missing link in this experiment.

weak link

Someone or something considered inferior to the other parts of a group, series, or mechanism. The weak link in computer security is almost always the end user. Derek hardly ever comes to class, so I'm not surprised he was the weak link in our group project.

link someone or something up (to something)

to connect someone or something to something, usually with something that has a type of fastener or connector that constitutes a link. They promised that they would link me up to the network today. They will link up my computer to the network today.

See also: link, up

weak link (in the chain)

Fig. the weak point or person in a system or organization. Joan's hasty generalizations about the economy were definitely the weak link in her argument.

weak link

The least dependable member of a group, as in The shipping department, slow in getting out orders, is our weak link in customer service , or They're all very capable designers except for Ron, who is clearly the weak link. This expression alludes to the fragile portion of a chain, where it is most likely to break. [Mid-1800s]

link up

1. To collaborate or team up: The two minority parties linked up to oppose the ruling party. Two popular bands have linked up for a nationwide tour.

2. To introduce someone into a relationship or collaboration with others: Can you link me up with a good financial adviser? I linked them up last year and now they are partners. The convention links up buyers and sellers.

3. To join together: The two trains linked up to form one long train. This road links up with the highway in six miles.

4. To connect something with some other thing: We linked the trailer up to the truck. I linked up four extension cords and plugged the vacuum cleaner in. They linked the computers up so that they could share files.

5. To meet with someone, especially in order to do something: Let's link up next week and discuss the report. I linked up with my friends after the concert.

See also: link, up

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs.

See also:

rescue from
rescue from (someone or something)
identify with
orient
orient to
orient to (something)
spiff up
spiffed up
back into
back into (someone or something)

References in periodicals archive

However, this roll call system has shortcomings: One confidential source highly familiar with the workings of Link-11 and Link 22 told Armada that the roll call systems means that "technically there is no congestion (on a Link n network), but the net cycle turnaround (the time taken to transmit and receive by all Participating Units) is extremely long, so the tactical data refresh rate is unacceptably long and you endanger the mission." Furthermore, Link-11 is a point-to-point communications system which means that it cannot perform ad hoc networking by which a transmission can reach its intended recipient by hopping across several Participating Units acting as relays to get the transmissions to their intended recipient.

Catch-22

We denote the links constituting the BP [B.sup.k.sub.i,j] by the set S([B.sup.k.sub.i,j]).

QoS-aware approach for maximizing rerouting traffic in IP networks

The Moz index includes hundreds of billions of URLs with a "mere" trillion links. See the current counts at the bottom of the OSE page.

Link searching

Each group respectively adopts code distance and text distance as the distance measurement indexes between links to test the link block recognition of index webpages and content webpages under different parameter configurations.

A new recognition approach for logical link blocks in webpages

The above steps will help you detect unnatural links. Once these have been detected it's time to upload these links to Google webmasters and to disavow these links.

Shout Web Strategy Provides Recommendations on Protecting Your Brand from Online Risks

My experiment is fine for a start, but it's nothing compared to the potential of a wire service seeded by links from thousands of journalists using their editorial judgment to collaboratively filter and curate the Web.

A 21st century newswire--curating the Web with links: news organizations can remain vital daily destinations by supplementing original reporting with links to the best nonlocal content

* Indianapolis: 52 of 1,100 * Iowa City, Iowa: 9 of 85 * Ithaca, N.Y.: (see Binghamton) * Jackson, Miss.: 33 of 400 (story link)

Paper Cuts: Every Gannett Paper Listed Here

* Local Associations: Links are often a benefit of joining a local association such as a chamber of commerce.

Build your search-engine ranking: with the power of your franchisees behind you, you have the resources to build thousands of high-quality links in no time

Among Link Sleuth's features are a simple user interface and the ability to recheck broken links.

Xenu's Link Sleuth strives to find broken links before site visitors do

Acquisition tools and resources; government and related links; career opportunities; member forums.

Acquisition & logistics excellence: an internet listing tailored to the professional acquisition workforce

Report which links (related to specific course projects and processes) were accessed.

Student use and evaluation of an edublog

But while that's great most of the time, it's not so convenient when you want to change or break a link. This problem has given Excel links a less-than-favorable reputation, but this article will show how to overcome that problem, demonstrating that the link function deserves more respect.

Links in a blink: Excel data can collaborate with data in other workbooks

'This funding will help build on the links already established between Wales and Lesotho,' said Education Minister Jane Davidson.

Wales-Lesotho twinning comes of age: twenty-one years after it was launched, the world's first nation-to-nation twinning is moving up a gear

Clicking on any of the topic headers in the center of the homepage leads to an assemblage of resources, project information, and laboratory homepage links related to the WTSI's six main areas of study.

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

* The site links to Web pages for each of its 100 schools, with a building photograph, contact information and selected class homework assignments, though much of the content is outdated or incomplete.

Do these web sites work? Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. Learn what our online experts, Odvard Egil Dyrli and Kirk Snedeker, say is right-and wrong-with these district Web sites

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释义	links Related to links: Linx link (someone or something) up to (someone or something) To create or establish a connection between one person or thing and someone or something else. In this usage, the first noun or pronoun can also come after "up." I can link up our computer to the company database over the internet. They linked me up to a machine that monitored my brain activity. See also: link, up link in the chain One of the steps, stages, or points in a development, process, or series of events. This new tram line is but one link in the chain of our greater plan to update the city's public transportation system. It was the deregulation of the market that proved to be the most crucial link in the chain of the eventual economic meltdown. See also: chain, link link to (someone or something) 1. To have a connection with someone or something. The sudden reversal in policy seems to link to pressure put on the administration by several large lobby groups. I only found out recently that our family tree links to George Washington! 2. To connect multiple people or things physically to one another. In this usage, a noun or pronoun is used between "link" and "to." We linked each child's leg to their neighbor's with a bandana for the three-legged race. Link each paper hoop to the next in order to create a chain. 3. To find, discover, or establish a connection between multiple people or things. In this usage, a noun or pronoun is used between "link" and "to." Often used in passive constructions. There's nothing linking me to their criminal activities! Long-term use of the medication has been linked to heart failure, respiratory issues, and muscular atrophy. I can link our computer to the company database over the internet. See also: link link together (with someone or something) 1. To have a connection with someone or something. We're sisters, so we're forever linked together! Don't you think it's dangerous that the whole economy is linked together with the financial performance of a single company? 2. To connect multiple people or things physically to one another. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "link" and "together." We linked the children's legs together using a bandana for their three-legged race. Link each paper hoop together with the next one in order to create a chain. 3. To find, discover, or establish a connection between multiple people or things. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "link" and "together." Often used in passive constructions. There's nothing linking Paul together with the murder weapon. Nothing! An outbreak of hives has now been linked together with other allergic reactions to the drug. See also: link, someone, together link up 1. To join with or connect to something. These two toys link up to create a super-sized robot. According to the map, the creek should link up with the main river about a mile from here. 2. To connect two or more things together. In this usage, noun or pronoun can be used between "link" and "up." If you link up the monitors, you can have each spreadsheet open at full size on each screen. Just link your phones up over Bluetooth and share the data wirelessly. 3. To meet with someone. I'm linking up with the teaching assistant this Tuesday to go over my test results. I'd love to pick your brain about new ideas for our next project. Let's link up sometime next week! 4. To join someone or a group to form a team, association, partnership. They should definitely link up—I think their two companies would be really well suited to each other. By linking up with the foreign distribution company, we've been able to quadruple our sales in under a year. If we linked up, we could solve this crime in no time. 5. To introduce two or more people; to join two or more people together into a team, association, or partnership. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "link" and "up." I'm going to link you up with my tax adviser—she should be able to help you with your problem. My job is to link companies up with a PR representative who fits their day-to-day needs. I've been trying to link you two up for years—I think you'd be perfect for each other! See also: link, up link up with (someone or something) 1. To make contact with another person. I'm going to link up with my friends after we're finished eating dinner, if that's all right. You should definitely link up with Nancy while you're in Tokyo. 2. To create or establish a connection to something else. I linked up with the company database to retrieve the documents that I need. The TV is just trying to link up with the Internet. 3. To create or establish a connection between one person or thing and someone or something else. In this usage, a noun or pronoun is used before or after "up." I can link my phone up with yours so that it sends you any photos that I take automatically. They linked me up with a machine that monitored my brain activity. See also: link, up missing link 1. A hypothetical extinct animal that is believed to be the evolutionary connection between man and ape. Scientists will never fully understand the evolution of man until they find the missing link. 2. Something that is significantly, noticeably absent, often because its presence would be helpful or beneficial. Participation is the missing link in your grade, so I would suggest speaking up in class going forward. I think that chlorine is the missing link in this experiment. See also: link, missing weak link Someone or something considered inferior to the other parts of a group, series, or mechanism. The weak link in computer security is almost always the end user. Derek hardly ever comes to class, so I'm not surprised he was the weak link in our group project. See also: link, weak Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. link someone or something up (to something) to connect someone or something to something, usually with something that has a type of fastener or connector that constitutes a link. They promised that they would link me up to the network today. They will link up my computer to the network today. See also: link, up weak link (in the chain) Fig. the weak point or person in a system or organization. Joan's hasty generalizations about the economy were definitely the weak link in her argument. See also: link, weak McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. weak link The least dependable member of a group, as in The shipping department, slow in getting out orders, is our weak link in customer service , or They're all very capable designers except for Ron, who is clearly the weak link. This expression alludes to the fragile portion of a chain, where it is most likely to break. [Mid-1800s] See also: link, weak The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. link up v. 1. To collaborate or team up: The two minority parties linked up to oppose the ruling party. Two popular bands have linked up for a nationwide tour. 2. To introduce someone into a relationship or collaboration with others: Can you link me up with a good financial adviser? I linked them up last year and now they are partners. The convention links up buyers and sellers. 3. To join together: The two trains linked up to form one long train. This road links up with the highway in six miles. 4. To connect something with some other thing: We linked the trailer up to the truck. I linked up four extension cords and plugged the vacuum cleaner in. They linked the computers up so that they could share files. 5. To meet with someone, especially in order to do something: Let's link up next week and discuss the report. I linked up with my friends after the concert. See also: link, up The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs. See also: rescue from rescue from (someone or something) identify with orient orient to orient to (something) spiff up spiffed up back into back into (someone or something) References in periodicals archive However, this roll call system has shortcomings: One confidential source highly familiar with the workings of Link-11 and Link 22 told Armada that the roll call systems means that "technically there is no congestion (on a Link n network), but the net cycle turnaround (the time taken to transmit and receive by all Participating Units) is extremely long, so the tactical data refresh rate is unacceptably long and you endanger the mission." Furthermore, Link-11 is a point-to-point communications system which means that it cannot perform ad hoc networking by which a transmission can reach its intended recipient by hopping across several Participating Units acting as relays to get the transmissions to their intended recipient. Catch-22 We denote the links constituting the BP [B.sup.k.sub.i,j] by the set S([B.sup.k.sub.i,j]). QoS-aware approach for maximizing rerouting traffic in IP networks The Moz index includes hundreds of billions of URLs with a "mere" trillion links. See the current counts at the bottom of the OSE page. Link searching Each group respectively adopts code distance and text distance as the distance measurement indexes between links to test the link block recognition of index webpages and content webpages under different parameter configurations. A new recognition approach for logical link blocks in webpages The above steps will help you detect unnatural links. Once these have been detected it's time to upload these links to Google webmasters and to disavow these links. Shout Web Strategy Provides Recommendations on Protecting Your Brand from Online Risks My experiment is fine for a start, but it's nothing compared to the potential of a wire service seeded by links from thousands of journalists using their editorial judgment to collaboratively filter and curate the Web. A 21st century newswire--curating the Web with links: news organizations can remain vital daily destinations by supplementing original reporting with links to the best nonlocal content * Indianapolis: 52 of 1,100 * Iowa City, Iowa: 9 of 85 * Ithaca, N.Y.: (see Binghamton) * Jackson, Miss.: 33 of 400 (story link) Paper Cuts: Every Gannett Paper Listed Here * Local Associations: Links are often a benefit of joining a local association such as a chamber of commerce. Build your search-engine ranking: with the power of your franchisees behind you, you have the resources to build thousands of high-quality links in no time Among Link Sleuth's features are a simple user interface and the ability to recheck broken links. Xenu's Link Sleuth strives to find broken links before site visitors do Acquisition tools and resources; government and related links; career opportunities; member forums. Acquisition & logistics excellence: an internet listing tailored to the professional acquisition workforce Report which links (related to specific course projects and processes) were accessed. Student use and evaluation of an edublog But while that's great most of the time, it's not so convenient when you want to change or break a link. This problem has given Excel links a less-than-favorable reputation, but this article will show how to overcome that problem, demonstrating that the link function deserves more respect. Links in a blink: Excel data can collaborate with data in other workbooks 'This funding will help build on the links already established between Wales and Lesotho,' said Education Minister Jane Davidson. Wales-Lesotho twinning comes of age: twenty-one years after it was launched, the world's first nation-to-nation twinning is moving up a gear Clicking on any of the topic headers in the center of the homepage leads to an assemblage of resources, project information, and laboratory homepage links related to the WTSI's six main areas of study. Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute * The site links to Web pages for each of its 100 schools, with a building photograph, contact information and selected class homework assignments, though much of the content is outdated or incomplete. Do these web sites work? Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. Learn what our online experts, Odvard Egil Dyrli and Kirk Snedeker, say is right-and wrong-with these district Web sites
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