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link

/ˈlɪŋk/ noun B1
  1. A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas. · The mayor’s assistant serves as the link to the media.
  2. One element of a chain or other connected series. · The third link of the silver chain needs to be resoldered.· The weakest link.
  3. The connection between buses or systems. · A by-N-link is composed of N lanes.
  4. A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
  5. A thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.
  6. An individual person or element in a system. (figuratively)
  7. Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.
  8. A sausage that is not a patty.

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“Ah, yes—the so-called Porlock is a link in the chain some little way from its great attachment.
The Valley of Fear, p. 3 · C1
Porlock is not quite a sound link—between ourselves.
The Valley of Fear, p. 3 · C1
“But no chain is stronger than its weakest link.”
The Valley of Fear, p. 3 · C1
You leave out a link or two, and I can’t get over the gap.
The Valley of Fear, p. 14 · C1

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