{
    "term": "link",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a connection between two or more people or things",
            "sensetop": "link between A and Blink with somebody/somethinglink to somebody/something",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Police suspect there may be a link between the two murders.",
                    "contextForm": "link between A and B"
                },
                {
                    "text": "There is evidence for a strong **causal link **between exposure to sun and skin cancer."
                },
                {
                    "text": "to **establish/find a link**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "These photographs are a **direct link** with the past.",
                    "contextForm": "link with somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Many of them had no previous links to terrorism.",
                    "contextForm": "link to somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her work explores the links between violence and gender relations."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Studies haven't proven a link between sugar and hyperactivity."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The author denies the link between capitalism and fascism."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The statistics show a clear link between social class and crime."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The study suggests a strong link between workplace culture and a business's financial performance."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There is no link to an increase in cases of the disease."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This provided a key conceptual link with earlier theories."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["close", "tight", "inextricable"],
                "verb + link": ["have", "build", "create"],
                "link + verb": ["connect something", "exist"],
                "link + noun": ["road"],
                "preposition": ["link across", "link between", "link in"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a relationship between two or more people, countries or organizations",
            "sensetop": "link with somebody/somethinglink between A and B",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to **establish** trade **links** with Asia",
                    "contextForm": "link with somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Producers are **forging** direct **links** with consumers."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The department tries to maintain **close links** with industry."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Social workers **provide a** vital **link** between hospital and community.",
                    "contextForm": "link between A and B"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The agreement will strengthen the links between the two countries."
                },
                {
                    "text": "ER & C has strong links with our company."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She has severed her last links with her family."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The college is anxious to build links with local industries."
                },
                {
                    "text": "her alleged links to a violent separatist group."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The department is interested in developing closer links with industry."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Social customs provide a vital link between generations."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["close", "tight", "inextricable"],
                "verb + link": ["have", "build", "create"],
                "link + verb": ["connect something", "exist"],
                "link + noun": ["road"],
                "preposition": ["link across", "link between", "link in"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a means of travelling or communicating between two places",
            "sensetop": "link between A and Blink to somethinglink via somethingvia a link",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a high-speed **rail link**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **video link**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The canal was an important **transport link** between England and Wales.",
                    "contextForm": "link between A and B"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The driver has a radio link to base.",
                    "contextForm": "link to something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We're trying to establish a link via satellite.",
                    "contextForm": "link via something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The speech was broadcast via a **satellite link**.",
                    "contextForm": "via a link"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["audio", "video", "radio"],
                "verb + link": ["have", "establish", "lose"],
                "preposition": ["via a/​the link", "link to", "link via"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "a place in an electronic document that is connected to another electronic document or to another part of the same document",
            "sensetop": "link to something",
            "labels": "(computing)",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "You can find all the details by **clicking this link**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**Follow the links** to watch our exclusive trailer."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I've **posted a link** to the article, for those who are interested.",
                    "contextForm": "link to something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'll send you the link by email."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The program checks links to all pages on this and external sites."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You'll find some useful links on the first couple of pages."
                },
                {
                    "text": "To visit similar websites to this one, click on the links at the bottom of the page."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Phones, email and the internet"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["embedded", "hypertext", "Internet"],
                "verb + link": ["have", "add", "build"],
                "link + verb": ["lead to something", "point to something", "work"],
                "preposition": ["link to"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "each ring of a chain",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The chain was too long so I removed a few of the links."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "a chain of long thin sausages; an individual long thin sausage",
            "labels": "(all especially North American English)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "You need four Italian sausage links."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "one of the stages in a process or a line of argument",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Food production, processing and marketing are different links in the chain from farmer to consumer."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Death is the last link in the chain."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Opinion and argument"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "the point at which a system or an organization is most likely to fail",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She went straight for the one weak link in the chain of his argument."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Difficulty and failure"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/lɪŋk/",
                "audio": "li/link/link__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/lɪŋk/",
                "audio": "li/link/link__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in the sense a loop; also as a verb in the sense ‘connect physically’): from Old Norse hlekkr, of Germanic origin; related to German Gelenk ‘joint’."
}