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Link vs. Contrast — What's the Difference?

Link vs. Contrast — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Link and Contrast

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Link

One of the rings or loops forming a chain.

Contrast

To set in opposition in order to show or emphasize differences
An essay that contrasts city and country life.
Contrasted this computer with inferior models.

Link

A unit in a connected series of units
Links of sausage.
One link in a molecular chain.

Contrast

To show differences when compared
Siblings who contrast sharply in interests and abilities.
A color that contrasted clearly with the dark background.

Link

A unit in a transportation or communications system.
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Contrast

(Linguistics) To evince a difference that can distinguish meaning
Voiced and voiceless stops contrast in English but not in Cree.

Link

A connecting element; a tie or bond
Grandparents, our link with the past.

Contrast

The act of contrasting; a setting off of dissimilar entities or objects.

Link

An association; a relationship
The Alumnae Association is my link to the school's present administration.

Contrast

The state of being contrasted
Red berries standing in vivid contrast against the snow.

Link

A causal, parallel, or reciprocal relationship; a correlation
Researchers have detected a link between smoking and heart disease.

Contrast

A difference, especially a strong dissimilarity, between entities or objects compared
The contrast between Northern and Southern speech patterns.

Link

A cufflink.

Contrast

One thing that is strikingly dissimilar to another
My new school was a welcome contrast to the one before.

Link

A unit of length used in surveying, equal to 0.01 chain, 7.92 inches, or about 20.12 centimeters.

Contrast

The use of opposing elements, such as colors, forms, or lines, in proximity to produce an intensified effect in a work of art.

Link

A rod or lever transmitting motion in a machine.

Contrast

The difference in brightness between the light and dark areas of a picture, such as a photograph or video image.

Link

(Computers)A graphical item or segment of text in a webpage or other electronic document that, when clicked, causes another webpage or section of the same webpage to be displayed
That newspaper's homepage includes links to numerous government resources. Also called hotlink, hyperlink.

Contrast

(Linguistics) A difference between units, especially one that distinguishes meaning.

Link

A torch formerly used for lighting one's way in the streets.

Contrast

(countable) A difference in lightness, brightness and/or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable.

Link

To put together physically, as with links
Linked the rings to form a chain.

Contrast

(uncountable) The degree of this difference.
The red and the orange don't have much contrast between them — I can hardly tell them apart.

Link

To connect, relate, or associate
Linked the suspect to the crime.

Contrast

(countable) A control on a television, etc, that adjusts the amount of contrast in the images being displayed.

Link

To make or have a link to (another webpage or electronic document)
The blog links important news stories from across the web.

Contrast

(countable) A difference between two objects, people or concepts.
Israel is a country of many contrasts.

Link

To make a link in (a webpage or electronic document)
The teacher linked the class website to an online map.

Contrast

(countable) Something that is opposite of or strikingly different from something else.

Link

To be or become joined together physically
The molecules linked to form a polymer.

Contrast

Antithesis.

Link

To be or become connected, related, or associated
Their business has linked up with ours.

Contrast

(transitive) To set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between.

Link

To make or have a link to a webpage or electronic document
The shocking news story was linked to by many blogs. The article linked to photos of the damage.

Contrast

(intransitive) To form a contrast.
Foreground and background strongly contrast.

Link

To follow a link in a webpage or electronic document
With a click of the mouse, I linked to the museum's website.

Contrast

To stand in opposition; to exhibit difference, unlikeness, or opposition of qualities.
The joints which divide the sandstone contrast finely with the divisional planes which separate the basalt into pillars.

Link

A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
The mayor’s assistant serves as the link to the media.

Contrast

To set in opposition, or over against, in order to show the differences between, or the comparative excellences and defects of; to compare by difference or contrariety of qualities; as, to contrast the present with the past.

Link

One element of a chain or other connected series.
The third link of the silver chain needs to be resoldered.
The weakest link.

Contrast

To give greater effect to, as to a figure or other object, by putting it in some relation of opposition to another figure or object.
The figures of the groups must not be all on side . . . but must contrast each other by their several position.

Link

Abbreviation of hyperlink
The link on the page points to the sports scores.

Contrast

The act of contrasting, or the state of being contrasted; comparison by contrariety of qualities.
Place the prospect of the soulIn sober contrast with reality.

Link

(computing) The connection between buses or systems.
A by-N-link is composed of N lanes.

Contrast

Opposition or dissimilitude of things or qualities; unlikeness, esp. as shown by juxtaposition or comparison.
The contrasts and resemblances of the seasons.

Link

(mathematics) A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.

Contrast

The opposition of varied forms, colors, etc., which by such juxtaposition more vividly express each other's peculiarities.

Link

(Sussex) a thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.

Contrast

The opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared;
In contrast to
By contrast

Link

(figurative) an individual person or element in a system

Contrast

The act of distinguishing by comparing differences

Link

Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.

Contrast

A conceptual separation or demarcation;
There is a narrow line between sanity and insanity

Link

A sausage that is not a patty.

Contrast

The perceptual effect of the juxtaposition of very different colors

Link

(kinematics) Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, such as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.

Contrast

The range of optical density and tone on a photographic negative or print (or the extent to which adjacent areas on a television screen differ in brightness)

Link

(engineering) Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (in steam engines) the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.

Contrast

Put in opposition to show or emphasize differences;
The middle school teacher contrasted her best student's work with that of her weakest student

Link

(surveying) The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in length.

Contrast

To show differences when compared; be different;
The students contrast considerably in their artistic abilities

Link

(chemistry) A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.

Link

(in the plural) The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream.

Link

(broadcasting) An introductory cue.

Link

(obsolete) A torch, used to light dark streets.

Link

(transitive) To connect two or more things.

Link

To contain a hyperlink to another page.
My homepage links to my wife's.

Link

To supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.
Haven't you seen his Web site? I'll link you to it.

Link

To post a hyperlink to.
Stop linking those unfunny comics all the time!

Link

(transitive) To demonstrate a correlation between two things.

Link

(compilation) To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable.

Link

To meet with someone.

Link

To skip or trip along smartly; to go quickly.

Link

A torch made of tow and pitch, or the like.

Link

A single ring or division of a chain.

Link

Hence: Anything, whether material or not, which binds together, or connects, separate things; a part of a connected series; a tie; a bond.
The link of brotherhood, by whichOne common Maker bound me to the kind.
And so by double links enchained themselves in lover's life.

Link

Anything doubled and closed like a link; as, a link of horsehair.

Link

Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.

Link

Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (Steam Engine), the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.

Link

A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; - applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.

Link

Sausages; - because linked together.

Link

A hill or ridge, as a sand hill, or a wooded or turfy bank between cultivated fields, etc.

Link

A winding of a river; also, the ground along such a winding; a meander; - usually in pl.
The windings or "links" of the Forth above and below Stirling are extremely tortuous.

Link

Sand hills with the surrounding level or undulating land, such as occur along the seashore, a river bank, etc.
Golf may be played on any park or common, but its original home is the "links" or common land which is found by the seashore, where the short close tuft, the sandy subsoil, and the many natural obstacles in the shape of bents, whins, sand holes, and banks, supply the conditions which are essential to the proper pursuit of the game.

Link

Hence, any such piece of ground where golf is played; a golf course.

Link

To connect or unite with a link or as with a link; to join; to attach; to unite; to couple.
All the tribes and nations that composed it [the Roman Empire] were linked together, not only by the same laws and the same government, but by all the facilities of commodious intercourse, and of frequent communication.

Link

To be connected.
No one generation could link with the other.

Link

The means of connection between things linked in series

Link

A fastener that serves to join or link;
The walls are held together with metal links placed in the wet mortar during construction

Link

The state of being connected;
The connection between church and state is inescapable

Link

A connecting shape

Link

A unit of length equal to 1/100 of a chain

Link

(computing) an instruction that connects one part of a program or an element on a list to another program or list

Link

A channel for communication between groups;
He provided a liaison with the guerrillas

Link

A two-way radio communication system (usually microwave); part of a more extensive telecommunication network

Link

An interconnecting circuit between two or more locations for the purpose of transmitting and receiving data

Link

Make a logical or causal connection;
I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind
Colligate these facts
I cannot relate these events at all

Link

Connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces;
Can you connect the two loudspeakers?
Tie the ropes together
Link arms

Link

Be or become joined or united or linked;
The two streets connect to become a highway
Our paths joined
The travelers linked up again at the airport

Link

Link with or as with a yoke;
Yoke the oxen together

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