Link vs. Contrast — What's the Difference?

One of the rings or loops forming a chain.

To set in opposition in order to show or emphasize differences

A unit in a connected series of units

To show differences when compared

A unit in a transportation or communications system.

(Linguistics) To evince a difference that can distinguish meaning

A connecting element; a tie or bond

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

An association; a relationship

The state of being contrasted

A causal, parallel, or reciprocal relationship; a correlation

A difference, especially a strong dissimilarity, between entities or objects compared

A cufflink.

One thing that is strikingly dissimilar to another

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

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

A rod or lever transmitting motion in a machine.

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

(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

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

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

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

To put together physically, as with links

(uncountable) The degree of this difference.

To connect, relate, or associate

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

To make or have a link to (another webpage or electronic document)

(countable) A difference between two objects, people or concepts.

To make a link in (a webpage or electronic document)

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

To be or become joined together physically

Antithesis.

To be or become connected, related, or associated

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

To make or have a link to a webpage or electronic document

(intransitive) To form a contrast.

To follow a link in a webpage or electronic document

To stand in opposition; to exhibit difference, unlikeness, or opposition of qualities.

A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.

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.

One element of a chain or other connected series.

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.

Abbreviation of hyperlink

The act of contrasting, or the state of being contrasted; comparison by contrariety of qualities.

(computing) The connection between buses or systems.

Opposition or dissimilitude of things or qualities; unlikeness, esp. as shown by juxtaposition or comparison.

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

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

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

The opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared;

(figurative) an individual person or element in a system

The act of distinguishing by comparing differences

Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.

A conceptual separation or demarcation;

A sausage that is not a patty.

The perceptual effect of the juxtaposition of very different colors

(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.

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)

(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.

Put in opposition to show or emphasize differences;

(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.

To show differences when compared; be different;

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

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

(broadcasting) An introductory cue.

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

(transitive) To connect two or more things.

To contain a hyperlink to another page.

To supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.

To post a hyperlink to.

(transitive) To demonstrate a correlation between two things.

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

To meet with someone.

To skip or trip along smartly; to go quickly.

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

A single ring or division of a chain.

Hence: Anything, whether material or not, which binds together, or connects, separate things; a part of a connected series; a tie; a bond.

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

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.

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.

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

Sausages; - because linked together.

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

A winding of a river; also, the ground along such a winding; a meander; - usually in pl.

Sand hills with the surrounding level or undulating land, such as occur along the seashore, a river bank, etc.

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

To connect or unite with a link or as with a link; to join; to attach; to unite; to couple.

To be connected.

The means of connection between things linked in series

A fastener that serves to join or link;

The state of being connected;

A connecting shape

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

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

A channel for communication between groups;

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

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

Make a logical or causal connection;

Connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces;

Be or become joined or united or linked;

Link with or as with a yoke;