linked

American

[lingkt] / lɪŋkt /

adjective

joined together; connected.

The five linked rings on the Olympic flag are said to represent the continents of Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe, and Oceania.
With your bank card you can access all your linked accounts from an ATM.
closely associated or correlated.

The research deals with the linked issues of sedentary work and obesity.
provided with or reached by means of a hyperlink.

You can register online by clicking on the linked seminar title.
Links on our website should not be interpreted as an endorsement of the linked sites.
made up of links.

The photo shows refugees waiting behind a linked fence.
Genetics. (of genes) exhibiting linkage, with the effect that the traits determined by the genes are inherited together as a unit.

verb

the simple past tense and past participle of link.

Other Word Forms

well-linked

adjective

Etymology

Origin of linked

First recorded in 1400–50 for literal sense; late Middle English; link ¹, -ed ² for adjective senses; link ¹, -ed ¹ for verb sense

Explanation

To be linked is to be connected as if by links in a chain. If you walk arm and arm with a friend, you may appear linked. Linked, as an adjective, describes things that are connected either physically or mentally. Linked train cars are attached to one another. Two ideas that follow one another in a logical chain can also said to be linked — swimming and getting wet are inexorably linked.

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Kate Nicholls, chief executive of UK Hospitality, said the rise in unemployment was "directly linked to changes in employment taxes, costs and regulations".

From BBC • May 19, 2026

Scribner: 384 pages, $30 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

"The deaths we are reporting are all the deaths we have identified in the community, without necessarily saying that they are all linked to Ebola," he added.

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

After examining the data, the researchers identified common biological effects linked to grape consumption.

From Science Daily • May 18, 2026

For Morgan, this genetic linkage could only mean one thing: genes had to be physically linked to each other.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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