linked

[ lingkt ]

/ lɪŋkt /

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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 link¹.

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Origin of linked

First recorded in 1400–50 for literal sense; late Middle English; see link¹, -ed² for adjective senses; see link¹, -ed¹ for verb sense

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link, linkage, linkage editor, linkage group, linkboy, linked, linked list, linked rhyme, linked verse, linker, linking r

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The al Qaeda-linked gunmen shot back, but only managed to injure one officer before they were taken out.
France Kills Charlie Hebdo Murderers|Nico Hines|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Disordered eating is also linked to higher rates of depression and anxiety, both in the present and in the future.
How Skinny Is Too Skinny? Israel Bans ‘Underweight’ Models|Carrie Arnold|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
But most likely it was linked to the way priests identify with the poor in the face of government and criminal abuses.
Mexico’s Priests Are Marked for Murder|Jason McGahan|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Apart from the video, the Saraya Al-Khorasani group has made no official declaration that it is linked to Taghavi.
What an Iranian Funeral Tells Us About the Wars in Iraq|IranWire|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Was there something linked to something a little more universal as far as experiences are concerned?
Patton Oswalt on Fighting Conservatives With Satire|William O’Connor|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
At the head of the column marched the Emperor with one arm linked to Lannes and the other to Duroc.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison
Phobetora may have been altered into Pastora: Icelonpastora (the two names linked together) would give Eclympasteyre.'
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems|Geoffrey Chaucer
Step by step in the earlier years of the century the ties which linked them with the English Church were broken.
The English Church in the Eighteenth Century|Charles J. Abbey and John H. Overton
But at a period more piously illiterate, things of this shadowy nature were linked very closely to objects of a material kind.
A Cursory History of Swearing|Julian Sharman
He loved to trace her name linked with his own, and then to obliterate it again, in case anyone would see it.
The Underworld|James C. Welsh

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