Word Confusion: Links versus Lynx

Plural for the noun: links
Gerund: linking

Third person present verb: links
Past tense or past participle: linked
Present participle: linking

Plural: lynx, lynxes

• A social or professional connection between people or organizations
• Something that enables communication between people
• A unit in a communications system, as a radio relay station or a television booster station
• A means of contact, travel, or transport between two points or places
• [Computing] A code or instruction which connects one part of a program or an element in a list to another
• Short for hyperlink

A ring, loop, or separate pieces of which a chain is composed

• A unit of measurement of length equal to one hundredth of a surveying chain (7.92 inches)

Anything serving to connect one part or thing with another

• A bond or tie

A unit in a communications system, as a radio relay station or a television booster station

Any of a series of sausages in a chain

[Historical] A torch of pitch and tow for lighting the way in dark streets ²

Noun, plural:
Golf course ³

Verb, intransitive:
Make, form, or suggest a connection with or between ¹

• Connect or join physically
• [Computing] Create a hyperlink between web pages or hypertext documents
• To join by or as if by a link or links
• Unite (often followed by up)

Verb, transitive:
Make, form, or suggest a connection with or between ¹

• Connect or join physically
• [Computing] Create a hyperlink between web pages or hypertext documents
• To join by or as if by a link or links
• Unite (often followed by up)
• Clasp
• Intertwine

• Genus and family name are Felis Felidae and include the Eurasian lynx (F. lynx) and the Canadian lynx (F. canadensis)
• The fur of the lynx
• African lynx, a.k.a., caracal

[Astronomy; initial capital letter] An inconspicuous northern constellation between Ursa Major and Gemini ²

• [As genitive Lyncis] Used with a preceding letter or numeral to designate a star in the Lynx constellation

[Computing] A text web browser that uses a Terminal window ³

He retained strong links with the media.

Sign language interpreters represent a vital link between the deaf and hearing communities.

They set up satellite links with Tokyo and Moscow.

What we need are rail links from Newark to Baltimore to Charleston.

See if the graphics are links to the original website.

Trust me, George. Mary would prefer a necklace with gold links.

Ministers are the vital link in the chain between the civil service and Parliament.

One link of a Gunter’s chain is equal to 7.92 inches, and of an engineer’s chain to one foot.

Keep an eye on Dee. She’s a weak link.

The locket was a link with the past.

He beckoned a link boy over.

Noun, plural:
Hon, Pete and I are heading out to the links.

Only 17% of the golf courses in Scotland are true links courses, though this includes most of the historic courses (Scottish Golf History).

Verb, intransitive:
She was linked up with an artistic group.

We found three different groups, each linking with the other.

It turns out he reads my blogs and was very pleased I’d linked to his article.

The company will soon link up with a hotel chain.

Verb, transitive:
There were too many rumors that linked his name with Judith.

Foreign and domestic policy are linked too tightly to ignore the impact of one on the other.

We mapped out a network of routes linking towns and villages.

The cows are linked up to milking machines.

I’ve had problems linking my blog to other websites.

The new bridge will link the island to the mainland.

Once outside, he linked arms with her.

The British Big Cats Society says its 15-month survey indicates there is little doubt that big cats such as leopards, lynxes, and pumas are roaming Britain.

In the Adirondack mountains of New York, an attempt to reintroduce lynxes failed, with 18 of 37 mortalities attributed to road kills.

There are elves and centaurs and unicorns and mermaids and flying lynxes and all shapes of mythical things.

Jewell and Alibhai have begun using WildTrack to census tapirs in Argentina, Bengal tigers in India and Bangladesh, and Iberian lynxes in Spain and Portugal.

Fox, lynx, mink as well as shearing being dyed in strong colors dominate this season, whether it be trimmings on collar and cuffs or luxurious linings.

The clothes were made of rayon polyester and trimmed with lynx fur.

Caracals (commonly called African lynx though not actually a lynx) weigh, at adulthood, from 25 to 45 pounds and are native to the grasslands of Africa and parts of Asia.

The 17th century Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius named it the Lynx constellation because it was pretty faint, and it took the eyesight of a lynx to see it (Constellation Guide).

Other than Alpha Lyncis, the Lynx constellation does not contain any stars brighter than fourth magnitude (Constellation Guide).

Lynx releases stable releases once or twice a year as well as experimental versions.

1. Late Middle English denoting a loop; also as a verb in the sense connect physically is from the Old Norse hlekkr and is of Germanic origin and related to the German Gelenk meaning joint.
2. Early 16th century, perhaps from the medieval Latin li(n)chinus meaning wick, from the Greek lukhnos meaning light.
3. Old English hlinc meaning rising ground.

1. 1300–50, from the Middle English, which is from the Latin, which is itself from the Greek lýnx.
2. Middle English, via Latin from the Greek lunx.
3. Early 1990s, as a product of the Distributed Computing Group within Academic Computing Services of The University of Kansas.