linked, ppl. a.
(ˈlɪŋkt)
Also 5 lynket, 6 ylincked, 6–7 lincked.
[f. link v.1 + -ed1.]
a. Connected by or as by links; joined, coupled, associated. † Also, made or fashioned with links. † linked line advb. phr., in a continued line.
| a 1450 Fysshynge w. Angle (1883) 8 Make þe yarde mete vn to the hole of the seyd stafe yn to þe halfe stafe lynket lyngh. 1561 T. Hoby tr. Castiglione's Courtyer ii. L ij, By and by were vices by that lincked contrarietie necessarily accompanied with them. 1590 Spenser F.Q. ii. vii. 46 She held a great gold chaine ylincked well. 1632 Milton L'Allegro 140 With many a winding bout Of lincked sweetnes long drawn out. 1667 ― P.L. i. 328 His swift pursuers..with linked Thunderbolts Transfix us to the bottom of this Gulfe. 179. Burns Bonie Peg, Wi' linked hands, we took the sands Adown yon winding river. 1816 Coleridge Lay Serm. 29 Notions, linked arguments [etc.] ..influence only the comparatively few. 1821 Shelley Prometh. Unb. iii. iii. 136 The dark linked ivy tangling wild. 1825 Scott Talism. i, His limbs..fitted to wear his linked hauberk, with as much ease as if the meshes had been formed of cobwebs. 1877 Black Green Past. xxii. (1878) 180 What trouble..could enter into these linked lives? 1966 Punch 5 Oct. 506/2 Tiny terrace houses are now considered acceptable, at {pstlg}12,000 to {pstlg}20,000 a time, because they are called ‘Town’ or ‘Linked’ housing. 1970 P. Laurie Scotland Yard v. 123 Some traffic-light systems, like the linked set in Oxford Street, are extremely complicated. |
b. Mil. Since 1872 used of two infantry battalions (or regiments) which are coupled together to form a regimental district (see also quot. 1872–6).
| 1872 Ld. E. Cecil in Hansard Parl. Debates 3rd Ser. CCIX. 1343 The linked regiments seemed in some instances rather ill-assorted unions. 1872–6 Voyle & Stevenson Milit. Dict. (ed. 3) 232 These regiments are termed linked, and in the case of one of the regiments going or being on foreign service requiring men to make up its numbers, soldiers are drafted from the regiment remaining at home. 1892 Daily News 12 Apr. 6/1 The line battalion in England, which has a linked battalion abroad, is unfit in every way to go into the field. |
c. Of industries: allied to and dependent on one another.
| 1942 S. Florence in H. B. Newbold Industry & Rural Life ii. 43 Certain industries may be linked to other industries..and all the linked industries would have to be dispersed together... An instance of such a complex of linked industries is found in Birmingham. 1961 Estall & Buchanan Industr. Activity & Econ. Geogr. v. 108 ‘Linked’ or related industries often require similar types of labour skills... A further advantage is the easy interchange of materials and products between the linked establishments. 1961 E. A. Powdrill Vocab. Land Planning iv. 77 They [sc. factories] must be..near some other industry providing supplies or markets (i.e., ‘linked’). |
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Add: 1. d. Genetics. Of genes: occurring on the same chromosome. Of genetic characters or factors: associated with linked genes. Cf. linkage n. b. See also sex-linked a., cross-linked ppl. a. s.v. cross- B.
| 1912 Biol. Bull. XXIII. 174 Two factors that have been found to be linked are here described. These are the yellow factor in the absence of which the flies are black, and a factor..in the absence of which the fly is wingless. 1919 Jrnl. Genetics VIII. 299 (title) The combination of linkage values, and the calculation of distances between the loci of linked factors. 1955 Virology I. 190 (title) Transduction of linked genetic characters of the host by bacteriophage P1. 1973 J. Bronowski Ascent of Man xii. 386 You could not test for eight different characters without getting two of the genes lying on the same chromosome, and therefore being at least partially linked. 1989 B. Alberts et al. Molecular Biol. Cell (ed. 2) xviii. 1041 Two linked clusters of genes..together comprise the major histocompatibility complex. |
2. Special collocations: linked list Computing, an ordered set of data elements, each of which contains a pointer or link to its successor (and sometimes its predecessor); cf. chain n. 5 i.
| 1971 I. H. Gould IFIP Guide Concepts & Terms Data Processing 29 *Linked list, a list in which each element contains one pointer to its successor, and none to other elements of the list. 1985 Practical Computing June 118/3 The chain or linked list is a common data structure used to provide pathways through a data set. |