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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

linking en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈlɪŋkɪŋ/ (UK, US)
  • (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Serving to connect other things together.
    • Conjunctions frequently function as linking words in a sentence.

linking en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈlɪŋkɪŋ/ (UK, US)
  • (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

  1. Linkage.
    • […] I will assume that multiple linkings of tones to a single tone-bearing unit come about only by language-specific rules. 1986, Douglas Pulleyblank, Tone in Lexical Phonology, page 11:

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linking en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ˈlɪŋkɪŋ/ (UK, US)
  • (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of link
    form of link
    • The yard manager is linking the sections of the train together.

Deriveds

borderlinking · linking verb · nonlinking · linking vowel · multilinking · linking element · deep linking · linking r · linking consonant · linking number · hotlinking