Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A golf course.
- n. Scots Relatively flat or undulating sandy turf-covered ground usually along a seashore.
Wiktionary
- n. A golf course, especially one situated on dunes by the sea.
- n. Plural form of link.
- v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of link.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A tract of ground laid out for the game of golf; a golfing green.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a golf course that is built on sandy ground near a shore
Etymologies
- See link. (Wiktionary)
- From Middle English link, ridge of land, hill, from Old English hlinc, ridge. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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“The title links to the edition of the book I have, and which the page numbers refer to.”
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“If the title links somewhere it's not obvious enough.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘links’.
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LIT - Ulysses - key words and phrases
vanish, number one, archangel, commodious, dominie, rubble, glisten, morose, spindle, ventilation, Blessed, christian and 503 more...
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
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SPOR - Olympic glossary
weightlift, orbitale, figure skate, speed skate, synchronizer, equestrian sport, bobsleigh, starting block, diesis, ligne, piste, water ski and 521 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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golf related words
everything golf
airshot, albatross, backswing, baff, baffy, birdie, birdieing, bisque, blaster, bogey, brassy, brassie and 102 more...
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English words of Scots origin
If it's not ...
blackmail, blatant, caddie, caddy, clan, convene, cosy, firth, glamour, gloaming, golf, glengarry and 15 more...
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Computers changed everything
Words that were well established before they gained special use in computing systems.
server, protocol, interface, bug, spam, virus, mouse, program, hack, chip, drive, window and 61 more...
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Library Reference Desk Words
computer, reference, desk, phone, im, chat, e-mail, catalog, citation, style, transfer, number and 133 more...
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Words For Novel (Part 3)
fibers, gypsy, polymer, schism, syphilitic garden..., holocaust, scrutinant, contemplate, aftermath, consequence, deadlock, impasse and 154 more...
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junestag's Words
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Turning and Twisting Tours
words in the nature of double spirals
swift, swerve, swirl, swivel, swarm, swag, swank, swoop, swinge, swarf, spire, esparto and 361 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for links.
knitandpurl "The word comes from Old English and refers to a coastal topography behind a beach, a somewhat dunal and undulating landscape, untillable, under bushes of prickly gorse, scattered heather, and a thin turf of marram and other grasses. Scotland is necklaced by these essentially treeless linkslands, brought up from the deep by the crustal rebounding of a region once depressed by glacial ice, links about as vulnerable to sea surges as Los Angeles is to earthquakes, common grazings good for little else but the invention of public games, where marine whirlwinds could blow out the turf and create ancestral bunkers—for example, Turnberry, Muirfield, Dornoch, Crail, Carnoustie, Prestwick, Royal Troon."
"Linksland and Bottle" by John McPhee, in The New Yorker, September 6, 2010, p 50 Sep 8, 2010