The difference between Attach and Link
When used as verbs, attach means to fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively), whereas link means to connect two or more things.
Link is also noun with the meaning: a connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
check bellow for the other definitions of Attach and Link
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Attach as a verb (transitive):
To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
Examples:
"synonyms: connect annex affix unite Thesaurus:join"
"ant detach unfastdisengage separate Thesaurus:disconnect"
"An officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship."
"You need to attach the carabiner to your harness."
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Attach as a verb (intransitive):
To adhere; to be attached.
Examples:
"synonyms: cling stick Thesaurus:adhere"
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Attach as a verb:
To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.
Examples:
"Dower will attach."
"rfquotek Cooley"
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Attach as a verb:
To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral influence; with to.
Examples:
"attached to a friend; attaching others to us by wealth or flattery"
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Attach as a verb:
To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to.
Examples:
"to attach great importance to a particular circumstance"
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Attach as a verb (obsolete):
To take, seize, or lay hold of.
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Attach as a verb (obsolete, legal):
To arrest, seize.
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Link as a noun:
A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
Examples:
"The mayor’s assistant serves as the link to the media."
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Link as a noun:
One element of a chain or other connected series.
Examples:
"The third link of the silver chain needs to be resoldered."
"The weakest link."
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Link as a noun:
Examples:
"The link on the page points to the sports scores."
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Link as a noun (computing):
The connection between buses or systems.
Examples:
"A by-N-link is composed of N lanes."
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Link as a noun (mathematics):
A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
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Link as a noun (Sussex):
a thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.
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Link as a noun (figurative):
an individual person or element in a
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Link as a noun:
Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.
Examples:
"a link of horsehair"
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Link as a noun:
A sausage that is not a patty.
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Link as a noun (kinematics):
Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, such as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.
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Link as a noun (engineering):
Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (in steam engines) the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.
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Link as a noun (surveying):
The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in length.
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Link as a noun (chemistry):
A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
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Link as a noun (plural):
The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream.
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Link as a verb (transitive):
To connect two or more things.
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Link as a verb (intransitive, of a Web page):
To contain a hyperlink to another page.
Examples:
"My homepage links to my wife's."
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Link as a verb (transitive, Internet):
To supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.
Examples:
"Haven't you seen his Web site? I'll link you to it."
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Link as a verb (transitive, Internet):
To post a hyperlink to.
Examples:
"Stop linking those unfunny comics all the time!"
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Link as a verb (transitive):
To demonstrate a correlation between two things.
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Link as a verb (compilation):
To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable.
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Link as a noun (obsolete):
A torch, used to light dark streets.
Examples:
"rfquotek Shakespeare"
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Link as a verb (Scotland, intransitive):
To skip or trip along smartly; to go quickly.