free vs link

free

verb
  • To make free; set at liberty; release. 

  • To rid of something that confines or oppresses. 

  • To relinquish (previously allocated memory) to the system. 

adv
  • Without needing to pay. 

adj
  • Of a rocket or missile: not under the control of a guidance system after being launched. 

  • Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed, engrossed, or appropriated; open; said of a thing to be possessed or enjoyed. 

  • Without obligations. 

  • With no or only freedom-preserving limitations on distribution or modification. 

  • Without; not containing (what is specified); exempt; clear; liberated. 

  • Privileged or individual; the opposite of common. 

  • (of a morpheme) That can be used by itself, unattached to another morpheme. 

  • Unconstrained. 

  • Unobstructed, without blockages. 

  • Unattached or uncombined. 

  • Not imprisoned or enslaved. 

  • Unconstrained by quantifiers. 

  • Not attached; loose. 

  • Unconstrained of identifiers, not bound. 

  • Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; said of a government, institutions, etc. 

  • Unconstrained by timidity or distrust 

  • Intended for release, as opposed to a checked version. 

  • complimentary 

  • Unconstrained by relators. 

  • Obtainable without any payment. 

  • Generous; liberal. 

  • Not currently in use; not taken; unoccupied. 

noun
  • A free transfer. 

  • The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts from where the foul was committed. 

link

noun
  • One element of a chain or other connected series. 

  • 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. 

  • The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream. 

  • The connection between buses or systems. 

  • a thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills. 

  • A space comprising one or more disjoint knots. 

  • A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction. 

  • An introductory cue. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

  • Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain. 

  • A sausage that is not a patty. 

  • A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas. 

  • an individual person or element in a system 

verb
  • To meet with someone. 

  • To contain a hyperlink to another page. 

  • To supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link. 

  • To demonstrate a correlation between two things. 

  • To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable. 

  • To skip or trip along smartly; to go quickly. 

  • To connect two or more things. 

  • To post a hyperlink to. 

How often have the words free and link occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )