link vs yoke

link

verb
  • To connect two or more things. 

  • 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 post a hyperlink to. 

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 

yoke

verb
  • To bring (two or more people or things) into a close relationship (often one that is undesired); to connect, to link, to unite. 

  • To join (several draught animals) together with a yoke; also, to fasten a yoke (on one or more draught animals) to pull a cart, plough, etc.; or to attach (a cart, plough, etc.) to a draught animal. 

  • To put (one's arm or arms) around someone's neck, waist, etc.; also, to surround (someone's neck, waist, etc.) with one's arms. 

  • To put (something) around someone's neck like a yoke; also, to surround (someone's neck) with something. 

  • To place a collar on the neck of (a conquered person or prisoner) to restrain movement. 

  • To place a frame on the neck of (an animal such as a cow, pig, or goose) to prevent passage through a fence or other barrier. 

  • To be or become connected, linked, or united in a relationship; to have dealings with. 

noun
  • Well-developed muscles of the neck and shoulders. 

  • A Y-shaped stand used to support a blowpipe or punty while reheating in the glory hole. 

  • From sense 1.3.1: something which oppresses or restrains a person; a burden. 

  • A miscellaneous object; a gadget. 

  • A pill of a psychoactive drug. 

  • A collar placed on the neck of a conquered person or prisoner to restrain movement. 

  • A pole carried on the neck and shoulders of a person, used for carrying a pair of buckets, etc., one at each end of the pole; a carrying pole. 

  • A chap, a fellow. 

  • A similar device used as a game controller. 

  • Any of various devices with crosspieces used to control an aircraft; specifically, the control column. 

  • Originally, a metal piece connecting the poles of a magnet or electromagnet; later, a part of magnetic circuit (such as in a generator or motor) not surrounded by windings (“wires wound around the cores of electrical transformers”). 

  • The electromagnetic coil that deflects the electron beam in a cathode ray tube. 

  • A pair of draught animals, especially oxen, yoked together to pull something. 

  • An amount of work done with draught animals, lasting about half a day; (by extension) an amount or shift of any work. 

  • A frame placed on the neck of an animal such as a cow, pig, or goose to prevent passage through a fence or other barrier. 

  • A fitting placed across the head of the rudder with a line attached at each end by which a boat may be steered; in modern use it is primarily found in sailing canoes and kayaks. 

  • A bar or frame by which two oxen or other draught animals are joined at their necks enabling them to pull a cart, plough, etc.; (by extension) a device attached to a single draught animal for the same purpose. 

  • The part of an item of clothing which fits around the shoulders or the hips from which the rest of the garment hangs, and which is often distinguished by having a double thickness of material, or decorative flourishes. 

  • A frame or convex crosspiece from which a bell is hung. 

  • Any of various linking or supporting objects that resembles a yoke (sense 1.1); a crosspiece, a curved bar, etc. 

  • Chiefly in pass under the yoke: a raised yoke (sense 1.1), or a symbolic yoke formed from two spears installed upright in the ground with another spear connecting their tops, under which a defeated army was made to march as a sign of subjugation. 

  • A carriage, a horse and cart; (by extension, generally) a car or other vehicle. 

  • From sense 1.1: a bond of love, especially marriage; also, a bond of friendship or partnership; an obligation or task borne by two or more people. 

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