link up

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Verb	1.	link up - be or become joined or united or linked; "The two streets connect to become a highway"; "Our paths joined"; "The travelers linked up again at the airport" connect, link, unite, join syndicate - join together into a syndicate; "The banks syndicated" articulate - unite by forming a joint or joints; "the ankle bone articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle bones" complect, interconnect, interlink - be interwoven or interconnected; "The bones are interconnected via the muscle"
	2.	link up - connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces; "Can you connect the two loudspeakers?"; "Tie the ropes together"; "Link arms" connect, link, tie conjoin, join - make contact or come together; "The two roads join here" ground - connect to a ground; "ground the electrical connections for safety reasons" bring together, join - cause to become joined or linked; "join these two parts so that they fit together" attach - cause to be attached daisy-chain - connect devices on a part of a chip or circuit board in a computer tie - unite musical notes by a tie interconnect, interlink - cause to be interconnected or interwoven tee - connect with a tee; "tee two pipes" put through - connect by telephone; "the operator put a call through to Rio" hitch - connect to a vehicle: "hitch the trailer to the car" hang together, interdepend - be connected; "In my heart I can make the world hang together" bridge, bridge over - connect or reduce the distance between
	3.	link up - make a logical or causal connection; "I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind"; "colligate these facts"; "I cannot relate these events at all" associate, colligate, link, relate, tie in, connect remember - exercise, or have the power of, memory; "After the shelling, many people lost the ability to remember"; "some remember better than others" cerebrate, cogitate, think - use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments; "I've been thinking all day and getting nowhere" interrelate - place into a mutual relationship; "I cannot interrelate these two events" correlate - bring into a mutual, complementary, or reciprocal relation; "I cannot correlate these two pieces of information" identify - conceive of as united or associated; "Sex activity is closely identified with the hypothalamus" free-associate - associate freely; "Let's associate freely to bring up old memories" have in mind, think of, mean - intend to refer to; "I'm thinking of good food when I talk about France"; "Yes, I meant you when I complained about people who gossip!"

Translations

يوصِل

napojit

forbindetilslutte

anschließen

enchaîner joindre relier

összekapcsolódik

tengja viî

napojiť

bağla mak

连接起来

w>link up

vi → zusammenkommen; (people) → sich zusammentun; (facts) → übereinstimmen, zusammenpassen; (companies) → sich zusammenschließen; to link up in space → ein Kopplungsmanöver im Weltraum durchführen; how does that link up with what Freud says? → wie hängt das mit dem zusammen, was Freud sagt?

vt sep → miteinander verbinden; bits of evidence → miteinander in Verbindung bringen; spaceships → koppeln

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

link

(liŋk) noun

1. a ring of a chain. There was a worn link in the chain and it broke; an important link in the chain of the evidence.

2. anything connecting two things. His job was to act as a link between the government and the press.

verb

to connect as by a link. The new train service links the suburbs with the heart of the city.

link up to join or be joined closely or by a link: An electrician called to link up our house to the mains electricity supply (noun ˈlink-up)

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