linker

From link +‎ -er (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Looking especially for the first uses of the software tool sense”)

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪŋkɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪŋkə/

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋkə(ɹ)

linker (plural linkers)

1. That which links.

   Coordinate term: linkee

2. (software compilation) A computer program that takes one or more objects generated by compilers and assembles them into a single executable program.
3. (genetics) A short oligonucleotide containing a recognition sequence for a restriction enzyme, used to blunt the ends of sticky DNA segments.
4. (grammar) A word or short expression that links clauses or other syntactic elements.
5. (finance, informal) A linked bond, one for which the principal is indexed to inflation.

• link editor

linker (third-person singular simple present linkers, present participle linkering, simple past and past participle linkered)

1. (genetics) To ligate a DNA segment using a linker.
   • 1994, Ray Shillito et al., "Zea mays plants regenerated from protoplasts or protoplast-derived cells", US Patent 5770450, page 52:

     38. The plasmid pRK252 Km is cut with ecoRI, blunt-ended using Klenow, and linkered with BgIII linkers (New England Biolabs).

• Kerlin, klerin, relink

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪŋkər/

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋkər

Originally feminine dative of link. Generalized from the expression ter linker hand, ter linker zijde (“on the left hand/side”).

linker (not comparable)

1. left

   Synonym: links

   Antonyms: rechter, rechts

   Er zit een vlek op je linker broekspijp.

   There’s a spot on your left trouserleg.

• In attributive position, the form linker is commoner than links, but predicatively and as an adverb only the latter is possible.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

linker

1. comparative degree of link

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪŋkər/, [ˈlɪŋ.kɐ]

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• Hyphenation: lin‧ker

linker

1. comparative degree of link
2. inflection of link:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural