link up

verb

1. connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces

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Can you connect the two loudspeakers?

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Tie the ropes together

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Link arms

• Syn: ↑connect, ↑link, ↑tie

• Ant: ↑disconnect (for: ↑connect)

• Derivationally related forms:

↑linkup, ↑tie (for: ↑tie), ↑link (for: ↑link), ↑linkage (for: ↑link), ↑connective (for: ↑connect), ↑connector (for: ↑connect), ↑connecter (for: ↑connect)

• Hyponyms:

↑join, ↑conjoin, ↑ground, ↑bring together, ↑attach, ↑daisy-chain, ↑tie, ↑interconnect, ↑interlink, ↑tee, ↑put through, ↑hitch, ↑hang together, ↑interdepend, ↑bridge, ↑bridge over

• Verb Frames:

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Somebody ——s something

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Something ——s something

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Somebody ——s somebody PP

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Somebody ——s something PP

2. make a logical or causal connection

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I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind

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colligate these facts

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I cannot relate these events at all

• Syn: ↑associate, ↑tie in, ↑relate, ↑link, ↑colligate, ↑connect

• Ant: ↑dissociate (for: ↑associate)

• Derivationally related forms:

↑connective (for: ↑connect), ↑connection (for: ↑connect), ↑connexion (for: ↑connect), ↑colligation (for: ↑colligate), ↑link (for: ↑link), ↑linkage (for: ↑link), ↑relation (for: ↑relate), ↑associative (for: ↑associate), ↑associable (for: ↑associate), ↑associatory (for: ↑associate), ↑association (for: ↑associate)

• Hypernyms: ↑think, ↑cogitate, ↑cerebrate

• Hyponyms:

↑remember, ↑interrelate, ↑correlate, ↑identify, ↑free-associate, ↑think of, ↑have in mind, ↑mean

• Verb Frames:

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Somebody ——s somebody with something

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Somebody ——s something with something

3. be or become joined or united or linked

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The two streets connect to become a highway

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Our paths joined

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The travelers linked up again at the airport

• Syn: ↑connect, ↑link, ↑join, ↑unite

• Derivationally related forms: ↑jointure (for: ↑join), ↑juncture (for: ↑join), ↑joining (for: ↑join), ↑link (for: ↑link), ↑linkage (for: ↑link), ↑connective (for: ↑connect)

• Hyponyms: ↑syndicate, ↑articulate, ↑complect, ↑interconnect, ↑interlink

• Verb Frames:

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Something ——s

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Somebody ——s