link

/lɪŋk/noun
Middle SchoolNot in standard dictionaries
1

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

2

One element of a chain or other connected series.

3

Abbreviation of hyperlink.

4

The connection between buses or systems.

5

A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.

6

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

7

An individual person or element in a system

8

Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.

9

A sausage that is not a patty.

10

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.

Sound Patterns & Rhymes

Rhymes

Words that share the same ending sound pattern

Alliteration

Words starting with the same consonant sound — used in poetry and prose to create rhythm, emphasis, and memorable phrasing (e.g. “Peter Piper picked”)

Assonance

Words sharing similar vowel sounds regardless of starting letter — creates internal melody in writing

Consonance

Words sharing similar consonant sound patterns — adds texture and cohesion to writing

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