Connection vs. Link: Know the Difference
By Shumaila Saeed || Updated on December 25, 2023
Connection refers to a relationship or bond between people, places, or things, while link usually means a physical or conceptual connection between two points.
Key Differences
Connection often implies a deeper relationship or bond, possibly emotional or functional. Link suggests a joining or connecting element, often more mechanical or structural.
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In technology, a connection refers to an established communication path. A link in digital terms usually refers to a hyperlink or a connector between data points.
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Connection can imply an emotional tie or a sense of belonging. Link is more neutral, indicating a functional or logical connection without emotional connotations.
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Connection can be used broadly in various contexts, including social, emotional, and technical. Link is more specific, often used in technical, physical, or logical contexts.
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Connection can imply a strong or enduring relationship or bond. Link suggests a joining element which may be temporary or part of a larger chain.
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Comparison Chart
Definition
A relationship or bond between entities
A connecting element between two points
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Emotional Implication
Often has emotional connotations
Typically neutral or functional
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Implication of Strength
Can imply a strong or enduring bond
Often a part of a sequence or chain
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Connection and Link Definitions
Connection
A relationship or association between things or people.
She felt a deep connection with her ancestral homeland.
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Link
A connecting element in a chain or series.
Each link in the chain was forged from strong steel.
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Connection
The point at which two things are connected.
The connection between the pipes was leaking.
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Link
A hyperlink in digital documents connecting to other documents.
Click on this link to access the online article.
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Connection
An emotional or spiritual bond.
Their friendship had a profound emotional connection.
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Link
A component that connects two parts in machinery.
The mechanical link was crucial for the machine's operation.
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Connection
A means of communication or transport between places.
They missed their flight connection in Chicago.
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Link
A unit in a connected series of units
Links of sausage.
One link in a molecular chain.
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Connection
One that connects; a link
Made a connection between the two pipes.
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Link
A connecting element; a tie or bond
Grandparents, our link with the past.
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Connection
An association or relationship
An obvious connection between the two crimes.
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Link
An association; a relationship
The Alumnae Association is my link to the school's present administration.
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Connection
The logical or intelligible ordering of words or ideas; coherence.
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Link
A causal, parallel, or reciprocal relationship; a correlation
Researchers have detected a link between smoking and heart disease.
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Connection
Reference or relation to something else; context
In this connection, the agreement can be seen as a step toward peace.
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Connection
A person, especially one of influence or importance, with whom one is associated, as by kinship or common interests
Used her connections to land a job.
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Link
A unit of length used in surveying, equal to 0.01 chain, 7.92 inches, or about 20.12 centimeters.
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Connection
A conveyance or scheduled run providing continuing service between means of transportation
Missed my connection in Miami.
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Connection
A physical link, such as by wire or fiber-optic cable, between two or more points in a telecommunications system
Established a connection to the internet.
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Link
(Computers)A graphical item or segment of text in a webpage or other electronic document that, when clicked, causes another webpage or section of the same webpage to be displayed
That newspaper's homepage includes links to numerous government resources. Also called hotlink, hyperlink.
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Connection
A means or channel of communication
Couldn't hear due to the bad phone connection.
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Link
To put together physically, as with links
Linked the rings to form a chain.
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Link
To make or have a link to (another webpage or electronic document)
The blog links important news stories from across the web.
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Connection
The point at which two or more things are connected.
The connection between overeating and obesity
My headache has no connection with me going out last night.
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Link
To make a link in (a webpage or electronic document)
The teacher linked the class website to an online map.
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Connection
A feeling of understanding and ease of communication between two or more people.
As we were the only people in the room to laugh at the joke, I felt a connection between us.
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Link
To be or become joined together physically
The molecules linked to form a polymer.
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Connection
An established communications or transportation link.
Computers linked by a network connection
I was talking to him, but there was lightning and we lost the connection.
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Link
To be or become connected, related, or associated
Their business has linked up with ours.
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Connection
(transport) A transfer from one transportation vehicle to another in scheduled transportation service
The bus was late so he missed his connection at Penn Station and had to wait six hours for the next train.
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Link
To make or have a link to a webpage or electronic document
The shocking news story was linked to by many blogs. The article linked to photos of the damage.
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Link
To follow a link in a webpage or electronic document
With a click of the mouse, I linked to the museum's website.
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Connection
An individual who is related to oneself, through either family or business.
I have some connections in Lancashire.
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Link
A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
The mayor’s assistant serves as the link to the media.
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Connection
(mathematics) A set of sets that contains the empty set, all one-element sets for any element that is included in any of the sets, and the union of any group of sets that are elements where the intersections of those sets is non-empty.
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Link
One element of a chain or other connected series.
The third link of the silver chain needs to be resoldered.
The weakest link.
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Link
Abbreviation of hyperlink
The link on the page points to the sports scores.
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Connection
The description for a Methodist denomination as a whole, as opposed to its constituent churches, circuits, districts and conferences.
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Link
(computing) The connection between buses or systems.
A by-N-link is composed of N lanes.
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Link
(Sussex) a thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.
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Connection
The act of connecting, or the state of being connected; the act or process of bringing two things into contact; junction; union; as, the connection between church and state is inescapable; the connection of pipes of different diameters requires an adapter.
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Connection
Any relationship between things or events; association; alliance; as, a causal connection between interest rates and stock prices.
He [Algazel] denied the possibility of a known connection between cause and effect.
The eternal and inseparable connection between virtue and happiness.
Any sort of connection which is perceived or imagined between two or more things.
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Connection
A relation; esp. a person connected with another by marriage rather than by blood; - used in a loose and indefinite, and sometimes a comprehensive, sense.
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Link
(kinematics) 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.
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Connection
The persons or things that are connected; as, a business connection; the Methodist connection.
Men elevated by powerful connection.
At the head of a strong parliamentary connection.
Whose names, forces, connections, and characters were perfectly known to him.
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Link
(engineering) 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.
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Link
(surveying) 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.
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Connection
Usually plural) an acquaintance or acquaintances who are influential or in a position of power and to whom you are connected in some way (as by family or friendship); as, he has powerful connections.
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Link
(chemistry) A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
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Connection
A communications channel; as, my cell phone had a bad connection.
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Link
(in the plural) The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream.
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Connection
A vehicle in which one may continue a journey after debarking from another vehicle; the departing vehicle of a connection{9}; as, my connection leaves four hours after my arrival; I missed my connection.
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The scheduled arrival of one vehicle and departure of a second, sufficiently close in time and place to allow the departing vehicle serve as a means of continuing a journey begun or continued in the first vehicle; as, we can get a connection at Newark to continue on to Paris; - most commonly used of airplanes, trains, and buses arriving and departing at the same terminal.
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Connection
The transfer of a passenger from one vehicle to another to continue a journey; as, the connection was made in Copenhagen; - most commonly of scheduled transportation on common carriers.
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Connection
A vendor who can supply desired materials at a favorable price, or under conditions when other sources are unavailable; as, to get a bargain from one's connection in the jewelry trade; to have connections for the purchase of marijuana; - often used in the pl..
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Link
To contain a hyperlink to another page.
My homepage links to my wife's.
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Connection
The process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination.
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Link
To supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.
Haven't you seen his Web site? I'll link you to it.
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Connection
A relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it);
There was a connection between eating that pickle and having that nightmare
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Link
To post a hyperlink to.
Stop linking those unfunny comics all the time!
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Connection
The state of being connected;
The connection between church and state is inescapable
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Connection
An instrumentality that connects;
He soldered the connection
He didn't have the right connector between the amplifier and the speakers
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Link
(compilation) To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable.
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Connection
(usually plural) a person who is influential and to whom you are connected in some way (as by family or friendship);
He has powerful connections
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Connection
The process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination;
Conditioning is a form of learning by association
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Connection
Shifting from one form of transportation to another;
The plane was late and he missed his connection in Atlanta
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Link
Hence: Anything, whether material or not, which binds together, or connects, separate things; a part of a connected series; a tie; a bond.
The link of brotherhood, by whichOne common Maker bound me to the kind.
And so by double links enchained themselves in lover's life.
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Connection
The act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication);
The joining of hands around the table
There was a connection via the internet
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Connection
A link to a network or system, as in technology.
The Wi-Fi connection was strong in the café.
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Link
Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.
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Link
Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (Steam Engine), 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.
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Link
A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; - applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
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Link
A hill or ridge, as a sand hill, or a wooded or turfy bank between cultivated fields, etc.
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Link
A winding of a river; also, the ground along such a winding; a meander; - usually in pl.
The windings or "links" of the Forth above and below Stirling are extremely tortuous.
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Link
Sand hills with the surrounding level or undulating land, such as occur along the seashore, a river bank, etc.
Golf may be played on any park or common, but its original home is the "links" or common land which is found by the seashore, where the short close tuft, the sandy subsoil, and the many natural obstacles in the shape of bents, whins, sand holes, and banks, supply the conditions which are essential to the proper pursuit of the game.
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Link
To connect or unite with a link or as with a link; to join; to attach; to unite; to couple.
All the tribes and nations that composed it [the Roman Empire] were linked together, not only by the same laws and the same government, but by all the facilities of commodious intercourse, and of frequent communication.
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Link
A fastener that serves to join or link;
The walls are held together with metal links placed in the wet mortar during construction
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Link
The state of being connected;
The connection between church and state is inescapable
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Link
(computing) an instruction that connects one part of a program or an element on a list to another program or list
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Link
A channel for communication between groups;
He provided a liaison with the guerrillas
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Link
A two-way radio communication system (usually microwave); part of a more extensive telecommunication network
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Link
An interconnecting circuit between two or more locations for the purpose of transmitting and receiving data
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Link
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
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Link
Connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces;
Can you connect the two loudspeakers?
Tie the ropes together
Link arms
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Link
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
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Link
A relationship or connection between two or more things.
Researchers found a link between diet and health.
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Link
Something that helps to explain or clarify a connection.
The detective uncovered a crucial link in the case.
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Repeatedly Asked Queries
Are connections important in networking?
Yes, in networking, connections are crucial for communication and data exchange.
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Can a connection imply a power or data transfer?
Yes, especially in technical or electronic contexts.
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Can "link" be used in social relationships?
It can, but usually to denote a functional or causal relationship rather than an emotional one.
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Is a connection always physical?
No, connections can be emotional, spiritual, or digital, not just physical.
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Is a link part of a larger system?
Often, links are components within a larger system or network.
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Can connections exist in transportation?
Yes, connections are common in transport systems, like connecting flights.
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Can a link have an emotional aspect?
Typically, "link" is used in a more functional context and less for emotional aspects.
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Is a link physical in machinery?
In machinery, a link is a physical component connecting two parts.
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Are all links clickable in digital contexts?
In digital terms, most links are clickable, leading to other digital destinations.
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Can emotional bonds be described as connections?
Yes, emotional bonds are often described as connections.
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Are links always part of a chain?
Not always literally, but links generally imply a connection within a sequence or network.
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Are links used in data analysis?
Yes, links connect data points or information in analysis.
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Is "link" used in chain metaphors?
Yes, "link" is often used metaphorically to describe a part of a sequence or process.
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Can a connection refer to a personal relationship?
Yes, it can refer to personal or professional relationships.
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Do links facilitate communication?
Yes, especially in digital contexts, links facilitate information sharing.
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Can "connection" mean compatibility?
Yes, in relationships, connection can imply compatibility or a sense of understanding.
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Are links important in websites?
Yes, links are crucial in navigating and connecting content on websites.
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Can a connection be a point of access?
Yes, like an internet connection or a transportation hub.
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Can a connection be broken or lost?
Yes, connections can be disrupted or severed.
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