linker

See also: Linker

English

Etymology

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”)

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪŋkə(ɹ)

Noun

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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.

Synonyms

• link editor

Derived terms

• linker DNA
• polylinker

Translations

computer program that assembles objects

Czech: sestavovací program m Esperanto: bindilo Finnish: linkkeri (fi), linkkeriohjelma French: éditeur de liens (fr) Hungarian: szerkesztő (hu) Japanese: リンカ (rinka) Korean: 링커 (ringkeo) Polish: konsolidator m, linker (pl) m Russian: компоно́вщик (ru) m (komponóvščik) Swedish: länkare (sv) c

short oligonucleotide

Czech: linker m German: Linker (de) m Japanese: リンカ (rinka) Korean: 링커 (ringkeo)

Verb

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).

Anagrams

• Kerlin, klerin, relink

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪŋkər/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪŋkər

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

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.

Usage notes

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

Declension

Declension of linker
uninflected	linker
inflected	linker
comparative	—
		positive
predicative/adverbial		—
indefinite	m./f. sing.	linker
	n. sing.	linker
	plural	linker
definite		linker
partitive		—

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

linker

1. comparative degree of link

German

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪŋkər/, [ˈlɪŋ.kɐ]

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: lin‧ker

Adjective

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