INTERLINK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does interlink mean? 

• INTERLINK (verb)
  The verb INTERLINK has 2 senses:

1. be interwoven or interconnected

2. cause to be interconnected or interwoven

  Familiarity information: INTERLINK used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERLINK (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they interlink    ... he / she / it interlinks   
Past simple: interlinked   
Past participle: interlinked   
-ing form: interlinking   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be interwoven or interconnected

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

complect; interconnect; interlink

Context example:

The bones are interconnected via the muscle

Hypernyms (to "interlink" is one way to...):

connect; join; link; link up; unite (be or become joined or united or linked)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "interlink"):

intercommunicate (be interconnected, afford passage)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause to be interconnected or interwoven

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

interconnect; interlink

Hypernyms (to "interlink" is one way to...):

connect; link; link up; tie (connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

 Context examples 

Entrez, the Life Sciences Search Engine, integrates the scientific literature, DNA and protein sequence databases, 3D protein structure and protein domain data, population study datasets, expression data, assemblies of complete genomes, and taxonomic information into a tightly interlinked system.

(Entrez, NCI Thesaurus)