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31linking — adjective connecting or joining two things. ↘Phonetics denoting a consonant that is sounded at a boundary where two vowels would otherwise be adjacent, as in law(r) and order …
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33linking r — Phonet. 1. the r sound as reintroduced into an utterance where there is an r in the spelling by speakers of an r dropping dialect when a postvocalic r they would normally drop, as in the pronunciation of far as /fah/, becomes intervocalic, as in… …
34linking verb — noun Date: 1923 a word or expression (as a form of be, become, feel, or seem) that links a subject with its predicate …
35linking verb — copula (def. 2). [1930 35] * * * …
36linking verb — noun Copula …
37linking method — Method for calculating rates of return ( rate of return) that multiplies one plus the interim rate of return. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary …
38linking verb — verb used to connect a subject and predicate complement (Grammar) …
39ˈlinking ˌverb — noun [C] linguistics a verb such as ‘be or ‘seem that connects the subject of a sentence with its COMPLEMENT (= the part of the sentence that describes the subject) …
40linking verb — link′ing verb n. gram. copula 2) • Etymology: 1930–35 …