Difference between Link and Yoke

What is the difference between Link and Yoke?

Link as a verb is to connect two or more things. while Yoke as a verb is to link or to join.

Link

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To connect two or more things. To contain a hyperlink to another page. To skip or trip along smartly.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A connection between places, persons, events, or things. One element of a chain. The connection between busses or systems. Shortened form of hyperlink, especially one implemented in HTML. A space comprising one or more disjoint knots. a thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills. A torch, used to light dark streets.

Example sentence: Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

Yoke

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To link or to join.To unite, to connect.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A bar or frame of wood by which two oxen are joined at the heads or necks for working together.A burden; something which represses or restrains a person.The part of a shirt that stretches over the shoulders, usually made out of a doubled piece of fabric. Or, a pair of fabric panels on trousers (especially jeans) or a skirt, across the back of the garment below the waistband.Well-developed muscles of the neck and shoulders.The column-mounted control wheel of an aircraft.The electro-magnetic coil that deflects the electron beam in a CRT (Cathode Ray Tube).A fitting placed across the head of the rudder with a line attached at each end by which a boat may be steered. In modern use it is primarily found in sailing canoes and kayaks.An undefined object, a gadget.Frame around the neck, and related senses.

Example sentence: Let's start with the euro. What on earth were we thinking? How could anyone with the faintest grasp of economics have believed it was anything other than sheer insanity to yoke together diverse national economies such as Greece, Ireland, Germany and Finland under a single exchange rate and a single interest rate?

We hope you now know whether to use Link or Yoke in your sentence.

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