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The art of pretending two unrelated things were always meant to be together.
means A connection or link between two or more things, or the system of links joining them together.
from From 'link' — traced back to Middle English 'linke,' probably from Old Norse (compare Old Norse 'hlekkr,' a link in a chain), itself from a Germanic root meaning to bend or loop. 'Linkage' bolts on the Latin-derived suffix '-age,' which turns an action or thing into a whole system or process of it — same move as 'storage' from 'store' or 'package' from 'pack.' So the word literally builds a chain out of chains: one link becomes an entire apparatus of linking.
- origin
- Politics loves it when scandals share a surname
- mechanics
- Rigid bars turning rotation into motion, no electronics needed
- chemistry
- The bond holding atoms together, literally and diplomatically
- overuse
- Pundits use it to imply guilt without proving any