unlinked
unlinked is the simple past and past participle of unlink.
Meaning of unlink
Verb
unlink (third-person singular simple present unlinks, present participle unlinking, simple past and past participle unlinked)
- To decouple; to remove a link from, or separate the links of.
- To delete (a file).
- That's because the permission to unlink a file doesn't depend upon the permission bits on the file itself; it's the permission bits on the directory that contains the file that matter.2001, Tom Phoenix, Randal L. Schwartz, Learning Perl, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN, page 175
Adjective
unlinked (not comparable)
- Not linked, physically or figuratively.
- An unlinked Web page on the Internet is unlikely to be found.
Origin of unlinked
From unlink + -ed.
From un- + linked.
Questions about unlinked
- What does unlinked mean?
- Unlinked means not linked, physically or figuratively.
- What is unlinked the simple past and past participle of?
- Unlinked is the simple past and past participle of unlink.
- What part of speech is unlinked?
- Unlinked is an adjective.
Words near unlinked in the dictionary
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