a chain is only as strong as its weakest link
An organization is only as strong or powerful as its weakest person; a group of associates is only as strong as its laziest member.
link
UK /lɪŋk/ US /lɪŋk/
noun 6verb 6name 4
Definitions
noun
1
A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
The mayor’s assistant serves as the link to the media.
The link of brotherhood, by which / One common Maker bound me to the kind.
2
One element of a chain or other connected series.
The third link of the silver chain needs to be resoldered.
The weakest link.
3
Abbreviation of hyperlink.
The link on the page points to the sports scores.
4
The connection between buses or systems.
A by-N-link is composed of N lanes.
5
A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
verb
1
To connect (two or more things).
All the tribes and nations that composed it [the Roman Empire] were linked together, not only by the same laws and the same government, but by all the facilities of commodious intercourse, and of frequent communication.
2
To contain a hyperlink to another page.
My homepage links to my wife's.
3
To supply (someone) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.
Haven't you seen his website? I'll link you to it.
4
To post a hyperlink to.
Stop linking those unfunny comics all the time!
5
To demonstrate a correlation between (two things).
noun
1
A torch, used to light dark streets.
Thou hast saved me a thousand marks in links and torches
You were coming out of the Italian Opera, ma’am, in white satin and jewels, a blaze of splendour, when I hadn’t a penny to buy a link to light you.’
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