n.
    - communication or cooperation between people or organizations.
 - a sexual relationship, especially one that is secret.
 - the binding or thickening agent of a sauce.
 - Phonetics  the sounding of a consonant that is normally silent at the end of a word, because the next word begins with a vowel.
 
 
  Etymology
  C17 (as a cookery term): from Fr., from lier ‘to bind’.