Definitions for chain

Definitions for (noun) chain

Main entry: chain

Definition: a series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament


Main entry: chain, strand, string

Definition: a necklace made by a stringing objects together

Usage: a string of beads; a strand of pearls;


Main entry: chain

Definition: anything that acts as a restraint


Main entry: chain

Definition: a linked or connected series of objects

Usage: a chain of daisies


Main entry: chain

Definition: (business) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership


Main entry: chain, concatenation

Definition: a series of things depending on each other as if linked together

Usage: the chain of command; a complicated concatenation of circumstances


Main entry: chain, chemical chain

Definition: (chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule)


Main entry: range, range of mountains, mountain chain, mountain range, chain, chain of mountains

Definition: a series of hills or mountains

Usage: the valley was between two ranges of hills; the plains lay just beyond the mountain range


Main entry: Sir Ernst Boris Chain, Ernst Boris Chain, Chain

Definition: British biochemist (born in Germany) who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1906-1979)


Main entry: chain

Definition: a unit of length


Definitions for (verb) chain

Main entry: chain

Definition: fasten or secure with chains

Usage: Chain the chairs together


Main entry: chain

Definition: connect or arrange into a chain by linking


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