Word Finder - chain

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A series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal.

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He wore a gold chain around the neck.

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A series of interconnected things.

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This led to an unfortunate chain of events.

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A series of stores or businesses with the same brand name.

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That chain of restaurants is expanding into our town.

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A number of atoms in a series, which combine to form a molecule.

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When examined, the molecular chain included oxygen and hydrogen.

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A series of interconnected links of known length, used as a measuring device.

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A long measuring tape.

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A unit of length equal to 22 yards. The length of a Gunter's surveying chain. The length of a cricket pitch. Equal to 20.12 metres, 4 rods, or 100 links.

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A totally ordered set, especially a totally ordered subset of a poset.

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A sequence of linked house purchases, each of which is dependent on the preceding and succeeding purchase (said to be "broken" if a buyer or seller pulls out).

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That which confines, fetters, or secures; a bond.

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the chains of habit

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(in the plural) Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.

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The warp threads of a web.

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To fasten something with a chain.

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To link multiple items together.

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To secure someone with fetters.

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To obstruct the mouth of a river etc with a chain.

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To obligate.

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To relate data items with a chain of pointers.

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To be chained to another data item.

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To measure a distance using a 66-foot long chain, as in land surveying.

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(associated with Acorn Computers) To load and automatically run (a program).

That's the real chain of events.

That was one chain of events.

He threw the chain in the truck bed.

I'll bring over a chain saw in the morning and cut it up.

It was a big, gold heart on a gold chain.

Deidre sobbed, suddenly wishing she could go back and change whatever it was she did to start this chain of events.

Malta and Gozo are the only islands of the Mediterranean which can be associated with this section, and, per contra, the mountain chain of north-west Africa belongs to Eurasia.

He jerked the chain out of his truck and stared down at her sourly.

The main chain is formed chiefly of crystalline and schistose rocks, which on the Italian side rise directly from the plain without any intervening zone of Mesozoic beds.

Later the sediments lying to the south-east of this " protaxis," or nucleus of the continent, were pushed against its edge and raised into the Appalachian chain of mountains, which, however, extends only a short distance into Canada.

I'm still not certain it'll work, but that chain of events is in motion.

I'll go get my chain.

A human figure with pearl chain and arrows in left hand, and parrot on a wooden stick in the right.

According to the view most widely accepted in France the main chain as a whole forms a fan, the folds on the eastern side leaning towards Italy and those on the western side towards France.

Many of them are restricted to some one small portion of the chain; these occur chiefly in the southern and eastern Alps.

From the above account it will at once appear that between the convex and the concave margins of the Alpine chain there is a striking difference.

Upon the inner side the Tertiary band is found only in the eastern part of the chain, while towards the west, first the Tertiary and then the Mesozoic band disappears against the modern deposits of the low land.

The structure of the zones in the Bavarian Alps seems to suggest that the chain grew outwards in successive stages, each stage being marked by the formation of a boundary fault.

The snow-mouse (Arvicola nivalis) is confined to the alpine and snow regions, and is abundant at these levels throughout the whole chain of the Alps.

A metal chain resting on the globe served to collect the charge.

The eastern part of the chain passed from South France through the Vosges, the Black Forest, Thuringia, Harz, the Fichtelgebirge, Bohemia, the Sudetes, and possibly farther east; this constitutes the " Varischen Alps " of Suess.

This section is divided by the Middengebergte or middle chain into a northern half watered by the Ombilin or upper Indragiri with its affluents, and a southern half traversed by the Batang Hari or upper Jambi.

Since PNS is a triangle of forces for the portion AP of the chain, we have wx/To=PN/NS, or yW.Xu/2T5, (14)

Separated from this chain by the valley of the Nerbudda on the west, and that of the Sone on the east, the plateau of Malwa and Baghelkhand occupies the space intervening between these valleys and the Gangetic plain.

This gap affords a passage to the winds which elsewhere are barred by the hills of the Ghat chain.

Above that there is a rich temperate flora which in the eastern chain may be regarded as forming an extension of that of northern China, gradually assuming westwards more and more of a European type.

Memans wear (z) a gold embroidered skull-cap, (2) a long kamis fastened at the neck with 3 or 4 buttons on a gold chain, (3) sadariya, i.e.

In fact the time was ripe; and, as often happens in similar circumstances, only a hint was necessary to complete the latent chain of thought.

Squirrels are confined to the eastern chain of islands from Basilan to Samar and to the Palawan-Calamianes group. In the southern islands there is a tiny species, the size of a mouse.

Luzon and the small neighbouring islands have 51 peculiar forms. A close relationship exists between the birds of the entire eastern chain of islands.

A French attack on the town was repulsed in 1404, and in 1485 the burgesses received a royal grant of 40 for walling the town and stretching a chain across the river mouth.

But remembering the wisdom of his father, he sent messengers with a chain made of silver coins, and bearing honourable proposals.

Winkler discovered that an iron chain wound round the bottle could be substituted for the hand, and Sir William Watson in England shortly afterward showed that iron filings or mercury could replace the water within the jar.

The northern half of Lerida belongs entirely to the Mediterranean or eastern section of the Pyrenees, and comprises some of the finest scenery in the whole chain, including the valleys of Aran and La Cerdana, and large tracts of forest.

Far higher and grander than the Coast Range, the Sierra is much less complicated, being indeed essentially one chain of great simplicity of structure.

Rare passes cross the chain, opening at the foot of the mountains on east and on the west high on their flanks, 7000-10,000 ft.

The South Tyne rises in the south-eastern extremity of Cumberland, below Cross Fell in the Pennine Chain, and flows north past Alston as far as the small town of Haltwhistle, where it turns east.

This chain can hardly be said to extend continuously to the extreme north of the island, but it carries on the line of elevation towards the mountains of Sarawak to the west, and those of British North Borneo to the north, of which latter Kinabalu is the most remarkable.

The middle part of this river, wider and more shallow than the lower reaches, gives rise to a region of inundation and lakes which extend as far as the northern mountain chain.

A bubo is found to consist of a chain of enlarged glands, surrounded by a mass of engorged connective tissue, coagulated blood and serum.

East of the Kizil Irmak there is no single mountain chain, but there are several short ranges with elevations sometimes exceeding 9000 ft.

The date of the foundation of these colonies cannot be fixed; but at an early period they formed a chain of settlements from Trebizond to Rhodes, and by the 8th century B.C. some of them rivalled the splendour of Tyre and Sidon.

In these latter cases the reaction may proceed in different directions; thus, with the aromatic hydrocarbons, chlorine in the cold or in the presence of a carrier substitutes in the benzene nucleus, but in the presence of sunlight or on warming, substitution takes place in the side chain.

The state has many mineral springs occurring in connexion with faults in the Appalachian chain of mountains; in 1908, 46 were reported, making the state third among the states of the United States in number of springs, and of these several have been in high medical repute.

In the case of a chain hanging freely under gravity it is usually convenient to formulate the conditions of equilibrium of a finite portion PQ.

Again, if a chain pass over a perfectly smooth peg, the catenaries in which it hangs on the two sides, though usually of different parameters, wifi have the same directrix, since by (10) y is the same for both at the peg.

In relation to the theory of suspension bridges the case where the weight of any portion of the chain varies as its horizontal projection is of interest.

It must suffice here to consider the small oscillations of a chain hanging vertically from a fixed extremity.

In the Reiileaux system of analysis of mechanisms the principle of comparative motion is generalized, and mechanisms apparently very diverse in character are shown to be founded on the same sequence of elementary combinations forming a kinematic chain.

Chains require pulleys or drums, grooved, notched and toothed, so as to fit the links of the chain.