Defenition of the word chain

• Defenition of the word chain

  • A series of interlocked rings or links forming a flexible length.
  • A collection of business locations (e.g. restaurants or hotels) all related to the same company.
  • A unit of length generally equal to between 60 and 100 feet.
  • To fasten or secure with chains.
  • a series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament
  • anything that acts as a restraint
  • a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership
  • a unit of length
  • fasten or secure with chains; "Chain the chairs together"
  • a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule)
  • a series of things depending on each other as if linked together: "the chain of command"; "a complicated concatenation of circumstances"
  • a necklace made by a stringing objects together; "a string of beads" or "a strand of pearls"
  • metal shackles; for hands or legs
  • a series of hills or mountains; "the valley was between two ranges of hills"; "the plains lay just beyond the mountain range"
  • a necklace made by a stringing objects together; "a string of beads"; "a strand of pearls";
  • a series of things depending on each other as if linked together; "the chain of command"; "a complicated concatenation of circumstances"
  • (chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule)
  • British biochemist (born in Germany) who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1906-1979)
  • connect or arrange into a chain by linking
  • a necklace made by a stringing objects together
  • a linked or connected series of objects
  • (business) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership
  • a series of things depending on each other as if linked together
  • a series of hills or mountains
  • fasten or secure with chains

Synonyms for the word chain

• • attach
  • bind
  • chain of mountains
  • chains
  • chemical chain
  • concatenation
  • connect
  • fasten together
  • fetter
  • franchise
  • group
  • iron
  • irons
  • lock up
  • mountain chain
  • mountain range
  • procession
  • range
  • range of mountains
  • sequence
  • series
  • shackle
  • strand
  • string
  • succession

Similar words in the chain

• • chain
  • chain's
  • chained
  • chaining
  • chainsaw

Meronymys for the word chain

• • bicycle
  • bike
  • chain printer
  • chain store
  • chain tongs
  • chain wrench
  • cycle
  • foot
  • ft
  • link
  • massif
  • molecule
  • mountain pass
  • notch
  • pace
  • pass
  • wheel
  • yard

Hyponyms for the word chain

• • Adirondack Mountains
  • Adirondacks
  • Admiralty Range
  • Alaska Range
  • Alleghenies
  • Allegheny Mountains
  • Alps
  • anchor chain
  • anchor rope
  • Andes
  • Apennines
  • Appalachian Mountains
  • Appalachians
  • apparel chain
  • Atlas Mountains
  • Australian Alps
  • Balkan Mountain Range
  • Balkan Mountains
  • Balkans
  • Berkshire Hills
  • Berkshires
  • bicycle chain
  • Black Hills
  • Blue Ridge
  • Blue Ridge Mountains
  • Cantabrian Mountains
  • Carpathian Mountains
  • Carpathians
  • Cascade Mountains
  • Cascade Range
  • Cascades
  • catena
  • Catskill Mountains
  • Catskills
  • Caucasus
  • Caucasus Mountains
  • chatelaine
  • closed chain
  • Coast Mountains
  • Coast Range
  • concatenate
  • Cumberland Mountains
  • Cumberland Plateau
  • daisy chain
  • discount chain
  • Dolomite Alps
  • Eastern Highlands
  • engineer's chain
  • fob
  • Great Dividing Range
  • Great Smoky Mountains
  • Guadalupe Mountains
  • Gunter's chain
  • High Sierra
  • Himalaya Mountains
  • Himalayas
  • Hindu Kush
  • Hindu Kush Mountains
  • Karakoram
  • Karakoram Range
  • Karakorum Range
  • Kuenlun
  • Kuenlun Mountains
  • Kunlun
  • Kunlun Mountains
  • long chain
  • long-chain molecule
  • Mesabi Range
  • Mount Carmel
  • Mustagh
  • Mustagh Range
  • Nan Ling
  • nautical chain
  • open chain
  • Ozark Mountains
  • Ozark Plateau
  • Ozarks
  • paper chain
  • pull chain
  • Pyrenees
  • restaurant chain
  • retail chain
  • Rhodope Mountains
  • ring
  • Rockies
  • Rocky Mountains
  • Sacramento Mountains
  • San Juan Mountains
  • Selkirk Mountains
  • sierra
  • Sierra Madre Occidental
  • Sierra Madre Oriental
  • Sierra Nevada
  • Sierra Nevada Mountains
  • snow chain
  • snow chains
  • St. Elias Mountains
  • St. Elias Range
  • Teton Range
  • the Alps
  • the Himalaya
  • Tien Shan
  • tire chain
  • tire chains
  • Tyan Shan
  • Ural Mountains
  • Urals
  • watch chain
  • watch guard

Hypernyms for the word chain

• • arrange
  • biochemist
  • bond
  • building block
  • business
  • business concern
  • business organisation
  • business organization
  • concern
  • constraint
  • fasten
  • fix
  • formation
  • geological formation
  • geology
  • hamper
  • ligament
  • linear measure
  • linear unit
  • necklace
  • restraint
  • secure
  • series
  • set up
  • shackle
  • trammel
  • trammels
  • unit

Antonyms for the word chain

• • unchain

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