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Definition of 'chain'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) chain
a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for hauling, supporting, or confining, or as decoration.

2.  chain
chains,

3.  chain
shackles or fetters.

4.  chain
bondage; servitude:
to live one's life in chains.

5.  chain
a series of things connected or following in succession:
a chain of events.

6.  chain
a range of mountains.

7.  chain
a number of establishments under one ownership or management.

8.  chain
two or more atoms of the same element, usu. carbon, attached as in a chain.

9.  chain
a distance-measuring device used by surveyors, consisting of a chain of 100 links of equal length.

10.  chain
a unit of length equal to 100 feet (30 m) or 66 feet (20 m).

11. (v.t.) chain
to fasten or secure with a chain.

12.  chain
to confine or restrain:
His work chained him to his desk.

13.  chain
to chain-stitch.

14. (v.i.) chain
to form or make a chain.

15. (n.) Chain
Sir Ernst Boris, 1906–79, English biochemist, born in Germany: Nobel prize 1945.

Definition of 'chain'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) chain, concatenation
a series of things depending on each other as if linked together
"the chain of command"; "a complicated concatenation of circumstances"

2. (noun) chain, chemical chain
(chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule)

3. (noun) chain
a series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament

4. (noun) chain
(business) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership

5. (noun) chain
anything that acts as a restraint

6. (noun) chain
a unit of length

7. (noun) Chain, Ernst Boris Chain, Sir Ernst Boris Chain
British biochemist (born in Germany) who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1906-1979)

8. (noun) range, mountain range, range of mountains, chain, mountain chain, chain of mountains
a series of hills or mountains
"the valley was between two ranges of hills"; "the plains lay just beyond the mountain range"

9. (noun) chain
a linked or connected series of objects
"a chain of daisies"

10. (verb) chain, string, strand
a necklace made by a stringing objects together
"a string of beads"; "a strand of pearls";

11. (verb) chain
connect or arrange into a chain by linking

12. (verb) chain
fasten or secure with chains
"Chain the chairs together"

Definition of 'chain'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) chain
a rope of linked metal rings
a chain across the path; attached using a chain

2.  chain
a group of stores owned by the same company
a fast food chain

3.  chain
a line of similar objects
a mountain chain; a chain of volcanoes

4.  chain
a series of related things or events
a chain of evidence; the chain of events leading to the murder

5.  chain
in chains
(of prisoner) having hands or feet bound by chains

6. (verb) chain
to attach with a chain
He chained the animal to the fence.

Definition of 'chain'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) chain
a series of links or rings, usually of metal, connected, or fitted into one another, used for various purposes, as of support, of restraint, of ornament, of the exertion and transmission of mechanical power, etc

2. (noun) chain
that which confines, fetters, or secures, as a chain; a bond; as, the chains of habit

3. (noun) chain
a series of things linked together; or a series of things connected and following each other in succession; as, a chain of mountains; a chain of events or ideas

4. (noun) chain
an instrument which consists of links and is used in measuring land

5. (noun) chain
iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels

6. (noun) chain
the warp threads of a web

7. (verb) chain
to fasten, bind, or connect with a chain; to fasten or bind securely, as with a chain; as, to chain a bulldog

8. (verb) chain
to keep in slavery; to enslave

9. (verb) chain
to unite closely and strongly

10. (verb) chain
to measure with the chain

11. (verb) chain
to protect by drawing a chain across, as a harbor

Definitions of 'chain'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. chain
1. vi. [orig. from BASIC's CHAIN statement] To hand off execution to a child or successor without going through the OS command interpreter that invoked it. The state of the parent program is lost and there is no returning to it. Though this facility used to be common on memory-limited micros and is still widely supported for backward compatibility, the jargon usage is semi-obsolescent; in particular, most Unix programmers will think of this as an exec. Oppose the more modern subshell.

2. n. A series of linked data areas within an operating system or application. Chain rattling is the process of repeatedly running through the linked data areas searching for one which is of interest to the executing program. The implication is that there is a very large number of links on the chain.

Translation of 'chain'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a series of (especially metal) links or rings passing through one another The dog was fastened by a chain; She wore a silver chain round her neck.
Afrikaans: ketting	Arabic: سِلْسِلَه	Bulgarian: синджир
Brazilian: corrente	Czech: řetěz, řetízek	German: die Kette
Danish: kæde; lænke	Greek: αλυσίδα	Spanish: cadena
Estonian: kett	Farsi: زنجیر	Finnish: ketju
French: chaîne	Hebrew: שַׁרשֶרֶת	Hindi: जंजीर
Croatian: lanac	Hungarian: lánc	Indonesian: rantai
Icelandic: keðja	Italian: catena	Japanese: 鎖
Korean: 쇠사슬	Lithuanian: grandinė(lė)	Latvian: ķēde; ķēdīte
Malay: rantai	Dutch: ketting	Norwegian: kjede, lenke
Polish: łańcuch	Persian: زنجیر	Pashto: ځنځیر
Portuguese: corrente	Romanian: lanţ	Russian: цепь; цепочка
Slovak: reťaz, retiazka	Slovenian: veriga; verižica	Serbian: lanac
Swedish: kedja, kätting	Thai: โซ่	Turkish: zincir
Taiwanese: 鏈條	Ukrainian: ланцюг; цеп	Urdu: زنجیر
Vietnamese: dây xích	Chinese: 链条
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