Noun
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a necklace made by a stringing objects together
"a string of beads"
"a strand of pearls"
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a linked or connected series of objects
"a chain of daisies"
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a series of hills or mountains
"the valley was between two ranges of hills"
"the plains lay just beyond the mountain range"
- mountain range - range of mountains - mountain chain - chain of mountains -
British biochemist (born in Germany) who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1906-1979)
- ernst boris chain - sir ernst boris chain -
a unit of length
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anything that acts as a restraint
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(business) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership
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a series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament
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(chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule)
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a series of things depending on each other as if linked together
"the chain of command"
"a complicated concatenation of circumstances"
Verb
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fasten or secure with chains
"Chain the chairs together"
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connect or arrange into a chain by linking