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Meaning chain meaning

What does chain mean?
Definitions in simple English

chain Noun

— A chain is a series of round pieces of material joined together to make a line. He got her a gold chain necklace for her birthday. — A series of interconnected things. This led to an unfortunate chain of events. — A chain of stores is a group of stores that all have the same name, such as McDonald's restaurants or GAP clothing stores.

chain Verb

— If you chain things together, you connect them in a line. — If you chain A to B, you connect A to B with a chain. The dog was chained to the tree.

chain

— noun (= concatenation) a series of things depending on each other as if linked together the chain of command a complicated concatenation of circumstances — noun (chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule) — noun a series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament — noun anything that acts as a restraint — noun (business) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership — noun a unit of length — noun a linked or connected series of objects a chain of daisies — noun (= string, strand) a necklace made by a stringing objects together a string of beads a strand of pearls — verb fasten or secure with chains Chain the chairs together — verb connect or arrange into a chain by linking — noun (= range, mountain range) a series of hills or mountains the valley was between two ranges of hills the plains lay just beyond the mountain range

Chain

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

Synonyms chain synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as chain?

chain English » English

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Chain English » English

Sir Ernst Boris Chain Ernst Boris Chain

Topics chain topics

What do people use chain to talk about?
Social behavior Government Government functions Police

Arrest
Work and occupation Tool

Fastening tool
Physical actions Arrange

Join, attach
Physical actions Arrange Tie

Rope, string
States Big

Long
States Big

Measure
States Time Relative time

Order, sequence

Conjugation chain conjugation

How do you conjugate chain?

chain · verb

Examples chain examples

How do I use chain in a sentence?

Simple sentences

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.
We have a post in the middle of our yard that we chain our dog to.
A mountain chain protects the valley from the northern winds.
Human beings are at the top of the food chain.
The large chain store created a new branch.
The dog should be on a chain.
You had better chain up the dog so that he won't bite.
She put the chain on the door and opened it a crack.
For example, if a chain-smoking teacher cautions a pupil for smoking, that warning is self-contradictory.
A chain fails at its weakest link.
He's a chain smoker.
If you pull too hard, the chain will break.
Even I started small. Today, the largest trade chain in Austria belongs to me.
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
The chain of crimes are thought to have been committed by the same man.
George put a chain on the dog.
The probability of this chain of events is one in two million flights - about once every two months at current levels of air traffic.
The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.
The world's tropical rainforests are critical links in the ecological chain of life on the planet.
A chain is made up of many links.

Movie subtitles

The repeated chain of hatred.
Someone must break this chain asunder.
The right donor came in to trigger the domino chain. It is our lucky break.
A chain hotel with vaguely French decor, and Italian food is being served tapas-style while a Filipino girl is marrying a Jewish guy, all with a lightly Arabian nights-style wedding.
A chain hotel with French decor and Italian food served tapas-style while a Filipino girl marries a Jewish guy in a lightly Arabian nights-style wedding.
I'm sor. it's a. it's a bridesmaid text chain.
Valerie's boiling kettles and we've formed a human chain.
First, let me say I understand the chain of command.
And that chain spells repression to the evil. Remorse to the good.
My chain?
Ya seen my chain?
What about my broken chain?
It was Mr. Wynant's watch chain.
Then he destroyed all of Wynant's clothes, with the exception of his watch chain.
If my ball and chain ever talked to me.
And he left Wynant's watch chain in her hand.
But our hero had just one weak link in his chain.
With the chain of evidence complete.
This is the last link in a perfect chain of evidence.
You were wearing a thin dress with miles of ruffles a large straw hat, an embroidered shawl, a single bracelet and heavy, gold chain and, of course, the camellias at your waist.
Whose anchor chain is that a-rattling like it's full of rust and roaches?
Case, compared to the life I lead the last man in a chain gang thoroughly enjoys himself.
Do you like my chain?
In thinking of all sorts of things, a sunset, an old song, a cameo on a chain.
You ought to put it on a little chain and hook it on the bag.
The right donor came in to trigger the domino chain.
And that chain spells repression to the evil.
Don't pull 'em all out! - Ya seen my chain?
But even the smallest link is the bearer of the whole chain, and thus responsible to the whole that was before him.
Suppose we could break that chain, separate those two selves free the good in man, and let it go to its higher destiny and segregate the bad.

News and current affairs

Meanwhile, the local population has remained impoverished and beset by diseases caused by unsafe air, poisoned drinking water, and pollution in the food chain.
For example, a boost is expected from Japan's reconstruction and supply-chain resumption.
Jobs are created directly in the organization providing the network and indirectly in the supply chain.
All sides realize that failure to achieve this would most likely result in a nuclear chain reaction with Japan, South Korea, and perhaps even Taiwan embarking on their own nuclear weapons development programs.
It will, one hopes, provide a detailed blueprint for the development of large-scale transactions-intensive industries such as wholesale and retail trade, domestic transport and supply-chain logistics, health care, and leisure and hospitality.
Governments, companies, supply-chain managers, corporate-citizenship strategists, NGOs, and others should commit to reducing their carbon footprints and to leveraging their resources to contribute to sustainable urbanization.
That, it seems, is what has happened somewhere in the American chain of command.
Individual accountability would somehow break the chain of ethnic identity and communal vengeance.
It is a painful procedure carried out in unsafe ways by old women who are seeking to initiate girls into womanhood, and, more concretely, into a life that will be an unending chain of physical pain and social marginalization.
Within that chain Balkan terrorism remains a small but vital link, one which has continued to flourish right under the eyes of NATO and the UN.
The international forces in Kosovo are strong enough to cut the Balkan link in the global terrorist chain. If the will is sufficient, that is.
And, in many cases, no supply chain is in place.
The result is a broken supply chain.
Just as individual innovators must challenge conventional wisdom, companies must replace the established approach to the innovation supply chain with one that more closely resembles how they create and maintain a manufacturing supply chain.
They have chain saws and trucks.
If real estate prices were to fall dramatically, a chain reaction could occur, taking down big and small investors alike, and over time causing wide suffering to ordinary Africans.
In Zambia, for example, Sylva Banda ignited a craze for authentic traditional meals two decades ago with a chain of popular restaurants.
A human chain was formed, with participants wearing white tops.
In other words, a China-centric Asian supply chain has made a big bet on the grand European experiment - a bet that now appears to be backfiring.
Rebalancing is the only way out for China and its partners in the Asian supply chain.
Rather than adopting the Western model of motivating every link in the supply chain to adhere to specified quality and safety standards, the government continues to rely on top-down policies.
Many companies may survive, but only by moving to different parts of the global economy or up the value-added chain domestically: up or out.
Nevertheless, the recent price frenzy extends to a significant number of living artists, led by the American Jeff Koons and the German Gerhard Richter, and extending well down the food chain.
To maintain its export-oriented production base, output must move up the value-added chain, toward more sophisticated products.
In addition, the formation of a China-Japan-South Korea FTA would most likely trigger a chain-reaction.
But, as British Prime Minister David Cameron has now demonstrated, the European chain is most likely to break not at its weakest link, but at its most irrational.
So far, China has looked to external markets so that exporters can achieve the economies of scale needed to improve quality and move up the value chain.
We also need an internationally coordinated strategy for prosecuting war criminals at the top and further down the chain of command - individual countries pressing charges, as Italy and France have done.

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