chain
chayn
- n a series of things depending on each other as if linked together
the chain of command - n (chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule)
- n a series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament
- n (business) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership
- n anything that acts as a restraint
- n a unit of length
- n British biochemist (born in Germany) who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1906-1979)
- n a series of hills or mountains
- n a linked or connected series of objects
a chain of daisies - n a necklace made by a stringing objects together;
- v connect or arrange into a chain by linking
- v fasten or secure with chains
- Branding has been a large part of the Swedish chain's success what urban dweller today, whether in Atlanta or Kuala Lumpur, doesn't recognize that bright blue warehouse .
- Georgia had come to take Robert Elliott Burns back to one of its notorious chain gangs.
- It was building seven more stores in six cities, stretching the chain from Manhattan to the Pacific Coast.