chain

Significat (English)

Noun

1. A series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal.
2. A series of interconnected things.
3. A series of stores or businesses with the same brand name.
4. A number of atoms in a series, which combine to form a molecule.
5. A series of interconnected links of known length, used as a measuring device.
6. A long measuring tape.
7. A unit of length, exactly equal to 22 yards, 4 rods or 100 links, and approximately equal to 20.12 metres; the length of a Gunter's surveying chain; the length of a cricket pitch.
8. A totally ordered set, especially a totally ordered subset of a poset.
9. A formal sum of cells in a CW complex of a certain dimension k (in which case the formal sums are called k'''-chains); a formal sum of simplices or cubes of a certain dimension in a simplical complex or cubical complex (respectively).
10. An element of a group (or module) in a chain complex.
11. A sequence of linked house purchases, each of which is dependent on the preceding and succeeding purchase (said to be "broken" if a buyer or seller pulls out).
12. That which confines, fetters, or secures; a bond.
13. Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
14. A livery collar, a chain of office.
15. The warp threads of a web.

Verb

1. To fasten something with a chain.
2. To connect as if with a chain, due to dependence, addiction, or other feelings
3. To link multiple items together.
4. To secure someone with fetters.
5. To obstruct the mouth of a river etc with a chain.
6. To obligate.
7. To relate data items with a chain of pointers.
8. To be chained to another data item.
9. To measure a distance using a 66-foot long chain, as in land surveying.
10. To load and automatically run (a program).

Synonyms

fetter

shackle

series

string

🪢

sequence

row

necklace

bind

fasten

cable

tie

rope

🪢

manacle

range

catena

succession

line

wire

range of mountains

restrain

chain of mountains

mountain range

bond

handcuff

concatenation

chain up

tether

chains

⛓️

put in chains

link

🔗

cord

linkage

confine

connection

train

🚋

trammel

mountain chain

strand

beads

hitch

enchain

chemical chain

fetters

file

hobble

chaining

shack

shackles

concatenate

station

🚉

stream

stripe

surrounding

tail

thread

🧵

tie up

anchor chain

manacles

measuring tape

put in irons

iron chain

chainlet

engineer’s chain

tether with chains

catana

ring series

Gunter’s chain

retail chain

land chain

chain joint

heavy chain

light chain

delta circuit

deprive of one’s freedom

surveying chain

linearly ordered set

cables length

attach

link chains

band

boom

💥

border

bracelet

brooch

bushing

catenate

catenation

ch

chained

chain link

chain store

channel

chatelaine

circle

⭕

circuit

circuitry

clothesline

constraint

edge trail

edging

electric circuit

gird

gyve

imprison

irons

jet

leash

moor

mountain

⛰️

nail

needle

neighbouring

net

network

noose

order

ornament

parade

prison

queue

restraint

restrict

restriction

scheme

secure

serial

slang

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈt͡ʃeɪn/

Etimologia (English)

Inherited from anglès mitjà: cheyne

In summary

From Middle English cheyne, chaine, from Old French chaine, chaene (“chain”), from Latin catēna (“chain”), from Proto-Indo-European *kat- (“to braid, twist; hut, shed”). Doublet of catena.