SkyfireDict

chains   (TTS Sound)

The noun chains has 1 sense

• irons, chains -- (metal shackles; for hands or legs)

The noun chain has 10 senses

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


• chain, chemical chain -- ((chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule))


• chain -- (a series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament)


• chain -- ((business) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership)


• chain -- (anything that acts as a restraint)


• chain -- (a unit of length)


• 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))


• 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")


• chain -- (a linked or connected series of objects; "a chain of daisies")


• chain, string, strand -- (a necklace made by a stringing objects together; "a string of beads"; "a strand of pearls";)

The verb chain has 2 senses

• chain -- (connect or arrange into a chain by linking)


• chain -- (fasten or secure with chains; "Chain the chairs together")