chain
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(verb) fasten or secure with chains; "Chain the chairs together" |
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Related Words: fasten, fix, secure |
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Antonyms: unchain |
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(noun) a series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament |
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Related Words: anchor chain, chatelaine, fob, ligament, pull chain, snow chains, tire chains, watch chain, watch guard |
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(noun) a necklace made by a stringing objects together; "a string of beads" or "a strand of pearls" |
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Synonyms: strand, string |
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Related Words: necklace |
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(noun) anything that acts as a restraint |
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Related Words: constraint, restraint |
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(noun) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership |
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Related Words: apparel chain, business, business concern, business organization, concern, discount chain, restaurant chain, retail chain |
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(noun) a series of things depending on each other as if linked together: "the chain of command"; "a complicated concatenation of circumstances" |
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Synonyms: concatenation |
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Related Words: series |
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(noun) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule) |
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Synonyms: chemical chain |
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Related Words: building block, closed chain, open chain, ring, unit |
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(noun) a unit of length |
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Related Words: Gunter's chain, engineer's chain, linear unit, nautical chain |
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(noun) metal shackles; for hands or legs |
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Synonyms: chains, iron, irons |
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Related Words: bond, hamper, shackle, trammel, trammels |
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(noun) a series of hills or mountains; "the valley was between two ranges of hills"; "the plains lay just beyond the mountain range" |
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Synonyms: chain of mountains, mountain chain, mountain range, range, range of mountains |
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Related Words: Adirondack Mountains, Adirondacks, Alaska Range, Alleghenies, Allegheny Mountains, Alps, Andes, Apennines, Appalachian Mountains, Appalachians, Balkan Mountain Range, Balkan Mountains, Balkans, Berkshire Hills, Berkshires, Black Hills, Blue Ridge Mountains, Cascade Range, Cascades, Catskill Mountains, Catskills, Caucasus, Caucasus Mountains, Coast Mountains, Coast Range, Cumberland Mountains, Cumberland Plateau, Great Smoky Mountains, Himalaya Mountains, Himalayas, Hindu Kush, Hindu Kush Mountains, Karakoram, Karakoram Range, Karakorum Range, Kuenlun, Kuenlun Mountains, Kunlun, Kunlun Mountains, Mustagh, Mustagh Range, Ozark Mountains, Ozarks, Pyrenees, Rockies, Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada, Sierra Nevada Mountains, St. Elias Mountains, St. Elias Range, Teton Range, Tien Shan, Tyan Shan, Ural Mountains, Urals, formation, geological formation, geology, sierra, the Alps, the Himalaya |
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