Definitions for Chain

• Definition
• Anagrams (54)

Chain chain

Spelling: [cheyn]

IPA: /tʃeɪn/

Chain is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in Chain (achin).

Definitions for Chain

noun

1. a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
2. Often, chains. something that binds or restrains; bond:
3. chains. shackles or fetters: bondage; servitude: Nautical. (in a sailing vessel) the area outboard at the foot of the shrouds of a mast: the customary position of the leadsman in taking soundings. tire chain.
4. a series of things connected or following in succession:
5. a range of mountains.
6. a number of similar establishments, as banks, theaters, or hotels, under one ownership or management.
7. Chemistry. two or more atoms of the same element, usually carbon, attached as in a chain. Compare ring1 (def 17).
8. Surveying, Civil Engineering. a distance-measuring device consisting of a chain of 100 links of equal length, having a total length either of 66 feet (20 meters) (Gunter's chain or surveyor's chain) or of 100 feet (30 meters) (engineer's chain) a unit of length equal to either of these. a graduated steel tape used for distance measurements. Abbreviation: ch.
9. Mathematics. totally ordered set.
10. Football. a chain 10 yards (9 meters) in length for determining whether a first down has been earned.
11. Sir Ernst Boris [urnst,, ernst] /ɜrnst,, ɛrnst/ (Show IPA), 1906–79, English biochemist, born in Germany: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1945.

Idioms

1. drag the chain, Australian Slang. to lag behind or shirk one's fair share of work.
2. in the chains, Nautical. standing outboard on the channels or in some similar place to heave the lead to take soundings.

verb (used with object)

1. to fasten or secure with a chain:
2. to confine or restrain:
3. Surveying. to measure (a distance on the ground) with a chain or tape.
4. Computers. to link (related items, as records in a file or portions of a program) together, especially so that items can be run in sequence.
5. to make (a chain stitch or series of chain stitches), as in crocheting.

verb (used without object)

1. to form or make a chain.

Origin of Chain

1250-1300; Middle English chayne Old French chaeine Latin catēna fetter; see catena

Examples for Chain

He opened the door an inch and I could see a chain between the crack.

Say what you want about Abercrombie & Fitch (A&F), the chain has done something special.

The chain and small brooch should be used if the hat pin is of much value.

Blow it,” he said, taking off the chain, “my mouth is too full of slime.

It must value men as men, not as functions of a chain of conventionalities.

It is possible that this is one link in the chain of influence which she was weaving around them.

Cars swarm dangerously around them on this two-lane road carved, literally, into the side of a chain of mountains.

You expect soldiers of all ranks to understand the need to respect the chain of command, regardless of personal feelings.

She was also crudely nicknamed “La Boule” in a reference to the ball and chain.

But the chain of death continued in the family after the burial of their mother.