Dictionary Entry
chain
chain is a 5-letter English word with 23 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A series of links or rings, usually of metal, connected, or fitted into one another, used for various purposes, as of support, of restraint, of ornament, of the exertion and transmission of mechanical power, etc. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 23 senses
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- 1noun
A series of links or rings, usually of metal, connected, or fitted into one another, used for various purposes, as of support, of restraint, of ornament, of the exertion and transmission of mechanical power, etc.
- 2noun
That which confines, fetters, or secures, as a chain; a bond; as, the chains of habit.
- 3noun
A series of things linked together; or a series of things connected and following each other in succession; as, a chain of mountains; a chain of events or ideas.
- 4noun
An instrument which consists of links and is used in measuring land.
- 5noun
Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
- 6noun
The warp threads of a web.
- 7transitive verb
To fasten, bind, or connect with a chain; to fasten or bind securely, as with a chain; as, to chain a bulldog.
- 8transitive verb
To keep in slavery; to enslave.
- 9transitive verb
To unite closely and strongly.
- 10transitive verb
To measure with the chain.
- 11transitive verb
To protect by drawing a chain across, as a harbor.
- 12noun
a series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament
- 13noun
a necklace made by a stringing objects together
"a string of beads"
"a strand of pearls"
- 14noun
anything that acts as a restraint
- 15noun
a linked or connected series of objects
"a chain of daisies"
- 16noun
(business) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership
- 17noun
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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- 18noun
(chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule)
- 19noun
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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- 20noun
British biochemist (born in Germany) who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1906-1979)
- 21noun
a unit of length
- 22verb
fasten or secure with chains
"Chain the chairs together"
- 23verb
connect or arrange into a chain by linking
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