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

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. That which confines, fetters, or secures, as a chain; a bond; as, the chains of habit.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. An instrument which consists of links and is used in measuring land.
5. noun. Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
6. noun. The warp threads of a web.
7. transitive verb. To fasten, bind, or connect with a chain; to fasten or bind securely, as with a chain; as, to chain a bulldog.
8. transitive verb. To keep in slavery; to enslave.
9. transitive verb. To unite closely and strongly.
10. transitive verb. To measure with the chain.
11. transitive verb. To protect by drawing a chain across, as a harbor.
12. noun. a series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament
13. noun. a necklace made by a stringing objects together

    "a string of beads"

    "a strand of pearls"

    Synonyms: strand, string

14. noun. anything that acts as a restraint
15. noun. a linked or connected series of objects

    "a chain of daisies"

16. noun. (business) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership
17. noun. a series of things depending on each other as if linked together

    "the chain of command"

    "a complicated concatenation of circumstances"

    Synonyms: concatenation

18. noun. (chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule)
19. noun. a series of hills or mountains

    "the valley was between two ranges of hills"

    "the plains lay just beyond the mountain range"

    Synonyms: range

20. noun. British biochemist (born in Germany) who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1906-1979)
21. noun. a unit of length
22. verb. fasten or secure with chains

    "Chain the chairs together"

23. verb. connect or arrange into a chain by linking

Synonyms

strand, string, concatenation, range

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in chain:

chian, china

Common word forms

chains, chained, chainer, chaines, chaining, chainless

Words from these letters

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