chain

Noun

• a necklace made by a stringing objects together;
  • a string of beads
    
  • a strand of pearls
    

• a linked or connected series of objects
  • a chain of daisies
    

• a series of hills or mountains
  • the valley was between two ranges of hills
    
  • the plains lay just beyond the mountain range
    

• British biochemist (born in Germany) who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1906-1979)

• a unit of length

• anything that acts as a restraint

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

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

• (chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule)

• a series of things depending on each other as if linked together
  • the chain of command
    
  • a complicated concatenation of circumstances
    

Verb

• fasten or secure with chains
  • Chain the chairs together
    

• connect or arrange into a chain by linking

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  string , strand , range , mountain range , range of mountains , mountain chain , chain of mountains , Chain , Ernst Boris Chain , Sir Ernst Boris Chain , chemical chain , concatenation