Chain

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解释:

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

(noun.) a necklace made by a stringing objects together; 'a string of beads'; 'a strand of pearls';.

(noun.) anything that acts as a restraint.

(noun.) a linked or connected series of objects; 'a chain of daisies'.

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

(noun.) a series of things depending on each other as if linked together; 'the chain of command'; 'a complicated concatenation of circumstances'.

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

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

(noun.) a unit of length.

(verb.) fasten or secure with chains; 'Chain the chairs together'.

(verb.) connect or arrange into a chain by linking.

吉塞尔编辑--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) 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.

(n.) That which confines, fetters, or secures, as a chain; a bond; as, the chains of habit.

(n.) 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.

(n.) An instrument which consists of links and is used in measuring land.

(n.) Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.

(n.) The warp threads of a web.

(v. t.) To fasten, bind, or connect with a chain; to fasten or bind securely, as with a chain; as, to chain a bulldog.

(v. t.) To keep in slavery; to enslave.

(v. t.) To unite closely and strongly.

(v. t.) To measure with the chain.

(v. t.) To protect by drawing a chain across, as a harbor.

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同义词及近义词：

n. [1]. Fetter, manacle, shackle, bond.[2]. Connected series, orderly succession.

v. a. [1]. Fasten with a chain.[2]. Confine, restrain, fetter, shackle, trammel.[3]. Enslave, hold in bondage.

德威特编辑

解释:

n. a series of links or rings passing through one another: a number of things coming after each other: anything that binds: a connected course or train of events: in surveying often called Gunter's chain a measure of 100 links 66 feet long (10 sq. chains make an acre): (pl.) fetters bonds confinement generally.—v.t. to fasten: to fetter: to restrain: (Shak.) to embrace.—ns. Chain′-arm′our chain-mail; Chain′-bolt a large bolt used to secure the chain-plates to the ship's side; Chain′-bridge a bridge suspended on chains: a suspension-bridge; Chain′-cā′ble a cable composed of iron links.—p.adj. Chained bound or fastened as with a chain: fitted with a chain.—n. Chain′-gang a gang of convicts chained together.—adj. Chain′less without chains: unfettered.—ns. Chain′let a small chain; Chain′-mail mail or armour made of iron links connected together much used in Europe in the 12th and 13th centuries; Chain′-mould′ing moulding in the form of a chain; Chain′-pier a pier supported by chains like a chain-bridge.—n.pl. Chain′-plates on shipboard iron plates bolted below the channels to serve as attachments for the dead-eyes through which the standing rigging or shrouds and back-stays are rove and secured.—ns. Chain′-pump a pump consisting of buckets or plates fastened to an endless iron chain and used for raising water; Chain′-rule an arithmetical rule so called from the terms of the problem being stated as equations and connected as if by a chain so as to obtain by one operation the same result as would be obtained by a number of different operations in simple proportion: the rule for solving problems by compound proportion; Chain′-shot two bullets or half-bullets fastened together by a chain used formerly in naval engagements to destroy rigging now replaced by case-shot and shrapnel-shell; Chain′-stitch a peculiar kind of stitch resembling the links of a chain; Chain′-work work consisting of threads cords &c. wrought with open spaces like the links of a chain: network.

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