Brequet chain () A watch-guard. |
Chain (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. |
Chain (n.) That which confines, fetters, or secures, as a chain |
Chain (n.) A series of things linked together |
Chain (n.) An instrument which consists of links and is used in measuring land. |
Chain (n.) Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds |
Chain (n.) The warp threads of a web. |
Chain (v. t.) To fasten, bind, or connect with a chain |
Chain (v. t.) To keep in slavery |
Chain (v. t.) To unite closely and strongly. |
Chain (v. t.) To measure with the chain. |
Chain (v. t.) To protect by drawing a chain across, as a harbor. |
Chain pump () A pump consisting of an endless chain, running over a drum or wheel by which it is moved, and dipping below the water to be raised. The chain has at intervals disks or lifts which fit the tube through which the ascending part passes and carry the water to the point of discharge. |
Chain stitch () An ornamental stitch like the links of a chain |
Chain stitch () A stitch in which the looping of the thread or threads forms a chain on the under side of the work |
Chain wheel () A chain pulley, or sprocket wheel. |
Chain wheel () An inversion of the chain pump, by which it becomes a motor driven by water. |
Gunter's chain () The chain ordinarily used in measuring land. See Chain, n., 4, and Gunter's scale. |
Sheet chain () A chain sheet cable. |
Tension (a.) The act of stretching or straining |
Tension (a.) Fig.: Extreme strain of mind or excitement of feeling |
Tension (a.) The degree of stretching to which a wire, cord, piece of timber, or the like, is strained by drawing it in the direction of its length |
Tension (a.) The force by which a part is pulled when forming part of any system in equilibrium or in motion |
Tension (a.) A device for checking the delivery of the thread in a sewing machine, so as to give the stitch the required degree of tightness. |
Tension (a.) Expansive force |
Tension (a.) The quality in consequence of which an electric charge tends to discharge itself, as into the air by a spark, or to pass from a body of greater to one of less electrical potential. It varies as the quantity of electricity upon a given area. |
Top-chain (n.) A chain for slinging the lower yards, in time of action, to prevent their falling, if the ropes by which they are hung are shot away. |
tension | the action of stretching something tight, tension holds the belt in the pulleys |
chain pickerel chain pike Esox niger | common in quiet waters of eastern United States |
anchor chain anchor rope | the chain or rope that attaches an anchor to a vessel |
atomic pile atomic reactor pile chain reactor | a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy |
ball and chain | heavy iron ball attached to a prisoner by a chain |
bicycle chain | a chain that transmits the power from the pedals to the rear wheel of a bicycle |
chain | a series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament |
chain string strand | a necklace made by a stringing objects together, a string of beads, a strand of pearls, |
chain | anything that acts as a restraint |
chain | a linked or connected series of objects, a chain of daisies |
chain mail ring mail mail chain armor chain armour ring armor ring armour | (Middle Ages) flexible armor made of interlinked metal rings |
chain printer | an impact printer that carries the type slugs by links of a revolving chain |
chain saw chainsaw | portable power saw, teeth linked to form an endless chain |
chain stitch | a looped stitch resembling the links of a chain, used in embroidery and in sewing |
chain stitch | the most basic of all crochet stitches made by pulling a loop of yarn through another loop |
chain store | one of a chain of retail stores under the same management and selling the same merchandise |
chain tongs | a pipe wrench used for turning large pipes, an adjustable chain circles the pipe with its ends connected to the head whose teeth engage the pipe |
chain wrench | another name for chain tongs |
daisy chain | flower chain consisting of a string of daisies linked by their stems, worn by students on class day at some schools |
flower chain | flowers strung together in a chain |
fob watch chain watch guard | short chain or ribbon attaching a pocket watch to a man's vest |
paper chain | a chain made of loops of colored paper, used to decorate a room |
pull chain | a chain (usually with a handle at the end) that is pulled in order to operate some mechanism (e.g. to flush a toilet) |
tire chain snow chain | chain attached to wheels to increase traction on ice or snow |
chain letter | a letter that is sent successively to several people |
chain | (business) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership |
apparel chain | a chain of clothing stores |
discount chain | a chain of discount stores |
restaurant chain | a chain of restaurants |
retail chain | a chain of retail stores |
chain gang | a gang of convicts chained together |
chain concatenation | a series of things depending on each other as if linked together, the chain of command, a complicated concatenation of circumstances |
daisy chain | (figurative) a series of associated things or people or experiences |
Pennines Pennine Chain | a system of hills in Britain that extend from the Scottish border in the north to the Trent River in the south, forms the watershed for English rivers |
branched chain | an open chain of atoms with one or more side chains attached to it |
chain chemical chain | (chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule) |
closed chain ring | (chemistry) a chain of atoms in a molecule that forms a closed loop |
long chain longhain molecule | (chemistry) a relatively long chain of atoms in a molecule |
open chain | a chain of atoms in a molecule whose ends are not joined to form a ring |
range mountain range range of mountains chain mountain chain chain of mountains | a series of hills or mountains, the valley was between two ranges of hills, the plains lay just beyond the mountain range |
straight chain | an open chain of atoms with no side chains |
chain-smoker | a heavy smoker (usually of cigarettes) who lights one off of another |
Chain Ernst Boris Chain Sir Ernst Boris Chain | British biochemist (born in Germany) who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in by Sir Alexander Fleming (-) |
food chain | (ecology) a community of organisms where each member is eaten in turn by another member |
forked lightning chain lightning | a form of lightning that moves rapidly in a zigzag path with one end divided (fork-like) |
tension | (physics) a stress that produces an elongation of an elastic physical body, the direction of maximum tension moves asymptotically toward the direction of the shear |
surface tension | a phenomenon at the surface of a liquid caused by intermolecular forces |
interfacial tension interfacial surface tension | surface tension at the surface separating two non-miscible liquids |
Scotch laburnum Alpine golden chain Laburnum alpinum | an ornamental shrub or tree of the genus Laburnum |
common laburnum golden chain golden rain Laburnum anagyroides | an ornamental shrub or tree of the genus Laburnum, often cultivated for Easter decorations |