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) |
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 |
chain fern | a fern of the genus Woodwardia having the sori in chainlike rows |
Virginia chain fern Woodwardia virginica | North American fern |
chain reaction | a series of chemical reactions in which the product of one is a reactant in the next |
chain reaction | a self-sustaining nuclear reaction, a series of nuclear fissions in which neutrons released by splitting one atom leads to the splitting of others |