| recycling | the act of processing used or abandoned materials for use in creating new products |
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) |
| recycling bin | a bin for depositing things to be recycled |
| recycling plant | a plant for reprocessing used or abandoned materials |
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 |