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We found 66 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word chain:
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General dictionaries General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. chain: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. chain: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  3. chain: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  4. chain: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  5. Chain: Wiktionary [home, info]
  6. chain: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  7. chain: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  8. chain: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  9. chain: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  10. chain: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  11. Chain, chain: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  12. chain: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  13. chain: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info]
  14. CHAIN (industry standard), CHAIN (programming language), CHAIN, Chain (algebraic topology), Chain (disambiguation), Chain (film), Chain (in selling a house), Chain (length), Chain (mathematics), Chain (order theory), Chain (sequence), Chain (the movie), Chain (unit), Chain (unit of measure), The Chain (Buffy comic), The Chain (film), The Chain: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  15. chain: Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs [home, info]
  16. Chain: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  17. chain: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  18. chain: Rhymezone [home, info]
  19. chain: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  20. chain: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  21. chain: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms [home, info]
  22. chain: Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition [home, info]
  23. Chain: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
  24. chain: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  25. chain: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words [home, info]
  26. chain: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  27. chain: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  28. Chain, chain: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  29. chain: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
  30. chain: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. CHAIN, Chain: Lexicon of Linguistics [home, info]
  2. Chain: Dictionary of Symbolism [home, info]
  3. chain: ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chain: MoneyGlossary.com [home, info]
  2. chain: Travel Industry Dictionary [home, info]
  3. Chain: Construction Term Glossary [home, info]
  4. chain: BusinessDictionary.com [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. chain: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [home, info]
  2. chain: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [home, info]
  3. chain: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. chain: Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary [home, info]
  2. chain: online medical dictionary [home, info]
  3. CHAIN: ACRONYMS FOR HEALTH INFORMATION RESOURCES [home, info]
  4. chain: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chain: Arms and Armour [home, info]
  2. CHAIN: Acronym Finder [home, info]
  3. CHAIN: AbbreviationZ [home, info]
  4. chain: Idioms [home, info]

Religion dictionaries Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chain: Easton Bible [home, info]
  2. Chain: Smith's Bible Dictionary [home, info]
  3. chain: Scientology® and Dianetics® [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chain: Biological Sciences Dictionary [home, info]
  2. chain: Archaeology Wordsmith [home, info]
  3. Chain: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics [home, info]
  4. chain: mda Archaeological Objects Thesaurus [home, info]
  5. -chain, -chain, chain, chain, chain, chain: PlanetMath Encyclopedia [home, info]
  6. chain: Anthropology dictionary [home, info]
  7. chain (ch): How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement [home, info]

Slang dictionaries Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chain: Totally Unofficial Rap [home, info]
  2. chain: The Folk File [home, info]

Sports dictionaries Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chain: Internet Karting Glossary [home, info]
  2. Chain: Bicycle Glossary [home, info]
  3. chain: Terra.org's Sailing Terms [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. chain: DOD Dictionary of Military Terms [home, info]
  2. Chain: Bridge Dictionary [home, info]
  3. chain: SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language [home, info]

Quick definitions (chain)

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;
noun:  anything that acts as a restraint
noun:  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")
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
noun:  metal shackles; for hands or legs
noun:  a series of hills or mountains
verb:  fasten or secure with chains ("Chain the chairs together")
verb:  connect or arrange into a chain by linking
name:  A surname (very rare: popularity rank in the U.S.: #22383)

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Phrases that include chain:   daisy chain, chain stitch, gunter's chain, chain printer, ernst boris chain, more...

Words similar to chain:   chained, chaining, concatenation, iron, irons, range, strand, string, catena, chain of mountains, chemical chain, fetter, mountain chain, mountain range, range of mountains, sequence, more...


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