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01. He had a diamond ring on his finger, and a large gold [chain] around his neck.
02. We had to [chain] our picnic table to a tree to keep someone from stealing it.
03. Japan is made up of a [chain] of islands in the Pacific Ocean.
04. The Wal-Mart department store [chain] is probably the most profitable retail business in the world.
05. Their dog was quite vicious, and had to be kept [chained] up all the time.
06. The prisoners were being kept in [chains] in order to prevent them from escaping.
07. He was wearing a heavy gold [chain] around his neck, and a gold ring on every finger.
08. Paul Whiteman once said that jazz came to America three hundred years ago in [chains].
09. Gandhi once said, "You can [chain] me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind."
10. In some carpet-making factories, child workers are [chained] to their machines for 12 hours a day.
11. There is a Danish proverb which states that a [chain] is only as strong as its weakest link.
12. Of the 3,000 islands of the Bahamas [chain] in the Caribbean, only 20 are inhabited.
13. About 250 million years ago, the state of New York was part of a [chain] of volcanic islands, with an ocean on one side, and a vast inland sea on the other.
14. A [chain] of mountains called the Hindu Kush runs for several hundred miles in northern Pakistan.
15. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu once said, "I prefer liberty to [chains] of diamonds."
16. A [chain] of volcanic hills runs the length of the island of Tobago.
17. In 1989, hundreds of thousands of people in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia linked arms to form a human [chain] stretching almost 650 miles to protest the Soviet take-over of the Baltics in 1940.
18. It took her twenty years to build her business up from one small shop to a [chain] of department stores.
19. Jean-Jacques Rousseau once stated, "Man was born free, and everywhere he is in [chains]."

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  • Chain — (ch[=a]n), n. [F. cha[^i]ne, fr. L. catena. Cf. {Catenate}.] 1. 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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • chain — [tʆeɪn] noun [countable] 1. a number of shops, hotels, cinemas etc owned or managed by the same company or person: • Britain s leading supermarket chain chain of • a chain of travel agents. 2. a series of people or organizations involved in… …   Financial and business terms

  • chain — chain; chain·er; chain·less; chain·let; chain·man; chain·o·mat·ic; chain·wale; en·chain; en·chain·ment; un·chain; mul·ti·chain; …   English syllables

  • chain — [chān] n. [ME & OFr chaine < L catena < IE base * kat , to twist, twine > prob. OE heathor, confinement] 1. a flexible series of joined links, usually of metal, used to pull, confine, etc. or to transmit power 2. TIRE CHAIN 3. [pl.] a)… …   English World dictionary

  • Chain — Chain, v. t. [imp. p. p. {Chained} (ch[=a]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Chaining}.] 1. To fasten, bind, or connect with a chain; to fasten or bind securely, as with a chain; as, to chain a bulldog. [1913 Webster] Chained behind the hostile car. Prior.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • chain — I (nexus) noun act of coming together, act of coupling, act of joining, act of uniting, affiliation, affinity, alliance, association, attachment, attraction, bond, bond of union, bridge, conjunction, connectedness, connecting link, connecting… …   Law dictionary

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  • chain — [n1] succession, series alternation, catena, concatenation, conglomerate, consecution, continuity, group, order, progression, row, sequence, set, string, syndicate, train, trust; concepts 432,727,769 chain [n2] connected metal links; jewelry made …   New thesaurus

  • chain —   [tʃeɪn, englisch], noch gebräuchliche Längeneinheit in Großbritannien und den USA: 1 chain = 22 yd = 20,1168 m …   Universal-Lexikon

  • Chain — [tʃein] das; s, <aus engl. chain »Kette«, dies aus fr. chaîne, vgl. ↑Chaine> Längeneinheit in Großbritannien u. in den USA (20,11 m) …   Das große Fremdwörterbuch

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