Chain vs. Link

Chainnoun

A series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal.

Chainnoun

A series of interconnected things.

Chainnoun

A series of stores or businesses with the same brand name.

Chainnoun

(chemistry) A number of atoms in a series, which combine to form a molecule.

Chainnoun

(surveying) A series of interconnected links of known length, used as a measuring device.

Chainnoun

(surveying) A long measuring tape.

Chainnoun

A unit of length equal to 22 yards. The length of a Gunter's surveying chain. The length of a cricket pitch. Equal to 20.12 metres, 4 rods, or 100 links.

Chainnoun

A totally ordered set, especially a totally ordered subset of a poset.

Chainnoun

(British) A sequence of linked house purchases, each of which is dependent on the preceding and succeeding purchase (said to be "broken" if a buyer or seller pulls out).

Chainnoun

That which confines, fetters, or secures; a bond.

Chainnoun

Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.

Chainnoun

(weaving) The warp threads of a web.

Chainverb

(transitive) To fasten something with a chain.

Chainverb

(intransitive) To link multiple items together.

Chainverb

(transitive) To secure someone with fetters.

Chainverb

(transitive) To obstruct the mouth of a river etc with a chain.

Chainverb

(figurative) To obligate.

Chainverb

(computing) To relate data items with a chain of pointers.

Chainverb

(computing) To be chained to another data item.

Chainverb

(transitive) To measure a distance using a 66-foot long chain, as in land surveying.

Chainverb

}} To load and automatically run (a program).

Chainnoun

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.

Chainnoun

That which confines, fetters, or secures, as a chain; a bond; as, the chains of habit.

Chainnoun

A series of things linked together; or a series of things connected and following each other in succession; as, a chain of mountains; a chain of events or ideas.

Chainnoun

An instrument which consists of links and is used in measuring land.

Chainnoun

Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.

Chainnoun

The warp threads of a web.

Chainverb

To fasten, bind, or connect with a chain; to fasten or bind securely, as with a chain; as, to chain a bulldog.

Chainverb

To keep in slavery; to enslave.

Chainverb

To unite closely and strongly.

Chainverb

To measure with the chain.

Chainverb

To protect by drawing a chain across, as a harbor.

Chainnoun

a series of things depending on each other as if linked together;

Chainnoun

(chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule)

Chainnoun

a series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament

Chainnoun

a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership

Chainnoun

anything that acts as a restraint

Chainnoun

a unit of length

Chainnoun

British biochemist (born in Germany) who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1906-1979)

Chainnoun

a series of hills or mountains;

Chainnoun

metal shackles; for hands or legs

Chainnoun

a necklace made by a stringing objects together;

Chainverb

connect or arrange into a chain by linking

Chainverb

fasten or secure with chains;

Chainnoun

a series of linked metal rings used for fastening or securing something, or for pulling loads

Chainnoun

a decorative chain worn round the neck as jewellery or as a badge of office

Chainnoun

a restrictive force or factor

Chainnoun

a sequence of items of the same type forming a line

Chainnoun

a series of connected elements

Chainnoun

a connected series of mountains

Chainnoun

a group of hotels, restaurants, or shops owned by the same company

Chainnoun

a situation in which the sale of a house or flat is dependent on the prospective buyer selling their own or the seller buying another first

Chainnoun

a part of a molecule consisting of a number of atoms bonded together in a linear sequence.

Chainnoun

a figure in a quadrille or similar dance, in which dancers meet and pass each other in a continuous sequence.

Chainnoun

a jointed measuring line consisting of linked metal rods.

Chainnoun

a measure of length equivalent to a chain (66 ft).

Chainnoun

a structure of planks projecting horizontally from a sailing ship's sides abreast of the masts, used to widen the basis for the shrouds.

Chainverb

fasten or secure with a chain

Chainverb

confine with a chain

Chain

A chain is a serial assembly of connected pieces, called links, typically made of metal, with an overall character similar to that of a rope in that it is flexible and curved in compression but linear, rigid, and load-bearing in tension. A chain may consist of two or more links.

Linknoun

A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.

Linknoun

One element of a chain or other connected series.

Linknoun

(computing) The connection between buses or systems.

Linknoun

(mathematics) A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.

Linknoun

(Sussex) a thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.

Linknoun

(figurative) an individual person or element in a system

Linknoun

Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.

Linknoun

A sausage that is not a patty.

Linknoun

(kinematics) Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, such as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.

Linknoun

(engineering) Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (in steam engines) the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.

Linknoun

(surveying) The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in length.

Linknoun

(chemistry) A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.

Linknoun

(plural) The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream.

Linknoun

(obsolete) A torch, used to light dark streets.

Linkverb

(transitive) To connect two or more things.

Linkverb

To contain a hyperlink to another page.

Linkverb

To supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.

Linkverb

To post a hyperlink to.

Linkverb

(transitive) To demonstrate a correlation between two things.

Linkverb

(compilation) To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable.

Linkverb

To skip or trip along smartly; to go quickly. en

Linknoun

A torch made of tow and pitch, or the like.

Linknoun

A single ring or division of a chain.

Linknoun

Hence: Anything, whether material or not, which binds together, or connects, separate things; a part of a connected series; a tie; a bond.

Linknoun

Anything doubled and closed like a link; as, a link of horsehair.

Linknoun

Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.

Linknoun

Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (Steam Engine), the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.

Linknoun

The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in length. Cf. Chain, n., 4.

Linknoun

A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; - applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.

Linknoun

Sausages; - because linked together.

Linknoun

A hill or ridge, as a sand hill, or a wooded or turfy bank between cultivated fields, etc.

Linknoun

A winding of a river; also, the ground along such a winding; a meander; - usually in pl.

Linknoun

Sand hills with the surrounding level or undulating land, such as occur along the seashore, a river bank, etc.

Linknoun

Hence, any such piece of ground where golf is played; a golf course.

Linkverb

To connect or unite with a link or as with a link; to join; to attach; to unite; to couple.

Linkverb

To be connected.

Linknoun

the means of connection between things linked in series

Linknoun

a fastener that serves to join or link;

Linknoun

the state of being connected;

Linknoun

a connecting shape

Linknoun

a unit of length equal to 1/100 of a chain

Linknoun

(computing) an instruction that connects one part of a program or an element on a list to another program or list

Linknoun

a channel for communication between groups;

Linknoun

a two-way radio communication system (usually microwave); part of a more extensive telecommunication network

Linknoun

an interconnecting circuit between two or more locations for the purpose of transmitting and receiving data

Linkverb

make a logical or causal connection;

Linkverb

connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces;

Linkverb

be or become joined or united or linked;

Linkverb

link with or as with a yoke;