Franchise vs. Chain

Franchisenoun

The right to vote at a public election or referendum; see: suffrage, suffragette.

Franchisenoun

A right or privilege officially granted to a person, a group of people, or a company by a government.

Franchisenoun

An acknowledgment of a corporation's existence and ownership.

Franchisenoun

The authorization granted by a company to sell or distribute its goods or services in a certain area.

Franchisenoun

A business operating under such authorization, a franchisee.

Franchisenoun

A legal exemption from jurisdiction.

Franchisenoun

The membership of a corporation or state; citizenship.

Franchisenoun

The district or jurisdiction to which a particular privilege extends; the limits of an immunity; hence, an asylum or sanctuary.

Franchisenoun

(sports) The collection of organizations in the history of a sports team; the tradition of a sports team as an entity, extending beyond the contemporary organization.

Franchisenoun

The positive influence on the buying behavior of customers exerted by the reputation of a company or a brand.

Franchisenoun

The loose collection of fictional works pertaining to a particular universe, including literary, film, or television series from various sources.

Franchisenoun

Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.

Franchisenoun

(obsolete) Magnanimity; generosity; liberality; frankness; nobility.

Franchiseverb

(transitive) To confer certain powers on; grant a franchise to; authorize.

Franchiseverb

To set free; invest with a franchise or privilege; enfranchise.

Franchisenoun

Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.

Franchisenoun

A particular privilege conferred by grant from a sovereign or a government, and vested in individuals; an immunity or exemption from ordinary jurisdiction; a constitutional or statutory right or privilege, esp. the right to vote.

Franchisenoun

The district or jurisdiction to which a particular privilege extends; the limits of an immunity; hence, an asylum or sanctuary.

Franchisenoun

Magnanimity; generosity; liberality; frankness; nobility.

Franchiseverb

To make free; to enfranchise; to give liberty to.

Franchisenoun

an authorization to sell a company's goods or services in a particular place

Franchisenoun

a business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area

Franchisenoun

a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote)

Franchiseverb

grant a franchise to

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.