Dictionary
Type a word in English or Spanish. English is blue, Spanish is rose. Tap any line to hear it.
chain
English
- 🔊 a series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament
- 🔊 a necklace made by stringing objects together“a string of beads”
- 🔊 anything that acts as a restraint
- 🔊 a linked or connected series of objects“a chain of daisies”
- 🔊 (business) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership
- 🔊 a series of things depending on each other as if linked together“the chain of command”
- 🔊 (chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule)
- 🔊 British biochemist (born in Germany) who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1906-1979)
- 🔊 a unit of length
- 🔊 a series of hills or mountains“the valley was between two ranges of hills”
- 🔊 fasten or secure with chains“Chain the chairs together”
- 🔊 connect or arrange into a chain by linking
Spanish
- 🔊 en cadena chain
- 🔊 encadenar to chain, to shackle
- 🔊 franquicia chain, franchise (a series of businesses with the same brand name)