Synonym: bind, fasten, restrain, shackle. Similar words: chair, chairman, wheelchair, maintain, hair, chap., charm, Chart.. Meaning: [tʃeɪn] 
n. 1. a series of things depending on each other as if linked together 2. (chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule) 3. a series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament 4. a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership 5. anything that acts as a restraint 6. a unit of length 7. British biochemist (born in Germany) who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1906-1979) 8. a series of hills or mountains 9. a necklace made by a stringing objects together. v. 1. connect or arrange into a chain by linking 2. fasten or secure with chains.
n. 1. a series of things depending on each other as if linked together 2. (chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule) 3. a series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament 4. a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership 5. anything that acts as a restraint 6. a unit of length 7. British biochemist (born in Germany) who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1906-1979) 8. a series of hills or mountains 9. a necklace made by a stringing objects together. v. 1. connect or arrange into a chain by linking 2. fasten or secure with chains. 
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181. I was a very small link in an immensely long chain.
182. The defendant was held liable for the loss, as the thief's act did not break the chain of causation.
183. He began his retailing career in 1964 when he founded Habitat, a chain of stores selling well-designed modern furniture and furnishings.
184. Simply put, the longer the chain, the easier it is for an alcohol to mix with fat.
185. His hands are on the table, but they are held together by manacles, to which a chain is attached.
186. They had dropped out of the human chain of ancestors and descendants that had formerly bound them all together.
187. Some retailers use distinctive packaging for their own brands, eg one supermarket chain packaged everything in bright yellow.
188. Clare could see more rusty chain around the slender, peeling, silver trunk of a nearby birch tree.
189. If not correctly understood it can be the Achilles' heel of a complicated chain of investigations.
190. At her girdle hung a gold chain and cross, and she carried a handkerchief and a little prayer book bound in gold.
191. We didn't care about the magazine we just wanted to trace back the gold chain see who handled it.
192. If the act should have been foreseen by a reasonable man as likely, it would not break the chain of causation.
193. Lately, the restaurant chain, which caters mainly to blue-collar diners, has been hurt by competition.
194. He swung his left arm up in a reverse backstroke, and grasped the chain.
195. Chain superstores are crowded, yet the fastest-growing sales sector by far is on the Internet.
196. Gold bracelet, sports shirt, and a small crucifix dangled from a 24-carat chain round his throat.
197. The importance of such an outcome is very different depending on where in the causal chain the third variable comes.
198. From an operations district manager from a large retail chain.
199. We can form a human chain of Berliners along the Wall which no one dare break, nomatterhow many soldiers they send.
200. The death blow to drug chic actually may have been struck by a fast-food chain.
201. A number of companies have submitted bids to buy the supermarket chain.
202. The Lechmere chain traces its roots to merchant Abraham Cohen, who opened a harness store that bore his name in 1913.
203. Ask a grown-up to attach a hooked chain to the centre top bar.
204. However, nobody had made the conclusive step of considering the consequences of this, namely the chain of muon catalysis reactions.
205. Months later it merged with the considerably larger Mothercare chain in a reverse take-over.
206. The critical composition at which phase separation is first detected is then and which indicates that at infinitely large chain length.
207. We have already seen that amorphous materials such as polymers have chain structures.
208. Typically,[http://sentencedict.com/chain.html] engines are activated by a remote that fits on a key chain.
209. It consists of a chain of carbon atoms, with one hydrogen atom attached to each carbon.
210. They were linked by a slack, heavy, silvery chain that swayed lazily when he raised his hands.