Definition of chains

The noun chains has 1 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)

(metal shackles; for hands or legs)

The noun chain has 10 senses? (first 5 from tagged texts)

(a series of things depending on each other as if linked together; "the chain of command"; "a complicated concatenation of circumstances")

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

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

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

(anything that acts as a restraint)

(a unit of length)

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

(a series of hills or mountains; "the valley was between two ranges of hills"; "the plains lay just beyond the mountain range")

(a linked or connected series of objects; "a chain of daisies")

(a necklace made by a stringing objects together; "a string of beads"; "a strand of pearls";)

The verb chain has 2 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)

(connect or arrange into a chain by linking)

(fasten or secure with chains; "Chain the chairs together")