chain – English noun declension

English noun forms of chain

Noun: chain
Singularchain
Pluralchains

Sample Sentences

  • He wore a gold chain around the neck.
  • The anchor is connected to the boat with a 100-metre long chain.
  • wallet chain
  • And gainſt the General we will lift our ſwords
  • And either lanch his greedie thirſting throat,
  • Or take him priſoner, and his chaine ſhall ſerue
  • For Manackles, till he be ranſom’d home. [c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:]
  • the chains of habit
  • Driven down / To chains of darkness and the undying worm. [1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:]
  • He put chains on my tires.
  • My bike needs a chain.
  • His watch's chain was gold-plated.
  • Get the key off my chain.
  • They knocked him out and snatched his chain.
  • I couldn't open the door because it was on its chain.
  • "But it's too far—must be a quarter of a mile—and I've a portmanteau to carry." […]
  • "Garn!" shouted the guard. "Taint ten chain. […]" [1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter X, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 177:]
  • I saw a brilliant chain of lightning across the sky.
  • a chain of mountains
  • a chain of ideas, one leading to the next
  • This led to an unfortunate chain of events.
  • We have to maintain chain of custody.
  • You mustn't break the chain of this chain letter.
  • That chain of restaurants is expanding into our town.
  • I love that place because it's not a chain.
  • Send it up the chain, so head office will have to deal with it.
  • cold chain, kill chain, supply chain, value chain
  • In public disclosures and press releases, the corporations perched atop the cobalt chain typically cite their commitments to international human rights norms, zero-tolerance policies on child labor, and adherence to the highest standards of supply chain due diligence. [2023, Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives, St. Martin's Publishing Group:]
  • side chain
  • When examined, the molecular chain included oxygen and hydrogen.
  • We first find an approximation of the chain partition, i.e. a small but not minimum size set of chains which cover all elements of the poset. [2003, Jeremy P. Spinrad, Efficient Graph Representations, American Mathematical Society, page 108:]

Etymology

From Middle English cheyne, chaine, from Old French chaine, chaene (“chain”), from Latin catēna (“chain”), from Proto-Indo-European *kat- (“to braid, twist; hut, shed”). Doublet of catena. Displaced native Middle English rakil and rakent (from Old English racente (“chain”)); see rackan. See: Middle English Nouns 'cheyne', Latin Nouns 'catēna'.

Verbs referencing "chain"

Spanish Nouns cadena, Portuguese Nouns cadeia, Swedish Nouns kedja.