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noun
noun
- a craftsman who makes ropes
- a cowboy who uses a lasso to rope cattle or horses
- a decoy who lures customers into a gambling establishment (especially one with a fixed game)
- (slang) An undercover informer.
- (gaming) Any of a variety of monsters with tentacles that they use to capture victims.
- Agent noun of rope; one who uses a rope, especially one who throws a lariat or lasso.
- One who ropes goods; a packer.
- A person hired by a gambling establishment to locate potential customers and bring them in.
- (slang) Synonym of outside man (“accomplice who locates a mark to be swindled by a confidence trickster”).
noun
noun
- A person who works with straps, as on leather goods.
- A large, strong, robust person (usually a man).
- (electronics) A wire that joins two light switches so that a light can be turned off or on from either switch.
- One who straps horses; now, specifically, someone employed to attend and groom racehorses.
- a large and strong and heavyset man
noun
- Someone who binds.
- (chemistry) A chemical or other substance that causes two other substances to form into one.
- (UK, slang) One who whines or complains.
- (molecular biology) A protein binder.
- A cover or holder for unbound papers, pages, etc.
- Something that is used to bind things together, often referring to the mechanism that accomplishes this for a book.
- (law) A down payment on a piece of real property that secures the payor the right to purchase the property from the payee upon an agreement of terms.
- (chiefly Minnesota) A rubber band.
- (agriculture) A machine used in harvesting which cuts the stalks of a crop and then ties them into a bundle or sheaf.
- (LGBTQ) Material or clothing used in binding or flattening the breasts.
- A dossier.
- Someone who binds books; a bookbinder.
- (computing) A program or routine that attaches malware to an existing harmless file on the target system.
- (programming) A software mechanism that performs binding.
- something used to tie or bind
- a machine that cuts grain and binds it in sheaves
- holds loose papers or magazines
- something used to bind separate particles together or facilitate adhesion to a surface
noun
- One who buckles something.
- (zoology) The anterior segment of the shell of a trilobite.
- (zoology) One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.
- (nautical) A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches.
- A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, held in the hand or worn on the arm (usually the left), for protecting the front of the body. In the sword and buckler play of the Middle Ages in England, the buckler was a small shield, used not to cover the body but to stop or parry blows.
- armor carried on the arm to intercept blows
noun
- A person who makes knots.
- A machine or device that makes knots.
- (pulp and paper) A screen used to remove “knots” or impurities from wood pulp in the process of making paper.
- (nautical, in compounds) A vessel capable of reaching a specified speed in knots.
- (nautical, in compounds) A wind blowing at a specified velocity in knots.
noun
- One who ties (knots, etc.).
- a worker who ties something
- A horizontal row of panels within a comic strip.
- (Australia) A (typically forested) range of hills or mountains, especially in South Australia or Tasmania; a mountain.
- A rank or grade; a stratum.
- Something that ties.
- A row or range, especially one at a higher or lower level than another.
- something that is used for tying
- a relative position or degree of value in a graded group
- any one of two or more competitors who tie one another
- one of two or more layers one atop another
verb
noun
- A pothook.
- A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
- A bishop's standard staff of office.
- A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
- A specialized staff with a semi-circular bend (a "hook") at one end used by shepherds to control their herds.
- An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
- A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
- A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
- (music) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
- a circular segment of a curve
- a long staff with one end being hook shaped
- someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
adj
verb
noun
- a person who makes things
- a machine tool for shaping metal or wood
- (agent noun) Any agent that shapes (something), whether literally or figuratively.
- (surfing) A person who designs and builds surfboards.
- (machining) A machine tool in which a single-point cutting tool mounted on a reciprocating ram is traversed across the workpiece linearly. Shapers can generate various shapes, but were most especially employed in generating flat surfaces and keyways. The shaper is nowadays obsolescent, most of its applications being served by milling machines.
noun
noun
- a worker who strings
- a long horizontal timber to connect uprights
- a member of a squad on a team
- brace consisting of a longitudinal member to strengthen a fuselage or hull
- (surfing) Wooden strip running lengthwise down the centre of a surfboard, for strength.
- Someone who threads something; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows.
- A small screw-hook to which piano strings are sometimes attached.
- (baseball, slang, 1800s) A hard-hit ball.
- (journalism) A freelance correspondent not on the regular newspaper staff, especially one retained on a part-time basis to report on events in a particular place.
- A pallet or skid used when shipping less than truckload (LTL) freight. A platform typically constructed of timber or plastic designed such that freight may be stacked on top, able to be lifted by a forklift.
- A horizontal timber that supports upright posts, or supports the hull of a vessel.
- (fishing) A cord or chain, sometimes with additional loops, that is threaded through the mouth and gills of caught fish.
- (sports) A person who plays on a particular string.
- (birdwatching) A person who deliberately states that a certain bird is present when it is not; one who knowingly misleads other birders about the occurrence of a bird, especially a rarity.
- (carpentry) The side rail supporting the rungs of a ladder or the steps of a flight of stairs.
- Someone who strings someone along.
noun
- One who makes knickknacks, toys, etc.
- (UK, slang, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) A testicle.
- (Ireland, offensive, slang) A person of lower social class; a chav, skanger, or similar.
- One of two or more pieces of bone or wood held loosely between the fingers, and struck together by moving the hand.
- (Ireland, British, ethnic slur, offensive) An itinerant person, especially one of Irish Traveller heritage.
- One who slaughters and (especially) renders worn-out livestock (especially horses) and sells their flesh, bones and hides.
- An old, worn-out horse.
- One who dismantles old ships, houses, etc. and sells their components.
- someone who buys up old horses for slaughter
- someone who buys old buildings or ships and breaks them up to recover the materials in them
verb
noun
- One who welds, that is, wields.
- A machine that a human operator uses for welding.
- A manager; an actual occupant; a land-tenant holding under the farmer or middleman.
- One who welds, that is, unites pieces of steel, aluminum, or other metals by welding.
- A robotic machine that welds automatically.
- joins pieces of metal by welding them together
noun
- someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads)
- fisherman's lure; revolves when drawn through the water
- board game equipment that consists of a dial and an arrow that is spun to determine the next move in the game
- (Australia, prison, slang) A mentally disturbed or eccentric person; weirdo.
- (fishing) A type of lure consisting of wire, a rotating blade, a weighted body, and one or more hooks.
- Agent noun of spin; someone or something who spins.
- (often vulgar, slang, film) Primarily in the adult film industry, an woman with a tiny frame, usually very thin and small-breasted.
- An ornamental hubcap that spins independently of the wheel
- (slang) A record turntable or CD player.
- (Australia, New Zealand) The coin thrower in a game of two-up.
- A device that is spun in games to choose a number or symbol.
- (pinball) A flat target mounted on an axis so that a ball passing through can make it spin around, usually awarding a certain number of points for every revolution it completes.
- (politics, slang) A spin doctor.
- (slang) A disc jockey.
- (cricket) A spin bowler.
- (Jamaica) A kind of dumpling, shaped by "spinning" it in the hands.
- Ellipsis of fidget spinner.
- (surfing) A manoeuvre in which the surfer makes a complete 360° turn while riding a surfboard.
- A dolphin (Stenella longirostris).
- (computing, graphical user interface) An input control for entering a number, with accompanying arrowed buttons that increase or decrease the value.
- A conical fairing near the hub of some aircraft propellers or turbofan fans.
- A spinneret.
- A Eurasian nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus).
noun
- someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads)
- an elderly unmarried woman
- (sometimes derogatory) A woman who has never been married, especially one past the typical marrying age according to social traditions.
- One who spins (puts a spin on) a political media story so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance; a spin doctor, spin merchant or spinmeister.
- (rare, dialectal) A spider; an insect (such as a silkworm) which spins thread.
noun
- Someone who makes things from wood.
- Someone who lives in the wood and manages it; (by extension) someone who spends time in the woods and has a strong familiarity with that environment.
- Someone who cuts down trees or cuts up, splits, and sells wood.
- a man who lives in the woods
- a man who makes things out of wood
noun
noun
- (countable) One who assembles items.
- (nanotechnology, countable) A nanodevice capable of assembling nanodevices, possibly including copies of itself, according to a plan.
- (computer languages, informal, chiefly uncountable) Assembly language.
- (programming, countable) A program that reads source code written in assembly language and produces executable machine code, possibly together with information needed by linkers, debuggers and other tools.
- a program to convert assembly language into machine language
noun
- A chain worn around the neck.
- (technology) Any encircling device or structure.
- (slang) An arrest.
- A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with the esophagus.
- (mining) A curb, or a horizontal timbering, around the mouth of a shaft.
- (mathematics) A topological neighborhood around a submanifold that can be deformed to preserve a specified condition or structure.
- (in compounds) Of or pertaining to a certain category of professions as symbolized by typical clothing.
- A part of harness designed to distribute the load around the shoulders of a draft animal.
- A similar detachable item.
- (nautical) An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope to which certain parts of rigging, as dead-eyes, are secured.
- (finance) A trading strategy using options such that there is both an upper limit on profit and a lower limit on loss, constructed through taking equal but opposite positions in a put and a call with different strike prices.
- (botany) The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem
- A decorative band or other fabric around the neckline.
- A piece of meat from the neck of an animal.
- (architecture) A collar beam.
- (architecture) A ring or cincture.
- (rail transport) A physical lockout device to prevent operation of a mechanical signal lever.
- The part of an upper garment (shirt, jacket, etc.) that fits around the neck and throat, especially if sewn from a separate piece of fabric.
- A coloured ring round the neck of a bird or mammal.
- A band or chain around an animal's neck, used to restrain and/or identify it.
- a short ring fastened over a rod or shaft to limit, guide, or secure a machine part
- necklace that fits tightly around a woman's neck
- the stitching that forms the rim of a shoe or boot
- (zoology) an encircling band or marking around the neck of any animal
- a band of leather or rope that is placed around an animal's neck as a harness or to identify it
- a band that fits around the neck and is usually folded over
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
- a figurative restraint
- anything worn or placed about the neck
verb
- (transitive) To place a collar on, to fit with one.
- (transitive) To grab or seize by the collar or neck.
- (transitive) To roll up (beef or other meat) and bind it with string preparatory to cooking.
- (law enforcement, transitive) To arrest.
- (transitive) To seize, capture or detain.
- (transitive, BDSM) To bind (a submissive) to a dominant under specific conditions or obligations.
- (transitive) To steal.
- (figuratively, transitive) To bind in conversation.
- (transitive) To preempt, control stringently and exclusively.
- To surround or encircle.
- take into custody
- furnish with a collar
- seize by the neck or collar
noun
noun
verb
- fasten or secure with chains
- connect or arrange into a chain by linking
- (computing) To be chained to another data item.
- (transitive, computing, rare, associated with Acorn Computers) To load and automatically run (a program).
- (intransitive) To link multiple items together.
- (figurative) To connect as if with a chain, due to dependence, addiction, or other feelings
- (computing) To relate data items with a chain of pointers.
- (transitive) To measure a distance using a 66-foot long chain, as in land surveying.
- (figurative) To obligate.
- (transitive) To secure someone with fetters.
- (transitive) To fasten something with a chain.
- (transitive) To obstruct the mouth of a river etc with a chain.
noun
- a unit of length
- a series of things depending on each other as if linked together
- (chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule)
- anything that acts as a restraint
- 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 linked or connected series of objects
- (business) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership
- a series of hills or mountains
- A livery collar, a chain of office.
- (algebraic topology, homological algebra, more generally) An element of a group (or module) in a chain complex.
- A unit of length, exactly equal to 22 yards, which is 4 rods or 100 links, and approximately equal to 20.12 metres; the length of a Gunter's surveying chain; the length of a cricket pitch.
- That which confines, fetters, or secures; a bond.
- A series of stores or businesses with the same brand name.
- A series of interconnected things.
- (weaving) The warp threads of a web.
- (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).
- (surveying) A series of interconnected links of known length, used as a measuring device.
- A series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal.
- (surveying) A long measuring tape.
- (mathematics, set theory, order theory) A totally ordered set, especially a totally ordered subset of a poset.
- (nautical, in the plural) Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
- (algebraic topology, originally) A formal sum of cells in a CW complex of a certain dimension k (in which case the formal sums are called k'''-chains); a formal sum of simplices or cubes of a certain dimension in a simplical complex or cubical complex (respectively).
- (organic chemistry, physical chemistry) A number of atoms in a series, which combine to form a molecule.
noun
noun
- a craftsman who makes ropes
- a cowboy who uses a lasso to rope cattle or horses
- a decoy who lures customers into a gambling establishment (especially one with a fixed game)
- (slang) An undercover informer.
- (gaming) Any of a variety of monsters with tentacles that they use to capture victims.
- Agent noun of rope; one who uses a rope, especially one who throws a lariat or lasso.
- One who ropes goods; a packer.
- A person hired by a gambling establishment to locate potential customers and bring them in.
- (slang) Synonym of outside man (“accomplice who locates a mark to be swindled by a confidence trickster”).
noun
noun
- A person who works with straps, as on leather goods.
- A large, strong, robust person (usually a man).
- (electronics) A wire that joins two light switches so that a light can be turned off or on from either switch.
- One who straps horses; now, specifically, someone employed to attend and groom racehorses.
- a large and strong and heavyset man
noun
- Someone who binds.
- (chemistry) A chemical or other substance that causes two other substances to form into one.
- (UK, slang) One who whines or complains.
- (molecular biology) A protein binder.
- A cover or holder for unbound papers, pages, etc.
- Something that is used to bind things together, often referring to the mechanism that accomplishes this for a book.
- (law) A down payment on a piece of real property that secures the payor the right to purchase the property from the payee upon an agreement of terms.
- (chiefly Minnesota) A rubber band.
- (agriculture) A machine used in harvesting which cuts the stalks of a crop and then ties them into a bundle or sheaf.
- (LGBTQ) Material or clothing used in binding or flattening the breasts.
- A dossier.
- Someone who binds books; a bookbinder.
- (computing) A program or routine that attaches malware to an existing harmless file on the target system.
- (programming) A software mechanism that performs binding.
- something used to tie or bind
- a machine that cuts grain and binds it in sheaves
- holds loose papers or magazines
- something used to bind separate particles together or facilitate adhesion to a surface
noun
- One who buckles something.
- (zoology) The anterior segment of the shell of a trilobite.
- (zoology) One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.
- (nautical) A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches.
- A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, held in the hand or worn on the arm (usually the left), for protecting the front of the body. In the sword and buckler play of the Middle Ages in England, the buckler was a small shield, used not to cover the body but to stop or parry blows.
- armor carried on the arm to intercept blows
noun
- A person who makes knots.
- A machine or device that makes knots.
- (pulp and paper) A screen used to remove “knots” or impurities from wood pulp in the process of making paper.
- (nautical, in compounds) A vessel capable of reaching a specified speed in knots.
- (nautical, in compounds) A wind blowing at a specified velocity in knots.
noun
- One who ties (knots, etc.).
- a worker who ties something
- A horizontal row of panels within a comic strip.
- (Australia) A (typically forested) range of hills or mountains, especially in South Australia or Tasmania; a mountain.
- A rank or grade; a stratum.
- Something that ties.
- A row or range, especially one at a higher or lower level than another.
- something that is used for tying
- a relative position or degree of value in a graded group
- any one of two or more competitors who tie one another
- one of two or more layers one atop another
verb
noun
- A pothook.
- A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
- A bishop's standard staff of office.
- A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
- A specialized staff with a semi-circular bend (a "hook") at one end used by shepherds to control their herds.
- An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
- A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
- A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
- (music) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
- a circular segment of a curve
- a long staff with one end being hook shaped
- someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
adj
verb
noun
- a person who makes things
- a machine tool for shaping metal or wood
- (agent noun) Any agent that shapes (something), whether literally or figuratively.
- (surfing) A person who designs and builds surfboards.
- (machining) A machine tool in which a single-point cutting tool mounted on a reciprocating ram is traversed across the workpiece linearly. Shapers can generate various shapes, but were most especially employed in generating flat surfaces and keyways. The shaper is nowadays obsolescent, most of its applications being served by milling machines.
noun
noun
- a worker who strings
- a long horizontal timber to connect uprights
- a member of a squad on a team
- brace consisting of a longitudinal member to strengthen a fuselage or hull
- (surfing) Wooden strip running lengthwise down the centre of a surfboard, for strength.
- Someone who threads something; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows.
- A small screw-hook to which piano strings are sometimes attached.
- (baseball, slang, 1800s) A hard-hit ball.
- (journalism) A freelance correspondent not on the regular newspaper staff, especially one retained on a part-time basis to report on events in a particular place.
- A pallet or skid used when shipping less than truckload (LTL) freight. A platform typically constructed of timber or plastic designed such that freight may be stacked on top, able to be lifted by a forklift.
- A horizontal timber that supports upright posts, or supports the hull of a vessel.
- (fishing) A cord or chain, sometimes with additional loops, that is threaded through the mouth and gills of caught fish.
- (sports) A person who plays on a particular string.
- (birdwatching) A person who deliberately states that a certain bird is present when it is not; one who knowingly misleads other birders about the occurrence of a bird, especially a rarity.
- (carpentry) The side rail supporting the rungs of a ladder or the steps of a flight of stairs.
- Someone who strings someone along.
noun
- One who makes knickknacks, toys, etc.
- (UK, slang, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) A testicle.
- (Ireland, offensive, slang) A person of lower social class; a chav, skanger, or similar.
- One of two or more pieces of bone or wood held loosely between the fingers, and struck together by moving the hand.
- (Ireland, British, ethnic slur, offensive) An itinerant person, especially one of Irish Traveller heritage.
- One who slaughters and (especially) renders worn-out livestock (especially horses) and sells their flesh, bones and hides.
- An old, worn-out horse.
- One who dismantles old ships, houses, etc. and sells their components.
- someone who buys up old horses for slaughter
- someone who buys old buildings or ships and breaks them up to recover the materials in them
verb
noun
- One who welds, that is, wields.
- A machine that a human operator uses for welding.
- A manager; an actual occupant; a land-tenant holding under the farmer or middleman.
- One who welds, that is, unites pieces of steel, aluminum, or other metals by welding.
- A robotic machine that welds automatically.
- joins pieces of metal by welding them together
noun
- someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads)
- fisherman's lure; revolves when drawn through the water
- board game equipment that consists of a dial and an arrow that is spun to determine the next move in the game
- (Australia, prison, slang) A mentally disturbed or eccentric person; weirdo.
- (fishing) A type of lure consisting of wire, a rotating blade, a weighted body, and one or more hooks.
- Agent noun of spin; someone or something who spins.
- (often vulgar, slang, film) Primarily in the adult film industry, an woman with a tiny frame, usually very thin and small-breasted.
- An ornamental hubcap that spins independently of the wheel
- (slang) A record turntable or CD player.
- (Australia, New Zealand) The coin thrower in a game of two-up.
- A device that is spun in games to choose a number or symbol.
- (pinball) A flat target mounted on an axis so that a ball passing through can make it spin around, usually awarding a certain number of points for every revolution it completes.
- (politics, slang) A spin doctor.
- (slang) A disc jockey.
- (cricket) A spin bowler.
- (Jamaica) A kind of dumpling, shaped by "spinning" it in the hands.
- Ellipsis of fidget spinner.
- (surfing) A manoeuvre in which the surfer makes a complete 360° turn while riding a surfboard.
- A dolphin (Stenella longirostris).
- (computing, graphical user interface) An input control for entering a number, with accompanying arrowed buttons that increase or decrease the value.
- A conical fairing near the hub of some aircraft propellers or turbofan fans.
- A spinneret.
- A Eurasian nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus).
noun
- someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads)
- an elderly unmarried woman
- (sometimes derogatory) A woman who has never been married, especially one past the typical marrying age according to social traditions.
- One who spins (puts a spin on) a political media story so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance; a spin doctor, spin merchant or spinmeister.
- (rare, dialectal) A spider; an insect (such as a silkworm) which spins thread.
noun
- Someone who makes things from wood.
- Someone who lives in the wood and manages it; (by extension) someone who spends time in the woods and has a strong familiarity with that environment.
- Someone who cuts down trees or cuts up, splits, and sells wood.
- a man who lives in the woods
- a man who makes things out of wood
noun
noun
- (countable) One who assembles items.
- (nanotechnology, countable) A nanodevice capable of assembling nanodevices, possibly including copies of itself, according to a plan.
- (computer languages, informal, chiefly uncountable) Assembly language.
- (programming, countable) A program that reads source code written in assembly language and produces executable machine code, possibly together with information needed by linkers, debuggers and other tools.
- a program to convert assembly language into machine language
noun
- A chain worn around the neck.
- (technology) Any encircling device or structure.
- (slang) An arrest.
- A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with the esophagus.
- (mining) A curb, or a horizontal timbering, around the mouth of a shaft.
- (mathematics) A topological neighborhood around a submanifold that can be deformed to preserve a specified condition or structure.
- (in compounds) Of or pertaining to a certain category of professions as symbolized by typical clothing.
- A part of harness designed to distribute the load around the shoulders of a draft animal.
- A similar detachable item.
- (nautical) An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope to which certain parts of rigging, as dead-eyes, are secured.
- (finance) A trading strategy using options such that there is both an upper limit on profit and a lower limit on loss, constructed through taking equal but opposite positions in a put and a call with different strike prices.
- (botany) The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem
- A decorative band or other fabric around the neckline.
- A piece of meat from the neck of an animal.
- (architecture) A collar beam.
- (architecture) A ring or cincture.
- (rail transport) A physical lockout device to prevent operation of a mechanical signal lever.
- The part of an upper garment (shirt, jacket, etc.) that fits around the neck and throat, especially if sewn from a separate piece of fabric.
- A coloured ring round the neck of a bird or mammal.
- A band or chain around an animal's neck, used to restrain and/or identify it.
- a short ring fastened over a rod or shaft to limit, guide, or secure a machine part
- necklace that fits tightly around a woman's neck
- the stitching that forms the rim of a shoe or boot
- (zoology) an encircling band or marking around the neck of any animal
- a band of leather or rope that is placed around an animal's neck as a harness or to identify it
- a band that fits around the neck and is usually folded over
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
- a figurative restraint
- anything worn or placed about the neck
verb
- (transitive) To place a collar on, to fit with one.
- (transitive) To grab or seize by the collar or neck.
- (transitive) To roll up (beef or other meat) and bind it with string preparatory to cooking.
- (law enforcement, transitive) To arrest.
- (transitive) To seize, capture or detain.
- (transitive, BDSM) To bind (a submissive) to a dominant under specific conditions or obligations.
- (transitive) To steal.
- (figuratively, transitive) To bind in conversation.
- (transitive) To preempt, control stringently and exclusively.
- To surround or encircle.
- take into custody
- furnish with a collar
- seize by the neck or collar
noun
noun
verb
- fasten or secure with chains
- connect or arrange into a chain by linking
- (computing) To be chained to another data item.
- (transitive, computing, rare, associated with Acorn Computers) To load and automatically run (a program).
- (intransitive) To link multiple items together.
- (figurative) To connect as if with a chain, due to dependence, addiction, or other feelings
- (computing) To relate data items with a chain of pointers.
- (transitive) To measure a distance using a 66-foot long chain, as in land surveying.
- (figurative) To obligate.
- (transitive) To secure someone with fetters.
- (transitive) To fasten something with a chain.
- (transitive) To obstruct the mouth of a river etc with a chain.
noun
- a unit of length
- a series of things depending on each other as if linked together
- (chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule)
- anything that acts as a restraint
- 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 linked or connected series of objects
- (business) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership
- a series of hills or mountains
- A livery collar, a chain of office.
- (algebraic topology, homological algebra, more generally) An element of a group (or module) in a chain complex.
- A unit of length, exactly equal to 22 yards, which is 4 rods or 100 links, and approximately equal to 20.12 metres; the length of a Gunter's surveying chain; the length of a cricket pitch.
- That which confines, fetters, or secures; a bond.
- A series of stores or businesses with the same brand name.
- A series of interconnected things.
- (weaving) The warp threads of a web.
- (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).
- (surveying) A series of interconnected links of known length, used as a measuring device.
- A series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal.
- (surveying) A long measuring tape.
- (mathematics, set theory, order theory) A totally ordered set, especially a totally ordered subset of a poset.
- (nautical, in the plural) Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
- (algebraic topology, originally) A formal sum of cells in a CW complex of a certain dimension k (in which case the formal sums are called k'''-chains); a formal sum of simplices or cubes of a certain dimension in a simplical complex or cubical complex (respectively).
- (organic chemistry, physical chemistry) A number of atoms in a series, which combine to form a molecule.