Chain in a sentence as a noun

The lack of an overt chain of command means that power asserts itself covertly.

The problem I'd gotten chewed out for trying to surface but been told "won't fix" all the way up and down the chain of command.

Similar to spam or telemarketing or chain mail.

I'd hazard a guess to say that any motion prediction or frame deltas might actually slow the whole chain down.

I searched a bit and it appears as if 1024 is also inspired by Threes, so my game is probably the last of a long chain of clones :PThe code is also open-source.

Even if they are not insolvent the chain of events that would have to take place to result in this counting as taxable income is highly unlikely.

Epic: "But the chain of logic from 'Linux is about choice' to 'ship everything and let the user chose how they want their sound to not work' starts with fallacy and ends with disaster.

Chain in a sentence as a verb

The pseudocode below is not a great example because, to keep it brief, the control flow is so simple that it could have been just a chain of method calls on anonymous return values.

You might have this great idea but only 2 people are willing to work the occasional weekend on it; are you about to start an email chain calling them all dogshit coders?Linus doesn't have that problem.

Bitcoin is built on a chain of blocks, each of which contains a set of transactions, the hash of the previous block, and a cryptographic proof-of-work which takes a lot of computing power to construct.

Some folks will know, and some folks will think they know, but having been high enough in the food chain to directly witness some executive shifts like this first hand, and to see how they got spun to the public and to others.

Usually in aircraft accidents there's a chain of events, but in this case there were so many possible contributing causes that other than having better pitots that didn't freeze over, solving any one other problem may not have broken the chain.

"Climbing the value chain," the MBAs call it -- start off as a provider of outsourced services to companies whose executives' noses are too high in the air to do their dirty work themselves anymore, and then slowly shoulder those companies out of the way by establishing direct relationships with their customers at a lower cost.

Chain definitions

noun

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

See also: concatenation

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

noun

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

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

noun

anything that acts as a restraint

noun

a unit of length

noun

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

See also: Chain

noun

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

See also: range

noun

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

noun

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

See also: string strand

verb

connect or arrange into a chain by linking

verb

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