Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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chain | Yes | No | Yes | No |
strand | Yes | No | Yes | No |
chain (noun) | strand (noun) |
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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 necklace made by stringing objects together | line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable |
anything that acts as a restraint | a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole |
a linked or connected series of objects | a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides) |
a series of things depending on each other as if linked together | a very slender natural or synthetic fiber |
(business) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership | |
(chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule) | |
a series of hills or mountains | |
a unit of length |
chain (verb) | strand (verb) |
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fasten or secure with chains | bring to the ground |
connect or arrange into a chain by linking | drive (a vessel) ashore |
leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue |