something that interests you because it is important or affects you | a series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament |
something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness | a necklace made by stringing objects together |
a feeling of sympathy for someone or something | anything that acts as a restraint |
an anxious feeling | a linked or connected series of objects |
a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it | a series of things depending on each other as if linked together |
| (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 |