chain
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7.0
- noun
- /tʃeɪn/
:
cordillera
- The beautiful mountain chain stretched for miles, offering breathtaking views at every turn.
- mountain chain
- chain of islands
- Himalayan chain
It's an island chain, a bunch of islands that make up the Maldives.
- It's an island chain, a bunch of islands that make up the Maldives.
- You know, we, we spent a lot of time on this deserted island and the Hawaiian island chain.
Examples
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The Venezuelan Andes, the northernmost extension of the Andean mountain chain, illustrate an evolving regional imagination.
Academic text (1996) -
Heart-stopping vistas of rolling tundra pay homage to the rugged chain of visual pearls that comprise the Alaska Range.
Academic text (1996) -
I just found a chain of islands that we can sail to after New Zealand.
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It's an island chain, a bunch of islands that make up the Maldives.
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All the islands in the chain are actually the tips of a sub-oceanic mountain range.
Academic text (2004) -
There's another chain of islands all alone in the middle of the Pacific Ocean that is confronted by these very same challenges.
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Taken together with the rivers, lakes, and mountain chains, they comprise a lovely homeland.
Fiction book (2002) -
Ahead lay South Pass, a serpent-toothed notch in a chain of volcanic peaks poking through the white cloud plain.
Fiction book (1998) -
Midway is the most northwestern of the Hawaiian chain of islands, 1,200 miles from Honolulu.
Academic text (1999) -
A 4,000-mile-long chain of Good Samaritans standing hand in hand, through fields of grain, past purple mountains, and across fruited plains, from sea to shining sea.
Synonyms
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2.5
A connected line of hills or mountains
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1.8
A long line of connected mountains that forms a high area
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2.3
A long line of high land with many peaks joined together
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2.9
A long line of high land with many connected peaks
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3.0
A line of connected mountains or hills
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7.9
A long group of connected mountain ranges, like the Andes in South America
Idioms
Compounds
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3.5
A system in an organization where instructions move from people at the top to people below
- Specialized
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4.5
A process in which one nuclear event makes more nuclear events happen, keeping the reaction going
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2.4
A store that is part of a group owned by the same company and sells the same goods
- Specialized
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4.1
A series of chemical or nuclear reactions in which one reaction makes the next start
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3.4
A heavy chain or strong rope that connects a boat to the metal piece that holds it in place
- Texting
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3.5
An email that asks you to forward it to many people, often with threats or promises
- Specialized
A genetic illness that makes urine smell like maple syrup and can damage the brain in young children
- Archaic
A fast, noisy machine that hits metal letters against paper to make many pages of text
- Specialized
A machine that makes nuclear energy by splitting atoms in a controlled chain reaction
- Specialized
A line of loops made with thread used in embroidery or crochet to make a chain pattern on fabric
- Specialized
A hand tool with a chain loop that grips and turns pipes or other round things
- US
A protective shirt made of small metal rings linked together, worn by knights and soldiers
- Specialized
A fern with long leaves that have chainlike rows of small spore cases underneath
- Specialized
A long series of atoms joined together that forms part of a molecule like in plastic
- Specialized
A very large group of atoms joined together in a long chain like in proteins or plastics
A range of hills in northern England that separates rivers flowing to different coasts
- Archaic
A line of towers with moving shutters that send messages people can see over long distances
- Specialized
A North American plant with chain-like leaves that grows in wetlands and wet woods
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Etymology
Chain comes from the Latin catena 'chain', and a chain of mountains is a line of peaks joined together, like the connected links of a long chain.