Chain

//ˈt͡ʃeɪn//

"Chain" in a Sentence (31 examples)

The chain of crimes are thought to have been committed by the same man.

A chain of events led to the outbreak of the war.

The large chain store created a new branch.

The dog should be on a chain.

George put a chain on the dog.

The probability of this chain of events is one in two million flights - about once every two months at current levels of air traffic.

You had better chain up the dog so that he won't bite.

The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.

I saw a chain of mountains.

The world's tropical rainforests are critical links in the ecological chain of life on the planet.

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He wore a gold chain around the neck.

The anchor is connected to the boat with a 100-metre long chain.

a chain of mountains

a chain of ideas, one leading to the next

This led to an unfortunate chain of events.

That chain of restaurants is expanding into our town.

When examined, the molecular chain included oxygen and hydrogen.

"But it's too far—must be a quarter of a mile—and I've a portmanteau to carry." […] "Garn!" shouted the guard. "Taint ten chain. […]"

We first find an approximation of the chain partition, i.e. a small but not minimum size set of chains which cover all elements of the poset.

the chains of habit

Driven down / To chains of darkness and the undying worm.

And gainſt the General we will lift our ſwords And either lanch his greedie thirſting throat, Or take him priſoner, and his chaine ſhall ſerue For Manackles, till he be ranſom’d home.

You should chain your bicycle to the railings to protect it from being stolen.

Sometimes I feel like I'm chained to this computer.

She's been chained to her principles since she was 18, it's unlikely you can convince her otherwise.

I miss when Game Of Thrones was wide open, but even then, the writers were chained to a narrative they didn’t yet know the ending of and feared straying too far from.

You don’t need to maintain state, or partition execution into different objects that then you can chain together (one executes the other on completion — chained continuations).

As the line was surveyed - a sufficient length being first chained by a surveyor, who was followed by axemen - trees had to be felled and a certain width maintained, which was specified in the contract, for drays had to follow, and the trees might have fallen upon the line and broken it down at the very outset.

How do you get one program to chain another? I want to run DrawWorks2 then !Draw but as soon as you run Drawworks2 it finishes the batch file and doesn't go on to the next instruction! Is there a way without loading one of these automatic loaders?

You can do LOAD "" or CHAIN "" to load or chain the next program if I remember correctly (it's been a loooong time since I've used a tape on an Acorn!)

Recent versions of AntiSpam no longer use the Config file but have a Settings file instead, so when I updated the Config file to chain SpamStamp it had no effect as it was a redundant file.

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