To obligate.
To link multiple items together.
To connect as if with a chain, due to dependence, addiction, or other feelings
To measure a distance using a 66-foot long chain, as in land surveying.
To relate data items with a chain of pointers.
To obstruct the mouth of a river etc with a chain.
To fasten something with a chain.
To secure someone with fetters.
To load and automatically run (a program).
To be chained to another data item.
A series of interconnected links of known length, used as a measuring device.
A series of stores or businesses with the same brand name.
A number of atoms in a series, which combine to form a molecule.
A unit of length equal to 22 yards. The length of a Gunter's surveying chain. The length of a cricket pitch. Equal to 20.12 metres, 4 rods, or 100 links.
That which confines, fetters, or secures; a bond.
A series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal.
Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
A long measuring tape.
A totally ordered set, especially a totally ordered subset of a poset.
A sequence of linked house purchases, each of which is dependent on the preceding and succeeding purchase (said to be "broken" if a buyer or seller pulls out).
A livery collar, a chain of office.
The warp threads of a web.
A series of interconnected things.
To place abreast, or in a line.
To have a ranking.
To take rank of; to outrank.
To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.
A hierarchical level in an organization such as the military.
One of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number).
The maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.
The maximum quantity of D-linearly independent elements of a module (over an integral domain D).
The size of any basis of a given matroid.
One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, or quality.
The level of one's position in a class-based society.
The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor.
In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.
A level in a scientific taxonomy system.
A category of people, such as those who share an occupation or belong to an organisation.
A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers.
Strong in growth; growing with vigour or rapidity, hence, coarse or gross.
Complete, used as an intensifier (usually negative, referring to incompetence).
Strong to the senses; offensive; noisome.
Having a very strong and bad taste or odor.
Causing strong growth; producing luxuriantly; rich and fertile.
Suffering from overgrowth or hypertrophy; plethoric.
Strong of its kind or in character; unmitigated; virulent; thorough; utter (used of negative things).
Gross, disgusting.