A number of atoms in a series, which combine to form a molecule.
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 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 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 obligate.
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 group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.
A family of sets that is closed under finite unions and differences.
A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.
A piece of food in the shape of a ring.
Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
A circular group of people or objects.
A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.
A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.
A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet or young star.
The open space in front of a racecourse stand, used for betting purposes.
The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.
A pleasant or correct sound.
An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations: an additive operation and a multiplicative operation, such that the set is an abelian group under the additive operation, a monoid under the multiplicative operation, and such that the multiplicative operation is distributive with respect to the additive operation.
A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.
A place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a boxing ring or a circus ring; hence the field of a political contest.
Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).
An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under the multiplicative operation, that is, there need not be a multiplicative identity element.
A telephone call.
A burner on a kitchen stove.
An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.
To produce (a sound) by ringing.
To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
To telephone (someone).
To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.
To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.
To ride around (a group of animals, especially catle) to keep them milling in one place; hence (intransitive), to work as a drover, to muster cattle.
to resound, reverberate, echo.
Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.
Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
To produce music with bells.
To enclose or surround.
To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
To make an incision around; to girdle; to cut away a circular tract of bark from a tree in order to kill it.
To rise in the air spirally.