Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun metal shackles connected by chains, used to bind hands or legs.
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- noun Plural form of
chain . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
chain .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun metal shackles; for hands or legs
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Examples
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The unfortunate Paul was dragged in chains from the sandy deserts of Mesopotamia to the most desolate places of Mount Taurus, 150 confined in a dark and narrow dungeon, left six days without food, and at length strangled, by the order of Philip, one of the principal ministers of the emperor
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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The deacon Theodosius, with the bishop and clergy, was dragged in chains from the altar to Palermo, cast into
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Mock 1I love pizza, the only difference between the chains is the tomato sauce, do it right, you da man.
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The regional expansion of the chains is all to the good.
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The regional expansion of the chains is all to the good.
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Those leaders said they were responding to what they characterized as the chains' delaying tactics when they issued the required 72-hour notice Thursday evening to cancel the contract extension under which they had been working since March.
unknown title 2011
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Those leaders said they were responding to what they characterized as the chains' delaying tactics when they issued the required 72-hour notice Thursday evening to cancel the contract extension under which they had been working since March.
SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter By ANDREW DALTON 2011
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Those leaders said they were responding to what they characterized as the chains' delaying tactics when they issued the required 72-hour notice Thursday evening to cancel the contract extension under which they had been working since March.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Those leaders said they were responding to what they characterized as the chains' delaying tactics when they issued the required 72-hour notice Thursday evening to cancel the contract extension under which they had been working since March.
The Seattle Times 2011
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Those leaders said they were responding to what they characterized as the chains' delaying tactics when they issued the required 72-hour notice Thursday evening to cancel the contract extension under which they had been working since March.
unknown title 2011
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These posts, in turn, can start “trigger chains”—in which social-media users are encouraged to react to inflammatory comments and “pick sides on topics about which we would otherwise have few opinions”—and cause “emotional contagion,” in which a person expressing an emotion leads to the “reflexive production of the same emotion by others in the same proximity.”
Jezebel and the Question of Women’s Anger Condé Nast 2023
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