Word

(business) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership
<noun.group> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

chain

semantic pointers

domain of synset (topic)

business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise

member meronym

chain store

hypernym

business, business concern, concern, business organization, business organisation

hyponym

apparel chain discount chain restaurant chain retail chain

a necklace made by stringing objects together
<noun.artifact> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

chain strand string

sample sentences

"a string of beads"
"a strand of pearls"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

string

semantic pointers

hypernym

necklace

a linked or connected series of objects
<noun.artifact>

chain

sample sentences

"a chain of daisies"

semantic pointers

hypernym

necklace

a series of hills or mountains
<noun.object> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

chain chain of mountains mountain chain mountain range range range of mountains

sample sentences

"the valley was between two ranges of hills"
"the plains lay just beyond the mountain range"

semantic pointers

instance hyponym

Adirondacks, Adirondack Mountains Admiralty Range Alaska Range Alleghenies, Allegheny Mountains Alps, the Alps Altai Mountains, Altay Mountains Andes Apennines Appalachians, Appalachian Mountains Atlas Mountains Australian Alps Balkans, Balkan Mountains, Balkan Mountain Range Berkshires, Berkshire Hills Black Hills Blue Ridge Mountains, Blue Ridge Cantabrian Mountains Carpathians, Carpathian Mountains Cascades, Cascade Range, Cascade Mountains Catskills, Catskill Mountains Caucasus, Caucasus Mountains Coast Range, Coast Mountains Cumberland Mountains, Cumberland Plateau Dolomite Alps Great Dividing Range, Eastern Highlands Great Smoky Mountains Green Mountains Guadalupe Mountains Himalayas, Himalaya Mountains, Himalaya Hindu Kush, Hindu Kush Mountains Karakoram, Karakoram Range, Karakorum Range, Mustagh, Mustagh Range Kunlun, Kunlan Shan, Kunlun Mountains, Kuenlun, Kuenlun Mountains Mesabi Range Mount Carmel Nan Ling Ozarks, Ozark Mountains, Ozark Plateau Pamir Mountains, the Pamirs Pyrenees Rhodope Mountains Rockies, Rocky Mountains Sacramento Mountains San Juan Mountains Sayan Mountains Selkirk Mountains sierra Sierra Madre Occidental Sierra Madre Oriental Sierra Nevada, Sierra Nevada Mountains, High Sierra Sierra Nevada St. Elias Range, St. Elias Mountains Taconic Mountains Teton Range Tien Shan, Tyan Shan Transylvanian Alps Tyrolean Alps Urals, Ural Mountains

hypernym

formation, geological formation

part meronym

massif pass, mountain pass, notch

a unit of length
<noun.quantity>

chain

semantic pointers

hypernym

linear unit, linear measure

part meronym

yard, pace link

hyponym

Gunter's chain engineer's chain nautical chain