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chain

/tʃeɪn/

US pronunciation
American sound/tʃeɪn/
chain
Syllables
1 syllable
Stress
One strong syllable
Vowel
Short i vowel
Ending
Clear final sound

US voice -> chain

Myanmar meaning

(n) (ကွင်းဆက်)သံကြိုး။ ချိန်းကြိုး။ ( ( ၁ ) ) ကြိုးစလွယ်။ ဆွဲကြိုး။ ( ၂ ) နှောင်ကြိုး။ အနှောင်အဖွဲ့။ အစဉ်အတန်း။ (ကုမ္ပဏီတစ်ခုပိုင်) ဆိုင်ခွဲများ၊ ဟိုတယ်များ။ (ရှေး) ၆၆ပေ အတိုင်းအတာ။ သံကြိုး။ (v) သံကြိုးဖြင့်ချည်သည်။

Full entry

chain /tʃeÇn/ n

၁။ (က) [U, C] (ကွင်းဆက်)သံကြိုး။
keep a dog on a chain ❍ Remember to put the chain on the door when you lock it. ❍ The prisoners were kept in chains.
(ခ) [C] ချိန်းကြိုး။
a bicycle chain (ie for transmitting power from the pedals (PEDAL ၁ ) to the wheels).
၂။ [C] ကြိုးစလွယ်။ ဆွဲကြိုး။
The mayor wore her chain of office round her neck. ❍ She wore a locket hanging on a silver chain. ❍ pull the chains (ie to FLUSH n ၂ the toilet).
၃။ [C usu pl ] (fig ) နှောင်ကြိုး။ အနှောင်အဖွဲ့။ the chains of poverty.
၄။ [C] အစဉ်အတန်း။
a chain of mountains/a mountain chain ❍ a chain of events/circumstances/ideas ❍ a human chain (ie a line of people linking arms, esp as a protest). See also food-chain
၅။ [C] (ကုမ္ပဏီတစ်ခုပိုင်) ဆိုင်ခွဲများ၊ ဟိုတယ်များ။ a chain of supermarkets/a supermarket chain.
၆။ [C] (ရှေး) ၆၆ပေ အတိုင်းအတာ။ သံကြိုး။
v ~ sb/sth (to sb/sth) ;
~ sb/sth (up) (esp passive)
သံကြိုးဖြင့်ချည်သည်။
chain (up) a dog for the night ❍ prisoners chained to a wall/each other ❍ (fig ) Too many women feel chained to the kitchen sink (ie feel that they spend all their time doing household tasks).
❏ chain-gang n (US ) သံခြေချင်းခတ် အကျဉ်းသားအလုပ် သမား အုပ်စု။ ။
❏ chain-letter n (ပွား၍ အခြားသူထံ ဆက်ပို့ရသည့်) ရွှေ ပေလွှာ။
❏ chain-mail n [U] ချပ်ဝတ်တန်ဆာ။
❏ chain reaction n (က) (techn ) ချိတ်ဆက်ဓာတ်ပြုခြင်း။ ချိတ်ဆက်တုံ့ပြန်ခြင်း။
(ခ) ကွင်းဆက်ဖြစ်ရပ်။ ကွင်းဆက်ဖြစ်ပွားမှု။
The government fear the strike may produce a chain reaction in other industries.
❏ chain-saw n သံကြိုးလွှ။
❏ chain-smoke v ဆေးလိပ်တစ်လိပ်ပြီးတစ်လိပ် ဆက်သောက် သည်။ chain-smoker n
❏ chain-store n ကုမ္ပဏီကြီးတစ်ခုက ဖွင့်ထားသော ဆိုင်ခွဲတစ်ခု။

More examples
  • There was a rusty iron chain hanging from the gate.
  • The crate was secured with a strong chain.
  • She wore a delicate gold chain around her neck.
  • [in chains] : Women prisoners were kept in chains during childbirth.
  • [chain of] : In 1910 there was a proposal for a chain of telegraph stations to link up the empire.
  • The region includes Sumatra, Java, and a chain of smaller islands extending eastwards.
  • [human chain] : Firefighters formed a human chain to carry the injured climbers to safety.
  • A polymer chain
  • [chain of] : A chain of events that eventually led to murder
  • The virus becomes weaker as it passes down the chain of infection.
  • Japan’s leading hotel chain
  • [chain of] : A chain of electrical goods shops
  • We’ve been in a chain for five months.
Synonyms
sequence, series, string, succession, procession, additory, alternation, attach, bind, bond, bracelet, cable, catena, chain up, cliched, clichéd, clinker, concatenation, confine, conglomerate, connect, connection, consecution, continuity, cornball, coupling, cumulative, enslave, familiar tune, fetter, franchise, group, handcuff, hawser, hold, immobilize, increscent, iron, isochronal, isochronous, lavaliere, like clockwork, link, lock up, locket, manacle, mildewed, moor, order, overused, pendant, platitudinal, platitudinous, progression, recurrent, restrain, restraint, row, run of the mill, set, shackle, stereotypic, stereotypical, summative, syndicate, tether, tie up, train, trammel, trite, trust, used up, used-up, warmed-over, well-worn, wornout
Antonyms
free, interruption, let go, liberate, loose, loosen, release, unfasten
Cross references
sequenceseriesstringsuccessionprocessionadditoryalternationattachbindbondbraceletcablecatenachain upclichedclichédclinkerconcatenationconfineconglomerateconnectconnectionconsecutioncontinuitycornballcouplingcumulativeenslave
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