Chain-letter

Definition

chain /tʃeÇn/ n ၁။ (က) [U, C] (ကြင္းဆက္)သံႀကိဳး။ 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] ခ်ိန္းႀကိဳး။ a bicycle chain (ie for transmitting power from the pedals (PEDAL ၁ ) to the wheels). ၂။ [C] ႀကိဳးစလြယ္။ ဆြဲႀကိဳး။ 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 ) ေႏွာင္ႀကိဳး။ အေႏွာင္အဖြဲ႕။ the chains of poverty. ၄။ [C] အစဥ္အတန္း။ 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] (ကုမၸဏီတစ္ခုပိုင္) ဆိုင္ခြဲမ်ား၊ ဟိုတယ္မ်ား။ a chain of supermarkets/a supermarket chain. ၆။ [C] (ေရွး) ၆၆ေပ အတိုင္းအတာ။ သံႀကိဳး။ v ~ sb/sth (to sb/sth) ; ~ sb/sth (up) (esp passive) သံႀကိဳးျဖင့္ခ်ည္သည္။ 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 ) သံေျခခ်င္းခတ္ အက်ဥ္းသားအလုပ္ သမား အုပ္စု။ ။ ❏ chain-letter n (ပြား၍ အျခားသူထံ ဆက္ပို႔ရသည့္) ေရႊ ေပလႊာ။ ❏ chain-mail n [U] ခ်ပ္ဝတ္တန္ဆာ။ ❏ chain reaction n (က) ( techn ) ခ်ိတ္ဆက္ဓာတ္ျပဳျခင္း။ ခ်ိတ္ဆက္တံု႔ျပန္ျခင္း။ (ခ) ကြင္းဆက္ျဖစ္ရပ္။ ကြင္းဆက္ျဖစ္ပြားမႈ။ The government fear the strike may produce a chain reaction in other industries. ❏ chain-saw n သံႀကိဳးလႊ။ ❏ chain-smoke v ေဆးလိပ္တစ္လိပ္ၿပီးတစ္လိပ္ ဆက္ေသာက္ သည္။ chain-smoker n ❏ chain-store n ကုမၸဏီႀကီးတစ္ခုက ဖြင့္ထားေသာ ဆိုင္ခြဲတစ္ခု။

Examples

1. There was a rusty iron chain hanging from the gate.
2. The crate was secured with a strong chain.
3. She wore a delicate gold chain around her neck.
4. [in chains] : Women prisoners were kept in chains during childbirth.
5. [chain of] : In 1910 there was a proposal for a chain of telegraph stations to link up the empire.
6. The region includes Sumatra
7. Java
8. and a chain of smaller islands extending eastwards.
9. [human chain] : Firefighters formed a human chain to carry the injured climbers to safety.
10. A polymer chain
11. [chain of] : A chain of events that eventually led to murder
12. The virus becomes weaker as it passes down the chain of infection.
13. Japan’s leading hotel chain
14. [chain of] : A chain of electrical goods shops
15. We’ve been in a chain for five months.