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daisy-chain, v.|ˈdeɪzɪtʃeɪn|
Also daisychain and as two words.
[f. the n.]
1. a. intr. To form a ‘daisy chain’ of people (in a dance, etc.). Also transf.
1968Punch 9 Oct. 519/1 The cast leap, stamp, rock and daisychain about the stage to the exhilarating beat of Galt MacDermot's music. 1980Outdoor Life (U.S.) (Northeast ed.) Oct. 110/2 Tarpon often ‘daisy chain’ or swim in rough circles, with one fish's nose almost touching the tail of the fish in front of it.
b. spec. in Comm. (trans. and intr.) To inflate (the price of a commodity, esp. oil) artificially by means of a daisy chain (see sense *2 c of the noun).
1979Washington Post 31 May a11/4 They have been buying crude from resellers who illegally inflated the prices and supplying products to brokers whose only function was to ‘daisy chain’ the prices [i.e., raise them through a series of transactions] while the fuel was being shipped directly to the utilities. 1979Oil & Gas Jrnl. 11 June 3 This use of middlemen has no function but to daisy-chain prices... The major companies have been able to raise the general price of fuel to its present artificially high level. 1984Fortune 23 Jan. 49/2 The Arco lawyer emphatically denies that the company was ‘daisy-chaining with Rich, or anyone else.’
2. Electronics and Computing.
a. trans. To join (components or devices) so as to form a single sequence, usu. with the output from one member of the sequence forming the input to the next; to connect (one component or device) to another as part of such a sequence.
1972[implied in *daisy-chaining vbl. n. below]. 1980D. Lewin Theory & Design Digital Computers (ed. 2) ix. 399 When the Bus Controller receives a request it acknowledges on the bus available line which is linked through to each device (daisy chained). 1981Electronics (Internat. ed.) 10 Feb. 166/3 No. 1 card slot of an RTP7400-series subsystem..and as many as seven other equally complex subsystems can be daisy-chained to the host via the one DIOC. Ibid. 28 July 217/2 Up to eight drives..can be daisy-chained together from the TC 110. 1987Production Engin. Mar. 48/2 Microcomputer-based controllers daisy-chained to a host were employed to control the robotic subsystem. 1989Times 2 Mar. 36/5 Up to 256 jukeboxes could be daisy-chained to create one gigantic data store.
b. intr. To be capable of being daisy-chained.
1984Austral. Personal Computer Apr. 30/3 The keypad..comes as an optional extra that daisychains onto the Macintosh keyboard. 1994CD-ROM World Apr. 7/2 (Advt.), 18 discs that daisy chain to quickly access a whopping 126 CD-ROM discs.
So (chiefly in sense *2 above) daisy-chained ppl. a.; daisy-chainer n. (rare), a participant in a ‘daisy chain’; daisy-chaining vbl. n.
1941G. Legman in G. W. Henry Sex Variants II. 1162 Daisy-chain, a spintry; a group of more than two persons—heterosexual, homosexual, or both—linked together in simultaneous sexual intercourse of any kind or combination of kinds... A person participating in a spintry is termed a daisy-chainer. 1972Proc. AFIPS Conf. XLI. 721/2 Centralized Daisy Chaining is illustrated in Figure 7. 1981Electronics (Internat. ed.) 27 Jan. 139/2 The circuit can be connected between daisy-chained disk drives and the disk controller. 1985Practical Computing May 94/2 These signals are located on the same pins at all points on the bus, with no daisy-chaining or physical positioning required for any purpose. 1989UNIX World Sept. 140/2 Up to eight daisy-chained write-once, read-many (WORMs) can be supported for large archival requirements. |