英语词汇“chain piers”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

A cut-off safety device on a chainsaw, activated automatically if the chainsaw kicks back

A method or device for resolving or avoiding the difficulties created by a chain of house-buyers and -sellers each awaiting action on the part of others earlier or later in the sequence

A gang of convicts wearing leg-irons, esp chained together on an outside working party

A device for stoking a (usu industrial) furnace in which fuel is drawn into the furnace by means of a rotating chain

A letter soliciting (among other things) the sending, by the recipient, of similar letters with or without a limit to other people

A compartment at the forward end of a ship for storing the anchor chain when the anchor is not in use

A series of military or civic functionaries, each taking orders from the one immediately senior to himself

chain pier noun

A pier supported by chains like a chain bridge

chainˈplates plural noun (nautical)

Iron plates bolted below the channels on a ship, to serve as attachments for the deadeyes, through which the standing rigging or shrouds and backstays are secured

chain printer noun (computing)

A type of line printer with the characters mounted on a metal or plastic chain, forming a continuous loop

chain pump noun

A pump consisting of an endless chain, usu with discs

chain reaction noun

A process in which each reaction is in turn the stimulus of a further reaction

chain reactor noun

A nuclear reactor

chain rule noun

An arithmetical rule, so called from the terms of the problem being stated as equations, and connected, as if by a chain, so as to obtain by one operation the same result as would be obtained by a number of different operations in simple proportion
The rule for solving problems by compound proportion

chainˈsaw noun

A power saw with cutting teeth linked in an endless chain

chainˈshot noun

Two bullets or half-bullets fastened together by a chain, used formerly to destroy ships' rigging

chainˈ-smoke transitive verb and intransitive verb

To smoke (cigarettes, etc) non-stop, often lighting each from the previous one

chainˈ-smoker noun

chainˈstitch noun

A stitch in knitting or sewing resembling the links of a chain

chain store noun

One of a series of shops, esp department stores, under the same ownership or management and located in different places

chainˈwheel noun

A toothed wheel, as on a bicycle, which meshes with a chain to transmit motion

chainˈwork noun

Work looped or linked like a chain
Network

chain /chān/