ADJ
- long
- She wore a long gold chain round her neck
- rusty
- bicycle
- daisy, paper
CHAIN + NOUN
- mail (= armour made of chains)
PREP
- in ~s
- The prisoner was led away in chains
- off sb's/the ~
- Let the dog off its chain
- on a/the ~
- They kept the dog on a chain all day long
PHRASES
- a chain of office
- The mayor was wearing his chain of office
- a chain on the door
- Put the chain on the door before you go to bed
- a link in the chain
VERB + CHAIN
- form
- The people formed a human chain to pass the supplies up the beach
PREP
- ~ of
- a chain of volcanic islands
PHRASES
- a chain of command (= a system by which instructions are passed from one person to another)
ADJ
- big, large
- small
- hotel, supermarket, etc.
PREP
- ~ of
- a chain of clothes shops
PHRASES
- part of a chain
- This hotel is part of a large chain
ADJ
- complex
- the complex chain of events that led to the war
- unbroken
- There has been an unbroken chain of great violinists in the family
- causal
- food
- efforts to ensure that dioxins do not enter the food chain