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succession
English
Etymology
From Old French succession, from Latin successio.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /s?k?s??.?n/
Noun
succession (countable and uncountable, plural successions)
- An act of following in sequence.
- A sequence of things in order.
- A passing of royal powers.
- A group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order.
- A race or series of descendants.
- (agriculture) Rotation, as of crops.
- A right to take possession.
- (historical) In Roman and Scots law, the taking of property by one person in place of another.
- (obsolete, rare) The person who succeeds to rank or office; a successor or heir.
Synonyms
- (an act of following in sequence): See Thesaurus:posteriority
- (a sequence of things in order): See Thesaurus:sequence
Derived terms
- successional
- successionary
Related terms
- successive
Translations
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin successio, successionem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /syk.s?.sj??/
Noun
succession f (plural successions)
- succession
- Series
- Inheritance, as in the passing of possessions from a deceased person to his or her inheritors
Derived terms
- droits de succession
Further reading
- “succession” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
succession From the web:
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chain
English
Etymology
From Middle English cheyne, chaine, from Old French chaine, chaene (“chain”), from Latin cat?na (“chain”), from Proto-Indo-European *kat- (“to braid, twist; hut, shed”). Doublet of catena.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t??e?n/
- Rhymes: -e?n
Noun
chain (plural chains)
- A series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal.
- A series of interconnected things.
- A series of stores or businesses with the same brand name.
- (chemistry) A number of atoms in a series, which combine to form a molecule.
- (surveying) A series of interconnected links of known length, used as a measuring device.
- (surveying) A long measuring tape.
- A unit of length equal to 22 yards. The length of a Gunter's surveying chain. The length of a cricket pitch. Equal to 20.12 metres, 4 rods, or 100 links.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter X, p. 177, [1]
- "But it's too far—must be a quarter of a mile—and I've a portmanteau to carry." […]
- "Garn!" shouted the guard. "Taint ten chain. […] "
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter X, p. 177, [1]
- (mathematics, set theory, order theory) A totally ordered set, especially a totally ordered subset of a poset.
- 2003, Jeremy P. Spinrad, Efficient Graph Representations, American Mathematical Society, page 108,
- We first find an approximation of the chain partition, i.e. a small but not minimum size set of chains which cover all elements of the poset.
- 2003, Jeremy P. Spinrad, Efficient Graph Representations, American Mathematical Society, page 108,
- (Britain) A sequence of linked house purchases, each of which is dependent on the preceding and succeeding purchase (said to be "broken" if a buyer or seller pulls out).
- That which confines, fetters, or secures; a bond.
- (nautical, in the plural) Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
- (weaving) The warp threads of a web.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
Synonyms
- (series of interconnected rings or links): rackle
- (series of interconnected things): See also Thesaurus:sequence
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
chain (third-person singular simple present chains, present participle chaining, simple past and past participle chained)
- (transitive) To fasten something with a chain.
- (figuratively) To connect as if with a chain, due to dependence, addiction, or other feelings}}
- (intransitive) To link multiple items together.
- (transitive) To secure someone with fetters.
- (transitive) To obstruct the mouth of a river etc with a chain.
- (figuratively) To obligate.
- (computing) To relate data items with a chain of pointers.
- (computing) To be chained to another data item.
- (transitive) To measure a distance using a 66-foot long chain, as in land surveying.
- (transitive, computing, rare, associated with Acorn Computers) To load and automatically run (a program).
- 1996, "Mr D Walsh", Running two programs from a batch file (on newsgroup comp.sys.acorn.misc)
- How do you get one program to chain another? I want to run DrawWorks2 then !Draw but as soon as you run Drawworks2 it finishes the batch file and doesn't go on to the next instruction! Is there a way without loading one of these automatic loaders?
- 1998, "Juan Flynn", BBC software transmitted on TV - how to load? (on newsgroup comp.sys.acorn.misc)
- You can do LOAD "" or CHAIN "" to load or chain the next program if I remember correctly (it's been a loooong time since I've used a tape on an Acorn!)
- 2006, "Richard Porter", SpamStamp double headers (on newsgroup comp.sys.acorn.apps)
- Recent versions of AntiSpam no longer use the Config file but have a Settings file instead, so when I updated the Config file to chain SpamStamp it had no effect as it was a redundant file.
- 1996, "Mr D Walsh", Running two programs from a batch file (on newsgroup comp.sys.acorn.misc)
Derived terms
- unchain
- chain up
Translations
References
- chain in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- chain in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- OED 2nd edition 1989
Further reading
- chain on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams
- Anich, Chian, China, china
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ai?n/
Adjective
chain
- Aspirate mutation of cain.
Mutation
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- what chainsaws were originally used for
- what chain is hampton inn
- what chain is hyatt part of
- what chains does kroger own
- what chains fit my car
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