ch
/t͡ʃ/ · noun
Meaning
- 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.
- A number of atoms in a series, which combine to form a molecule.
- A series of interconnected links of known length, used as a measuring device.
- A long measuring tape.
- The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks.
- The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
- The navigable part of a river.
- A narrow body of water between two land masses.
- Something through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting.
- A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
- The wale of a sailing ship which projects beyond the gunwale and to which the shrouds attach via the chains. One of the flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of the bulwarks.
- The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical subject, of a sentence.
- The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical object, of a sentence.
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