The difference between Chain and Link
When used as nouns, chain means a series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal, whereas link means a connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
When used as verbs, chain means to fasten something with a chain, whereas link means to connect two or more things.
check bellow for the other definitions of Chain and Link
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Chain as a noun:
A series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal.
Examples:
"He wore a gold chain around the neck''."
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Chain as a noun:
A series of interconnected things.
Examples:
"a chain of mountains"
"a chain of ideas, one leading to the next"
"This led to an unfortunate chain of events''."
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Chain as a noun:
A series of stores or businesses with the same brand name.
Examples:
"That chain of restaurants is expanding into our town''."
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Chain as a noun (chemistry):
A number of atoms in a series, which combine to form a molecule.
Examples:
"When examined, the molecular chain included oxygen and hydrogen''."
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Chain as a noun (surveying):
A series of interconnected links of known length, used as a measuring device.
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Chain as a noun (surveying):
A long measuring tape.
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Chain as a noun:
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.
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Chain as a noun (mathematics, set theory, order theory):
A totally ordered set, especially a totally ordered subset of a poset.
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Chain as a noun (British):
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).
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Chain as a noun:
That which confines, fetters, or secures; a bond.
Examples:
"the chains of habit"
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Chain as a noun (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.
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Chain as a noun (weaving):
The warp threads of a web.
Examples:
"rfquotek Knight"
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Chain as a verb (transitive):
To fasten something with a chain.
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Chain as a verb (intransitive):
To link multiple items together.
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Chain as a verb (transitive):
To secure someone with fetters.
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Chain as a verb (transitive):
To obstruct the mouth of a river etc with a chain.
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Chain as a verb (figurative):
To obligate.
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Chain as a verb (computing):
To relate data items with a chain of pointers.
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Chain as a verb (computing):
To be chained to another data item.
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Chain as a verb (transitive):
To measure a distance using a 66-foot long chain, as in land surveying.
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Chain as a verb (transitive, computing, rare, associated with {{w, Acorn Computers):
}} To load and automatically run (a program).
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Link as a noun:
A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
Examples:
"The mayor’s assistant serves as the link to the media."
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Link as a noun:
One element of a chain or other connected series.
Examples:
"The third link of the silver chain needs to be resoldered."
"The weakest link."
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Link as a noun:
Examples:
"The link on the page points to the sports scores."
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Link as a noun (computing):
The connection between buses or systems.
Examples:
"A by-N-link is composed of N lanes."
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Link as a noun (mathematics):
A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
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Link as a noun (Sussex):
a thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.
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Link as a noun (figurative):
an individual person or element in a
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Link as a noun:
Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.
Examples:
"a link of horsehair"
"rfquotek Mortimer"
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Link as a noun:
A sausage that is not a patty.
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Link as a noun (kinematics):
Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, such as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.
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Link as a noun (engineering):
Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (in steam engines) the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.
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Link as a noun (surveying):
The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in length.
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Link as a noun (chemistry):
A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
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Link as a noun (plural):
The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream.
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Link as a verb (transitive):
To connect two or more things.
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Link as a verb (intransitive, of a Web page):
To contain a hyperlink to another page.
Examples:
"My homepage links to my wife's."
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Link as a verb (transitive, Internet):
To supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.
Examples:
"Haven't you seen his Web site? I'll link you to it."
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Link as a verb (transitive, Internet):
To post a hyperlink to.
Examples:
"Stop linking those unfunny comics all the time!"
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Link as a verb (transitive):
To demonstrate a correlation between two things.
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Link as a verb (compilation):
To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable.
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Link as a noun (obsolete):
A torch, used to light dark streets.
Examples:
"rfquotek Shakespeare"
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Link as a verb (Scotland, intransitive):
To skip or trip along smartly; to go quickly.