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In the OUP system, chain-armour, chain bridge, chain drive, chain-gang, chain-gear, chain-letter, chain-link, chain-mail, chain reaction, chain-saw, chain-smoker, chain-stitch, chain store, chain-wale , and chain-wheel are all entered as subentries under chain.
A chain-stitch seam is strong and can be produced more quickly than a lockstitch seam.
The felled seam commonly used for the inseam of jeans comes from a two-needle chain-stitch machine.
The most naive speaker of English realizes, without going into the details of their syntactosemantic relationships, that chain-armour and chainmail do not bear the same relationship to chain as chain-gang, chain-letter , and chain-stitch , that the chain in chain reaction is different from that in chain store (not `a store where one buys chains') and in chain-smoker (not `a person who smokes chains'), and that while chain drive and chain-saw are related because both are driven by chains, the use of chain in chain-link and chain-mail is semantically misleading, for the chief characteristic of a chain is its “one-dimensionality” while chain-link and chain-mail are, of course, two-dimensional--creating what might be considered a bent metaphor.
If there is any justification for submerging them, then it must be that there is a semantic category of chain that suggests `two-dimensional interlacing' (in contrast to linear interlocking), another that suggests the notion of `interconnected sequence' (which would take care of chain-smoker, chain reaction, chain-stitch , etc.), and other describable semantic reflexes.
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