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At least the subentries under chain reflect the same form as the headword.
The general production of the book is poor: the paper has too much “see-through,” causing the type on the back of a page to interfere with the legibility; the type is too gray; the definitions are run into one another, with semicolons in place of definition numbers, making it difficult to distinguish senses and requiring one to read through a long entry before coming to the sense sought; it is almost impossible to discover where a new part of speech begins; subentries of idiomatic phrases and phrasal verbs are given the same prominence as headwords, making them easy to find but detracting from the headword treatment; and the substandard typography has created many loose lines which poor proofreading has failed to catch.
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.
If we can sort out all the details here—no mean task—it emerges that W9 's vocabulary entries include both what I earlier called main entries (like watershed ) and what I called subentries (like waterless in CED ). But it appears that Longman's headwords are only those that are, or introduce, main entries.
Both list Filofax ( Neologisms holding that the trade mark was registered in 1941, the ODNW says the early thirties), and, as expected, the latter includes several subentries (e.g.
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