Talk:chain

Verb sense needed. &mdash; Hippietrail 11:37, 24 September 2006 (UTC)


 * We seem to have them now. I thought there was a 1980s computing verb meaning "load and then automatically run" (a program, probably from tape or disk). It was definitely a keyword in some BASICs. Couldn't cite it, but I suppose the richest sources would be magazines, which aren't well represented on Google Books. Equinox ◑ 17:10, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
 * (I did eventually add and cite this.) Equinox ◑ 16:50, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

Group of bobolinks
Supposedly "chain" is the collective noun for a group of bobolinks. I could only find this single book citation. Equinox ◑ 03:36, 25 January 2016 (UTC)


 * 1) * 2013, Joanna Kelly, Hooligan’s Alley (page 202)
 * Walking toward the barn, under a chain of bobolinks perched on a low-slung clothesline (their droppings, no doubt, sticking like paste to the weathered fibers), Millie thought about the idea of spending time with this gentle German.

merge
Surely hyponyms, derived terms and related terms can all be squished together? --WF on Holiday (talk) 22:34, 1 August 2017 (UTC)