Chain and Orbit

Chain

Chain noun - A series of things linked together.

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Orbit and chain are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Orbit" instead a noun "Chain".

Nearby Words: chained, chainlet, chaining

Orbit noun - The (usually elliptical) path described by one celestial body in its revolution about another.

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Chain and orbit are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Chain" instead a noun "Orbit".

Nearby Words: orbited, orbiting, orbital

full	full chain	full orbit
long	long chain	long orbit
particular	particular chain	particular orbit
similar	similar chain	similar orbit
Other adjectives: normal, regular, original, proper, entire, successful, complicated, main, new, odd, strange, bizarre, different.

Amusingly, this is exactly what the Entei's team attack in Disgaea Dimension 2 accomplishes, via transforming itself into a chain which its partner uses to yank the moon out of orbit.

Source: Colony Drop
Then another spiked chain flies past Argorok and into the sky behind him... which drags the moon out of orbit and slams it into Argorok from behind.

Source: Exactly What I Aimed At
Remembered I Could Fly: The elevator spends a long time in orbit being pursued by a Vermicious Knid, which eventually links up with the rest of its kind to form a huge chain and manages to capture it (and the rescued space capsule).

Source: Literature / Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

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