daisy-chainv.
/ˈdeɪzɪtʃeɪn/ 1.
a. intransitive. To form a ‘daisy chain’ of people (in a dance, etc.). Also transferred.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > arrangement in (a) row(s) or line(s > form (a) row(s) or line(s [verb (intransitive)]
rank1582
range1697
to fall in (also into) line1747
line1790
to line up1796
to toe a (also the) line (or mark, scratch, crack, trig)1813
daisy-chain1968
1968 Punch 9 Oct. 519/1 The cast leap, stamp, rock and daisychain about the stage to the exhilarating beat of Galt MacDermot's music.
1980 Outdoor Life (U.S.) Oct. (Northeast ed.) 110/2 Tarpon often ‘daisy chain’ or swim in rough circles, with one fish's nose almost touching the tail of the fish in front of it.
b. spec. in Commerce (transitive and intransitive) To inflate (the price of a commodity, esp. oil) artificially by means of a daisy chain (see sense Additions c of the noun).
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > deal in stocks and shares [verb (intransitive)] > specific operations
soften1565
to get out1728
bear1837
to rig the (stock) market1841
stag1845
cornera1860
to straddle the market1870
raid1889
to make a market1899
to job backwards1907
to mark to (the) market1925
short1959
daisy-chain1979
to pitch for ——1983
society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > deal in stocks and shares [verb (transitive)] > specific operations
subscribe1618
to take up1655
to sell out1721
to take in1721
to take up1740
pool?1780
capitalize1797
put1814
feed1818
to vote (the) stock (or shares)1819
corner1836
to sell short1852
promote1853
recapitalize1856
refund1857
float1865
water1865
margin1870
unload1870
acquire1877
maintain1881
syndicate1882
scalp1886
pyramid1888
underwrite1889
oversubscribe1891
joint-stock1894
wash1895
write1908
mark1911
split1927
marry1931
stag1935
unwind1958
short1959
preplace1966
unitize1970
bed and breakfast1974
index-link1974
warehouse1977
daisy-chain1979
strip1981
greenmail1984
pull1986
1979 Washington Post 31 May a11/4 They have been buying crude from resellers who illegally inflated the prices and supplying products to brokers whose only function was to ‘daisy chain’ the prices [i.e., raise them through a series of transactions] while the fuel was being shipped directly to the utilities.
1979 Oil & Gas Jrnl. 11 June 3 This use of middlemen has no function but to daisy-chain prices... The major companies have been able to raise the general price of fuel to its present artificially high level.
1984 Fortune 23 Jan. 49/2 The Arco lawyer emphatically denies that the company was ‘daisy-chaining with Rich, or anyone else.’
2. Electronics and Computing.
a. transitive. To join (components or devices) so as to form a single sequence, usually with the output from one member of the sequence forming the input to the next; to connect (one component or device) to another as part of such a sequence.
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > use hardware [verb (transitive)] > link
patch1937
daisy-chain1972
1972 [see daisy-chaining n. at Derivatives].
1980 D. Lewin Theory & Design Digital Computers (ed. 2) ix. 399 When the Bus Controller receives a request it acknowledges on the bus available line which is linked through to each device (daisy chained).
1981 Electronics (Internat. ed.) 10 Feb. 166/3 No. 1 card slot of an RTP7400-series subsystem..and as many as seven other equally complex subsystems can be daisy-chained to the host via the one DIOC.
1981 Electronics (Internat. ed.) 28 July 217/2 Up to eight drives..can be daisy-chained together from the TC 110.
1987 Production Engin. Mar. 48/2 Microcomputer-based controllers daisy-chained to a host were employed to control the robotic subsystem.
1989 Times 2 Mar. 36/5 Up to 256 jukeboxes could be daisy-chained to create one gigantic data store.
b. intransitive. To be capable of being daisy-chained.
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > use hardware [verb (intransitive)] > link
patch1964
daisy-chain1984
1984 Austral. Personal Computer Apr. 30/3 The keypad..comes as an optional extra that daisychains onto the Macintosh keyboard.
1994 CD-ROM World Apr. 7/2 (advt.) 18 discs that daisy chain to quickly access a whopping 126 CD-ROM discs.
Derivatives
(chiefly in sense 2 above)
daisy-chained adj.
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society > computing and information technology > network > [adjective] > connected
daisy-chained1981
1981 Electronics (Internat. ed.) 27 Jan. 139/2 The circuit can be connected between daisy-chained disk drives and the disk controller.
1989 UNIX World Sept. 140/2 Up to eight daisy-chained write-once, read-many (WORMs) can be supported for large archival requirements.
daisy-chainer n. rare a participant in a ‘daisy chain’.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > other types of sexual activity or intercourse > [noun] > involving more than two people > person
daisy-chainer1941
1941 G. Legman in G. W. Henry Sex Variants II. 1162 Daisy-chain, a spintry; a group of more than two persons—heterosexual, homosexual, or both—linked together in simultaneous sexual intercourse of any kind or combination of kinds... A person participating in a spintry is termed a daisy-chainer.
daisy-chaining n.
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society > computing and information technology > network > [noun] > ways of connecting terminals, etc.
patching1445
daisy-chaining1972
1972 Proc. AFIPS Conf. 41 721/2 Centralized Daisy Chaining is illustrated in Figure 7.
1985 Pract. Computing May 94/2 These signals are located on the same pins at all points on the bus, with no daisy-chaining or physical positioning required for any purpose.
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