What's the difference between enchain and unchain?
Enchain
Definition:
(v. t.) To bind with a chain; to hold in chains.
(v. t.) To hold fast; to confine; as, to enchain attention.
(v. t.) To link together; to connect.
Example Sentences:
(1) The absence of ionized groups is thus beneficial, thermodynamically and kinetically, to the attainment in dilute aqueous solution of an ordered conformation by the uncharged succinoglycan backbone, as allowed by the regular enchainment of its constituent sugar residues.
(2) If that sounds like a lot, even for this crew, it's because this is a double episode, enchaining two instalments that originally, in the UK, aired separately.
Unchain
Definition:
(v. t.) To free from chains or slavery; to let loose.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Britain needs to talk about the R-word: racism It is also a wakeup call to those who recognise racism only when it is played out like a scene from Django Unchained , those who think that racism has to be some vulgar incident perpetrated only by the backward, ignorant and poorly educated, those who believe that racism has to be an act, rather than a complicated and intangible framework that sets up obstacles.
(2) The Wolf of Wall Street is already the ninth-biggest 18-certificate movie at the UK box-office, behind Hannibal (£21.6m), American Beauty (£21.3m), Seven (£19.5m), Silence of the Lambs (£17.1m), Bruno (£15.8m), Django Unchained (£15.7m), Basic Instinct (£15.5m) and Fatal Attraction (£15.4m).
(3) In April, Quentin Tarantino's revenge western Django Unchained was withdrawn from cinemas minutes into its first screening; it reopened a month later with three of the goriest minutes missing and flopped.
(4) Updated at 5.23pm BST 2.20pm BST Right, I have been unchained from the desk and I am going to use this freedom to escape from the building and visit the local sandwich emporium for some much-needed nourishment.
(5) Tarantino, Django Unchained's director, had already reined in the movie's gore for the Chinese market, retouching footage to tone down the colour and bloodshed.
(6) Tarantino himself recently told a Bafta audience that the violence and horrific conditions depicted in Django Unchained were nothing compared to the historical reality.
(7) Two years ago, Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained was yanked from cinemas after censors claimed it showed scenes too violent for Chinese audiences.
(8) He could very easily have made Reservoir Dogs 2 instead of Django Unchained, and cleaned up at the box office.
(9) In 2014, four out of the nine nominated films passed, in 2013 , six out of nine passed (a bumper year boosted by Django Unchained, Life of Pi and Beasts of the Southern Wild).
(10) Django Unchained pulled from Chinese cinemas during debut screening Read more Seek McCartney is a Chinese-French co-production , with the local contribution also helping to explain why censors handed it a release spot.
(11) The remaining five – Ben Affleck's Argo , Steven Spielberg's Lincoln , Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained , Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty and Tom Hooper's Les Misérables – seem to address and express this particular year.
(12) A Sony spokesman for Tarantino said the "adjustments" to Django Unchained were "progress rather than a compromise".
(13) This spells good news for Steven Spielberg 's epic Lincoln biopic (which leads the field with seven nominations) and for Quentin Tarantino 's slavery saga Django Unchained (five nominations).
(14) Following the December release of Django Unchained , his blood-soaked spaghetti western homage, Tarantino has been drawn unwillingly into the debate over gun violence in the wake of last month's Newtown massacre.
(15) It follows his film Django Unchained in 2012, a western starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz which won Tarantino an Oscar for his screenplay – but Tarantino says that the new project is not connected.
(16) On business rates, a newly unchained Scottish parliament could institute an immediate revaluation of properties, bringing with it a higher threshold before rates are payable and allowing some businesses to escape payment altogether.
(17) 12 Years a Slave will inevitably draw comparisons with Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained , which garnered a second Oscar for the maverick film-maker earlier this year (while drawing criticism from figures such as Spike Lee for its liberal use of the "N" word).
(18) Debate about the film has turned into a major talking point in a number publications large and small, with editorials in defence and critique of Django Unchained laying out their case for readers, while one of the film's stars, Samuel L Jackson, highlighted the discomfort over the frequent use of a racial epithet in the movie when he challenged a journalist to say the word out loud.
(19) Iam a bit worried I might be a massive racist because last week at a preview screening* I laughed like a hallucinating pig several times during Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained , a preposterous cartoon romp through the laugh-a-minute world of slavery.
(20) Quentin Tarantino would go on to cast Foxx alongside Don Johnson, best known as Crockett on the original TV series, in Django Unchained.