verb
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Short for mainline.
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To mainly play a specific character, or side, during a game.
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He mains the same character as me in that game.
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Of a road: to convert into a main or primary road.
adjective
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Of chief or leading importance; prime, principal.
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Chief, most important, or principal in extent, size, or strength; consisting of the largest part.
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main timbers main branch of a river main body of an army
synonyms
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(of force, strength, etc.) Full, sheer, undivided.
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Big; angry.
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Belonging to or connected with the principal mast in a vessel.
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Great in size or degree; important, powerful, strong, vast.
adverb
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Exceedingly, extremely, greatly, mightily, very, very much.
Examples of main in a Sentence
His main sin appears to be his poor timing.
He left the room and ascended to the main floor.
Felipa met them in the main room downstairs.
It was a mine portal, smaller than the main entrance to the Lucky Pup.
Antoine probably wasn't the main threat in Europe.
They all enjoyed the Main Street eatery, next to the newly renovated Beaumont Hotel, the queen's-castle of the Victorian town.
As if the main object were to talk fast and not to talk sensibly.
My bed in the homeless shelter, definitely a first for me, was a pull-out in a small room behind the main hall.
He took her hand and led her out of the barracks through the back door and into the main house.
All the main line murderers, gangsters and gang bangers looked down on us sex offenders like puke on the sidewalk but the pecking order didn't stop there.
Toni trotted down the stairwell leading to the main house.
Yully trotted up to her wing and pulled a spare blanket out of the main linen closet.
Jule wasn't lucky enough for the creature on the main floor not to hear.
Driving was out of the question as the mid-morning parade, scheduled to begin in a few minutes, was forming on Main Street, which was now closed to traffic.
Platov's division was acting independently of the main army.
I was in a small town, on the main street with cars and people all around.
I made it to the circle park at the head of Main Street and drank in the sunshine on a park bench.
I crept cautiously forward until I encountered a closed door, leading, I presumed, to the main house.
The main point, however, was that they flew, and flew swiftly, if a bit unevenly, toward the rock for which they had headed.
They were nearly invisible from the main store.
It was past lunch time so the three of us dropped by The Main Street Café for a late lunch.
No, but it's the main reason.
Towards evening he told his men to ride home by the main road while he went by another way that was somewhat longer.
They were lined up as far as the eye could see on the Apian Way, the main road through Rome, as a warning to other slaves who might consider rebellion.
The main menu features pulled pork, brisket, chicken and ribs as well as salads, sandwiches and plenty of homemade sides.
Of course, it helped that the rain had stopped, but the main problem had been the obstruction.
The main chamber of the hold was as disorganized as the battle was organized.
Martineau's two main proofs yield two sets of attributes; those known as.
The concentrated activity which had begun at the Emperor's headquarters in the morning and had started the whole movement that followed was like the first movement of the main wheel of a large tower clock.
The main menu features a variety of salads, sandwiches, grilled flatbread pizzas, grilled seafood and steak and other entrees, including rotisserie chicken, beef, trout, crab cakes and ravioli.
The lunch menu has delicious appetizers, soups, salads, pizza, pasta and main entrees.
Pasta is included on every menu, but a variety of other main dishes and some interesting appetizers are also readily available at these establishments.
In winter, the best table is next to the large stone fireplace in the main dining room.
The camping facilities were secondary to the main park functions, multiple ball fields, tennis courts and twenty-four horse shoe pits, for the serious pitcher.
A pot-bellied stove in the middle of the main room provided the main heat in the two-bedroom room cottage.
Dean's suggestion about a public Internet connection a block away on Main Street was met with a dumb stare.
Dean left Bird Song on foot, passing up the temptation to drive his Jeep the short distance to the Main Street delicatessen.
He preferred land wars to the space wars and had been returning to the main craft when the ambush occurred.
The motel consisted of 40 units on two floors, ten to either side of a main entrance that led to the office and restaurant.
When they entered the main bookstore, she stopped.
Radiators should not be fixed directly on to the main heating pipe, but always on branches of smaller diameter leading from the flow pipe to one end of the radiator and back to the main return pipe from the other end; they may then be easily controlled by a valve placed on the branch from the flow pipe.
The rules of the Scribes enumerated thirty-nine main kinds of work forbidden on the Sabbath, and each of these prohibitions gave rise to new subtilties.
Or a polyp on the main stem, after having budded a second time to form a pinnule, may give rise to a third bud, which starts a new biserial FIG.
Polyp 7 has proof sense, 1 o c oduced as its first bud, 8; as its second bud, a7, motion and nutriwhich starts a uniserial pinnule; and as a third t i on, until its bud I', which starts a biserial branch (I I'-VI') medusoid nature that repeats the structure of the main stem and and organization gives off pinnules.
The main stem is indicated become scarcely by - - -, the new stem by recognizable.
The main line of the East Indian railway runs through the southern portion of the district, with a branch to Benares city; the Oudh & Rohilkhand railway through the northern portion, starting from the city; and a branch of the Bengal & North-Western railway also terminates at Benares.
With him, as with his father, the politics of the Marches had been the main consideration; his final change of side was due to jealousy of the younger Despenser, whose lordship of Glamorgan was too great for the comfort of the Bohuns in Brecon.
The restaurant offers dining at the bar, in the sidewalk cafe or the main dining room.
All main dishes come with warm bread, salad, vegetable and potato or rice.
For the main course, enjoy the massaman curry with tamarind juice, peanuts, onions and potatoes.