Definitions for Main

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Main main

Spelling: [meyn]

IPA: /meɪn/

Main is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 40 anagrams from letters in Main (aimn).

Definitions for Main

noun

1. a principal pipe or duct in a system used to distribute water, gas, etc.
2. physical strength, power, or force:
3. the chief or principal part or point:
4. Literary. the open ocean; high sea:
5. the mainland.
6. Usually, mains. a main course in a meal:
7. a cockfighting match.
8. a river in central and W Germany, flowing W from the Bohemian Forest in N Bavaria into the Rhine at Mainz. 305 miles (490 km) long.

Idioms

1. in the main, for the most part; chiefly:

adverb

1. South Midland U.S. (chiefly Appalachian) . very; exceedingly:

adjective

1. chief in size, extent, or importance; principal; leading:
2. sheer; utmost, as strength or force:
3. of or relating to a broad expanse:
4. Grammar. syntactically independent; capable of use in isolation. Compare dependent (def 4), independent (def 14), main clause.
5. Nautical. of or relating to a mainmast. noting or pertaining to a sail, yard, boom, etc., or to any rigging belonging to a mainmast. noting any stay running aft and upward to the head of a mainmast:
6. Obsolete. having or exerting great strength or force; mighty. having momentous or important results; significant.

verb (used with or without object)

1. Slang. mainline.

Origin of Main

before 900; (noun) Middle English meyn, mayn strength, power, Old English mægen, cognate with Old Norse megin(n), megn strength; (adj.) Middle English mayn, partly Old Norse megenn, megn stro

Examples for Main

At the same time, the heaviest parts—the main fuselage, the engines and wings—sink to the bottom.

Kennedy and I pushed along slowly with the main lot of horses.

"Up the main Street, and across the drawbridge," said the soldier, goodnaturedly.

"You are evading the main point, Rushton," said the superintendent.

Sometimes, they had a backup aim if their main goal fell through as the night dragged on.

Then let the main pressure be felt by its inventors and publishers.

They even switched off their location service—one of the main perks of the program.

That they would use the drug to excess there can be no doubt, and that is the main point.

In his statement, Rigi named Naser Boledi as a main mediator between him and representatives of NATO.

Flesh encircled him at the main pool of the Paradise Hotel and Residences at Boca.