main
(mān)
[Middle English, from Old English mægen, strength.]
adjective
- Most important; principal. See synonyms at chief
- Exerted to the utmost; sheer: by main strength.
- Nautical Connected to or located near the mainmast: a main skysail.
- Grammar Of, relating to, or being the principal clause or verb of a complex sentence.
- Obsolete Of or relating to a continuous area or stretch, as of land or water.
noun
- The chief or largest part: His ideas are, in the main, impractical.
- The principal pipe or conduit in a system for conveying water, gas, oil, or other utility.
- Physical strength: fought with might and main.
- A mainland.
- The open ocean.
- Nautical
- A mainsail.
- A mainmast.
Main
(mān, mīn)
- A river rising in eastern Germany and flowing about 499 km (310 mi) generally westward to the Rhine River at Mainz.
