Main

Adjective

 * 1) Principal, most important.

Derived terms

 * main drag

Noun

 * 1)  Strength.
 * 2)  The mainland.
 * 3) * 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 90:
 * The highest land on the mayne, yet it was but low, we called Keales hill, and these uninhabited Isles, Russels Isles.
 * 1) * 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
 * Tashtego's long, lean, sable hair, his high cheek bones, and black rounding eyes [...]--all this sufficiently proclaimed him an inheritor of the unvitiated blood of those proud warrior hunters, who, in quest of the great New England moose, had scoured, bow in hand, the aboriginal forests of the main.
 * 1)  The high seas.
 * 2) A large pipe or cable providing utility service to a building or area, such as water main or electric main.
 * 3)  The mainsail.

Architecture

1. When applied to any system of horizontal, vertical or continuous piping, means that part of such system to which fixtures are connected directly or through branch pipes

Derived terms

 * gas main, mains, water main

Adjectives for Main
troubled; unfattioma Die; whitening; infinite; boundless; molten; azure; pulseless; tideless; billowed; murmuring; immeasurable; moaning.

Thesaurus
Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Eurasia, Eurasian landmass, Europe, North America, South America, absolute, all-absorbing, arch, awful, banner, basic, big, big drink, biggest, blue, blue water, brine, briny, brute, capital, cardinal, central, champion, channel, chief, cock, comprehensive, conduit, consequential, considerable, continent, controlling, crazy, critical, crowning, crucial, damned, deep, dominant, dreadful, drink, duct, effort, electric cable, energy, essential, exceedingly, exhaustive, extremely, fire main, first, focal, foremost, front, full, fundamental, gas main, grand, grave, great, greatest, head, headmost, heavy, hegemonic, high sea, high seas, highest, hydrosphere, in the main, intense, irresistible, landmass, largest, larruping, leading, line, magisterial, maiden, main sea, mainland, mainly, mains, major, master, maximum, mere, might, mighty, monstrous, necessary, ocean, ocean depths, ocean main, ocean sea, out-and-out, outstanding, overriding, overruling, paramount, particular, peninsula, pipe, pipeline, plain, plenary, power, power supply, powerful, predominant, predominating, preeminent, premier, preponderant, prevailing, primal, primary, prime, principal, pure, ranking, ruling, salt sea, salt water, sea, serious, sheer, sovereign, star, stellar, strength, strong, strongest, subcontinent, supereminent, supreme, thalassa, the bounding main, the brine, the briny, the briny deep, the deep, the deep sea, the seven seas, the vasty deep, tide, topflight, topmost, total, uppermost, utter, vigor, vital, water main

Etymology 1
From main:, partially from  mægen-: (used in combined forms) from mægen:, and partially from  megn:, megenn:, both from  from. Akin to magan:. More at may.

Etymology 2
From mægen:, later also taking senses from the adjective.

Adjective

 * Arabic: (ra’īsiy)
 * Azeri: ana
 * Chinese: 首要 (shǒuyào), 重要 (zhòngyào), 主要的 (zhǔyào de)
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, , hoofdzakelijke, ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: pea-
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: მთავარი
 * German: ,
 * Greek: κυρίως
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: terutama, paling penting


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 主 (shu), 主要 (shuyō), 主な (omona)
 * Korean: 주요한 (juyohan)
 * Norwegian: hoved-
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: huvudsaklig,, , compounds with huvud
 * Telugu: ముఖ్యమైన, ప్రధానమైన
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:, , ,
 * Volapük: cifik

Noun

 * Finnish:
 * German: Hauptleitung


 * Manx: ard-phiob


 * Finnish:


 * : 主要 (zhǔyào)

Anagrams

 * Amin, iman, mani, mina, NAMI

Noun

 * 1) hand anatomy

Etymology
manus:.

Noun
main



Anagrams

 * mani, nami

Noun

 * 1) hand.
 * 2)  handball

Etymology
manus:.

Synonyms

 * louche
 * mimine
 * paluche
 * pince

Holonyms

 * bras

Meronyms

 * doigt
 * dos
 * paume
 * poignet
 * pouce

Derived terms

 * baisemain
 * mainlevée
 * mainmettre
 * mainmortable
 * mainmorte
 * mainmuable
 * tournemain

Anagrams

 * mina

Verb
(bermain)


 * 1) to play

Noun

 * 1) hand anatomy

Etymology
manus:.

Descendants

 * French:

Noun

 * 1) hand anatomy

Etymology
manus:.

Descendants

 * French: