Main

Definition: Main

Main

Adjective

1. Most important element; "the chief aim of living"; "the main doors were of solid glass"; "the principal rivers of America"; "the principal example"; "policemen were primary targets".

2. (grammar) of a clause; able to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence; "the main (or independent) clause in a complex sentence has at least a subject and a verb".

3. Of force; of the greatest possible intensity; "by main strength".

Noun

1. Any very large body of (salt) water.

2. A principal pipe in a system that distributes water or gas or electricity or that collects sewage.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "main" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Mechanical Engineering

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

MAIN

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Main

Conduit

Noun: conduit, channel, duct, watercourse, race; head race, tail race; abito, aboideau, aboiteau, bito; acequia, acequiador, acequiamadre; arroyo; adit, aqueduct, canal, trough, gutter, pantile; flume, ingate, runner; lock-weir, tedge; vena; dike, main, gully, moat, ditch, drain, sewer, culvert, cloaca, sough, kennel, siphon; piscina; pipe. (tube); funnel; tunnel. (passage); water pipe, waste pipe; emunctory, gully hole, artery, aorta, pore, spout, scupper; adjutage, ajutage; hose; gargoyle; gurgoyle; penstock, weir; flood gate, water gate; sluice, lock, valve; rose; waterworks.

Importance

Paramount, essential, vital, all-absorbing, radical, cardinal, chief, main, prime, primary, principal, leading, capital, foremost, overruling; of vital; importance.

Ocean

Noun: sea, ocean, main, deep, brine, salt water, waves, billows, high seas, offing, great waters, watery waste, "vasty deep"; wave, tide,. (water in motion).

Opening

Way, path; thoroughfare; channel; passage, passageway; tube, pipe; water pipe; air pipe; vessel, tubule, canal, gut, fistula; adjutage, ajutage; ostium; smokestack; chimney, flue, tap, funnel, gully, tunnel, main; mine, pit, adit, shaft; gallery.

Crosswords: Main

French (duke, hand), German (main), Indonesian (perform), Turkish (rhomb), Welsh (fine, slender, thin).

This part didn't concern me. The main problem with Mark was that he was intimidating, and he had a tendency to snap (S.L.C. Punk!; writing credit: James Merendino.)

The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don't want to do. (Wall Street; writing credit: Stanley Weiser and Oliver Stone. Starring Charlie Sheen as Bud Fox, Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko, and Martin Sheen as Carl Fox.)

Main engines now connected to Teletron 1. (Beast Wars: Transformers; writing credit: Bob Forward; Lawrence G. DiTillio)

Peter, as my devoted houseboy, what will be your main function (The Monkees; writing credit: Dee Caruso; Gerald Gardner)

I am the main dish of the day. May I interest you in parts of my body (The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy; writing credit: Douglas Adams; John Lloyd)

The main eveeeeeeeeeeent (THE MAIN EVENT/FIGHT; performing artist: Barbra Streisand)

Want you to get it on I'm your main man (Rock In A Hard Place (Cheshire Cat); performing artist: Aerosmith)

Now Main Street's whitewashed windows and vacant stores (MY HOMETOWN; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen)

Sun's comin' up comin' up down on Main Street (Cold Day In July; performing artist: Dixie Chicks)

I am a lineman for the county and I drive the main road (Wichita Lineman; performing artist: Glen Campbell; writing credit: Jimmy Webb)

Life lesson: The main accomplishment of almost all organized protests is to annoy people who are not in them. (references; author: unknown)

You work for a defense contractor if the main topic of conversation is where the next job is or who is being laid off. (references; author: unknown)

The Main Event (1999)

Montreal Main (1974)

Frank Sinatra: The Main Event (1974)

La Main à couper (1974)

Woh Main Nahin (1974)

Everybody Plays the Fool (performing artist: Main Ingredient)

Just Don't Want To Be Lonely (performing artist: Main Ingredient)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Main Street and Main Incorporated: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The 2001 Report on Main Meal & Family Pizzas: World Market Segmentation by City (reference)

• The 2001 Long-Run Global Growth Prospects for Ambient Ready, Dry Main Meals: A Physioeconomic Perspective (reference)

• The World Market for Light Vessels, Fire-Floats, Dredgers, Floating Cranes and Other Vessels without Navigation As Their Main Function, Floating Docks, and Drilling Platforms: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• The Spam Cookbook: Recipes from Main Street (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Chirurgie De La Main (reference)

• Fait Main (reference)

• Main Economic Indicators = Principaux Indicateurs Economiques (reference)

• Main Line Life (reference)

• Main Line Today (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Critters 2: The Main Course (reference)

• Frank Sinatra: The Main Event (reference)

• The Main Event (reference)

• The Shop On Main Street - Criterion Collection (reference)

• Modern Main Street U.S.A. (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Exile on Main Street (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• AS5350 512MB MAIN SDRAM.UPGRG (reference)

• SB-00 MAIN. LICENSE SINGLE 3000 (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• View-Pak W0408ML1125UA Siemens Outdoor Main Lug (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

This shows the south entrance of the Clinical Center circa 1982 when the main entrance faced south. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

This is a scanning electron microscope image from normal circulating human blood. One can see red blood cells, several white blood cells including lymphocytes, a monocyte, a neutrophil, and many small disc-shaped platelets. Red cells are nonnucleated, and contain hemoglobin, containing iron an important protein which allows the cell to carry oxygen to other parts of the body. They also carry away carbon dioxide from the lungs. The infection-fighting white blood cells, are classified in 2 main groups: granular and agranular. Granulocytes are formed in bone marrow, agranulocytes are produced by lymph nodes and spleen. There are two types of agranulocytes: lymphocytes, fight disease by producing antibodies and thus destroying foreign material, and monocytes. Platelets are tiny cells formed in bone marrow and are necessary for blood clotting. Credit: Bruce Wetzel (photographer). Harry Schaefer (phot.

With slight magnification, the main body divisions and gross morphological characteristics of mosquito larvae can be observed. In this manner, scientists can quickly identify larvae in the field, rather than returning to the laboratory. Credit: CDC.

The main entrance for the Roybal campus of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), located in Atlanta, Georgia, Buildings 1 and 2. Credit: CDC.

Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) Test Firing. Credit: NASA.

Shuttle Main Engine Firing in Gimbal Test. Credit: NASA.

South side of Main Street Bureau of Commercial Fisheries building on left. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Great Caspar Signal - built around tree trunk Note boatswain chair transporting man to top 135-foot signal --- main wood scaffold supports instrument Tree trunk supports small scaffolding and observer at top Western terminus of 39th Parallel Survey. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Bayou Lafourche was the main channel of the Mississippi River a few thousand years ago. As river bed fills, the river changes course seeking a steeper slope to the sea. If allowed to follow its natural cycle, the Mississippi River would be in the process of changing its course into the bed of the Atchafalaya River. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Strolling down main street of the Oliktok Point Camp Snow plows cover entrances to buildings similar to more urban areas. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And therefore he that will look into the history of England, will find, that prerogative was always largest in the hands of our wisest and best princes; because the people, observing the whole tendency of their actions to be the public good, contested not what was done without law to that end: or, if any human frailty or mistake (for princes are but men, made as others) appeared in some small declinations from that end; yet 'twas visible, the main of their conduct tended to nothing but the care of the public. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

In this case the first stanza describes the two main words

Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason why he had had such a wild and successful life that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.

When, a few minutes afterwards, the stage started off for Lagny, it did not overtake him in the main street of Chelles

On week days he did messages between the house in Carysfort Avenue and those shops in the main street of the town with which the family dealt

They thus directed, we will follow In the main battle, whose puissance on either side Shall be well winged with our chiefest horse

Got main bearings big as a cantaloupe

As if the main object were to talk fast and not to talk sensibly

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Yes. There are two main types. (references)

The ventricles are the heart's main pumping chambers. (references)

Diarrhea is the main symptom of short bowel syndrome. (references)

Business

Germany is Portugal's main supplier. (references)

Main purchasers have been large banks. (references)

Farmers, however, are the main clients. (references)

Children

Mozambique

Outside the main cities where there are fewer secondary schools, and where boarding is required for attendance, the number of female students drops significantly. (references)

Brazil

In the city of Rio de Janeiro, the disabled have little or no access to buses (the main public transportation), subway, phone booths, and many other public facilities. (references)

Austria

Each provincial government and the federal Ministry for Youth and Family Affairs has an "Ombudsperson for Children and Adolescents" whose main function is to resolve complaints about violations of children's rights. (references)

Civil Liberties

Haiti

Oreus was accosted while driving down the main Port-au-Prince road of Delmas. (references)

Botswana

The circulation of privately owned print media continues to be limited mostly to the main cities and towns. (references)

Cyprus

In May 2000, Turkish Cypriot authorities lowered visa fees at the main Nicosia checkpoint to $1.55 (1 Cyprus pound). (references)

Economic History

Palau

Tourism is Palau's main industry. (references)

Norway

All main lines in Norway are digital. (references)

Nepal

Rice and wheat are the main food crops. (references)

Human Rights

Azerbaijan

TB continued to be the main cause of death in prisons. (references)

Sri Lanka

In July the LTTE attacked Colombo's main airbase and international airport. (references)

Bangladesh

For 11 months, police did not arrest Taher or his sons, the main defendants in the case. (references)

Indigenous People

Mexico

Their trip, which included a 2-day congress of indigenous people culminated in a meeting in the main square of Mexico City with some 100,000 supporters in attendance. (references)

Australia

The Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs, in conjunction with the elected Aboriginal and Torres Straits Islander Commission (ATSIC), has the main responsibility for initiating, coordinating, and monitoring all governmental efforts to improve the quality of life of indigenous people. (references)

Minorities

Croatia

In April a gang of skinheads beat a teenage Romani boy at Zagreb's main railway station. (references)

Political Economy

Mauritania

Fish and iron ore are the country's main export-earners. (references)

PHILIPPINES

Open market operations serve as the main policy tool to control money supply. (references)

Venezuela

The Metropolitan Police is the main civilian police force in and around Caracas. (references)

Political Rights

Cape Verde

The MPD and the Democratic Renovation Party are the main opposition parties. (references)

East Timor

This was taken to be a positive sign by some of the main women's rights organizations in East Timor. (references)

Mauritius

These fishermen may vote on the main island provided they are registered and physically present on election day. (references)

Trade

Argentina

Below, some of the main ones are given. (references)

Greece

Banks constitute the main source of financing. (references)

Argentina

On its coast lies the main port of Golfo San Jorge. (references)

Travel

Argentina

Two main airports serve Buenos Aires. (references)

Guatemala

Crime: The main security threat in Guatemala is street crime. (references)

Finland

Potatoes are a main staple and accompany most evening dishes. (references)

Women

Seychelles

Participants in the NGO survey stated that alcohol was one of the main causes of domestic violence. (references)

Pakistan

The Commission found that the main victims of the Hudood Ordinances are poor women who are unable to defend themselves against slanderous charges. (references)

Iceland

The sale of sex for money is not illegal per se, but it is against the law for someone to engage in prostitution as his or her main source of income. (references)

Worker Rights

Korea

In June workers at the two main airlines held a strike. (references)

Mauritius

In July police broke up a prostitution ring involving adolescents in the north of the main island. (references)

Armenia

Young women and girls from socially vulnerable groups all over Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh are the main targets of traffickers. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "main": area of main effort ♦ bustle main offtake ♦ by main force ♦ By main strength ♦ coup de main ♦ electric main ♦ eye to the main chance ♦ Fire main ♦ For the main ♦ Forcing main ♦ frankfurt am main ♦ frankfurt on the main ♦ gas main ♦ have an eye to the main chance ♦ have the main say in smth. ♦ his main vice is smoking ♦ Hydraulic main ♦ in the main ♦ lead the debate to the main subject ♦ look after the main chance ♦ main activity ♦ main aerodrome ♦ main anchor ♦ main attack ♦ main audio channel ♦ main battle forces ♦ main battle tank ♦ Main beam ♦ main blow ♦ main body ♦ Main boom ♦ main bottom ♦ main brace ♦ main building ♦ main cable ♦ main cargo door ♦ main carrying cable ♦ Main center ♦ main chance ♦ main character ♦ main clause ♦ main contacts ♦ main convoy ♦ Main couple ♦ main course ♦ main crop ♦ main crop potato ♦ main deck ♦ main defense zone ♦ main detonating line ♦ main diagonal ♦ main direction ♦ main directory ♦ main dish ♦ main distributing frame ♦ main Distribution Frame ♦ main door ♦ main drag ♦ main effort ♦ main emphasis ♦ main engine manoeuvring platform ♦ main entrance ♦ main entrance door ♦ main entry word ♦ main exchange ♦ main feature ♦ main felling ♦ main fighting zone ♦ main figure ♦ main file ♦ main film ♦ main focus ♦ main force ♦ main frame ♦ main gear beam ♦ main gear door uplock assembly ♦ main gear door uplock assy ♦ main gear uplock assembly ♦ main gear uplock assy ♦ main guard ♦ main heading ♦ main headlines ♦ main highway ♦ main hydraulic system ♦ main idea ♦ main interest ♦ main item ♦ Main keel ♦ main landing gear ♦ main landing gear brace strut ♦ main lead ♦ main LG brace strut ♦ main line ♦ main loop ♦ main mass ♦ main mast ♦ main meal ♦ main memory ♦ main mission ♦ main motion ♦ main movement. Additional references.

Beginning with "main": main-cabin, main-chain, main-chancer, main-clean, main-coast, main-course, Main-danube, main-floor, main-frame, Main-gauche, Main-hamper, main-house, main-line, main-memory, Main-professional-grade, main-props, main-river, main-road, Main-sail, main-sequence, main-stay, main-store-resident, main-stream, main-topmast, main-topsail, main-wheel.

Ending with "main": water-main.

Containing "main": inter-main-cities, Rhine-Main-Danube.

Albanian

kryesor (arch, arterial, basal, capital, Cardinal, central, chief, focal, foremost, fundamental, general, governing, grand, great, key, keynote, leading, major, pivotal, predominant, premier, primal, primary, prime, principal, topmost, trunk). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مهم (important, in the first flight, leading, paramount, remarkable, serious, signify, sizable, substantial), ‏عرض البحر (offing), ‏جوهري (cardinal, essential, fundamental, intrinsic, intrinsical, material, overriding, pivotal, prime, quintessential, radical, substantial), ‏القوة الحية, ‏البر الرئيسى (mainland), ‏اصلي (off center, original), ‏أساسي (absolute, alkaline, basal, base, capital, cardinal, close, constitutional, formal, fundamental, imperative, indispensable, innate, inward, leading, major, material, momentous, nub, organic, overriding, paramount, piece de resistance, primal, primary, principal, radical, right, staple, substantial, ultimate, underling), ‏رئيسي (arch, arterial, broad, cardinal, central, chief, foremost, fundamental, head on, key-, leading, major, master, masterful, premier, primal, primary, prime, principal, sovereign, staple). (various references)

Bulgarian 

суша (air, aridness, bake, drought, dry, earth, exsiccate, fire, land, mainland, terra firma, weather), силен (acute, athletic, beefy, emphatic, energetic, flush, forceful, forcible, foul-mouthed, full, generous, hard, heavy, high, intense, invulnerable, iron, loud, lusty, male, mighty, muscled, muscular, nappy, nervous, nervy, perishing, pithy, potent, powerful, rattling, robust, short, shrewd, smacking, smart, sounding, stark, stiff, strong, sturdy, swingeing, telling, tenacious, thumping, thundering, torrid, two-fisted, vehement, vigorous), хазартна игра със зарове, гротмачта (mainmast), главна част, главен (arterial, capital, chief, decuman, general, grand, head, high, leading, magistral, major, master, pivotal, premier, primary, prime, principal, stellar), основен (abecedarian, alkali, alkaline, basal, basic, bottom, capital, essential, fundamental, general, grade, gut, key, key note, organic, pivotal, polar, primal, prime, primitive, primordial, principal, radical, rudimental, rudimentary, substantial, thorough, thoroughgoing, tonic, ultimate, underlying), открито море (high seas, offing), океан (ocean, pond, sea, waves), най-важна част, най-важен (central, essential, foremost, leading, primal, primary, prime, principal, supreme), мощен (forceful, massive, mighty, powerful, vigorous), борба между петли. (various references)

Chinese 

主要 (major, primary, principal). (various references)

Czech

hlavní (big, capital city, Cardinal, chief, decuman, essential, leading, magistral, major, prime, principal, staple, star). (various references)

Danish

rørledning (conduit, duct, line, pipe, pipeline, tubing), hoved (head, pate). (various references)

Dutch

voornaamste (chief, major, most important, predominant, principal), hoofd- (arch-, chief, chief-, major, predominant, principal). (various references)

Esperanto

precipa (predominant, principal), ĉefa (chief, major, principal). (various references)

Faeroese

týðandi (chief, major, principal), høvuðs- (chief, major, principal), aðal- (chief, major, principal). (various references)

Farsi 

مهم (Chief, Considerable, Earthshaking, Epochal, Grand, Grave, Great, Head, Important, Material, Momentous, Principal, Serious, Significant, Smacker, Substantial), نیرومند (Frank, Hale, Mighty, Nervy, Potent, Prolific, Rugged, Stout, Strong, Valiant, Vigorous), کامل (Absolute, Complete, Culminant, Exact, Intact, Integral, Large, Mature, Perfect, Plenary, Stark, Thorough, Unabridged, Unmitigated, Unqualified, Whole), تمام (All, Complete, Entire, Full, Integral, Off, Outandout, Thorough, Through, Whole), عمده (Chief, Dominant, Essential, Gross, Head, Major, Material, On, Only, Predominant, Primary, Prime, Principal, Significant), اصلی (Arch, Basic, Cardinal, Elementary, Essential, Fundametal, Genuine, Germinal, Head, Immanent, Ingrown, Inherent, Initial, Innate, Intrinsic, Net, Original, Primary, Prime, Primordial, Principal, Seminal), دریا (Channel, Flood, Mare, Mere, Sea), بااهمیت (Momentous). (various references)

Finnish

pääasiallinen (chief, essential, principal). (various references)

French

principal (major, master), dominant (major). (various references)

German

Haupt- (arch-, cardinal, chief, chief-, general, leading, major, paramount, primary, prime, principal), leitung (cable, chairmanship, conducting, conduction, cords, direction, diversion, duct, guidance, guiding, lead, leaders, leadership, leading, line, management, pilotage, pipe, pipeline, principalship, routing, running, wire), hauptsächlich (chief, chiefly, essentially, generally, mainly, major, mostly, notably, overriding, predominant, pre-eminently, primal, primarily, primary, principal, principally), haupt (boss, chief, head, leader, master, peak, pilot). (various references)

Greek 

κύριοσ σωλήνασ, κύριοσ αγωγόσ, κύριοσ (capital, chief, dominant, esquire, gentleman, leading, liege, master, monsignor, mr, principal, proper, seignior), κύριος (chief, foremost, gent, gentleman, master, staple), κυριότερος, κυρίος, κεντρικόσ αγωγόσ, σωλήνωση (conduit, piping, tubing), πρωτεύων (chief, premier), αγωγός (pipeline), ανοικτή θάλασσα (offing), ουσιώδησ (essential, material, substantial). (various references)

Haitian Creole

gran. (various references)

Hawaiian

kryesor (chief, major, predominant, principal). (various references)

Hebrew 

מרכזי (central, focal), יסודי (basic, elementary, elementary school, essential, fundamental, inchoate, substantial, thorough, thoroughgoing, ultimate), ים הפתוח (high seas), עוז (forcel, fortress, glory, heroism, might, power, strength, valour, vehemence, vigour), עקרי (capital, central, fundamental, leading, major, pivotal, preponderant, primary, principal, staple, substantial), עקר (barren, basis, crux, doctrine, dogma, essence, foundation, futile, gist, impotent, infertile, nub, origin, pith, principle, quintessence, root, sterile, substance, tenet), ראשי (capital, chief, leading, major, paramount, primary, principal, staple, top). (various references)

Hungarian

legfontosabb (chief, leading, premier, primal, prime, principal, staple, supreme), fontos (capital, important, major, memorabilia, memorable, momentous, of some account, ponderous, serious, significant, stressful, substantial), fõ- (arch, general-, grand, master), erõ (energy, feck, impetus, lustiness, might, muscle, potency, power, strength, stress), alap (base, basis, bedrock, bottom, cause, chief, claim, footing, foundation, foundations, fund, grounding, groundwork, patten, principle, substrate, substructure). (various references)

Indonesian

pokok (centre, essence, subject, underlying), pipa air (hydrant). (various references)

Italian

essenziale (basic, broad, elemental, essential, material, pivotal). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

主要 (chief, major, principal). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おもなる (important, principal), おもだつ (conspicuous, important, principal, prominent), おもだった (conspicuous, important, principal, prominent), おも (chief, face, important, principal), メーン , メイン , しゅたる (major, principal), しゅよう (absolutely necessary, chief, major, necessary business, neoplasm, principal, the master's business, tumor), しょうめん (facade, facet, front, frontage), ほん (book, counter for long cylindrical things, head, our, this), かんじん (aChinese, armorer, crucial, essential, fundamental, magnanimous, man of leisure, scoundrel, temple solicitation, villain, vital), こう (10^38, 1st in rank, 7th in rank, be bent, benefit, body cavity, boorish, box, clause, companion, compare with, daimyo, duke, effect, efficacy, efficiency, entertainment, female phoenix bird, filial piety, first sign of the Chinese calendar, grade A, happiness, head, height, hill, hundred sextillion, hundred undecillion, incense, instep, interest, item, knoll, long ages, lord, luck, manuscript, marquis, paragraph, pleasure, prince, proof, public, result, rising ground, same kind, -school, season, sentence, seventh sign of the Chinese calendar, shell, subordinate, success, such, this, threat, thus, to ask, to be in love, to invite, to request, urgent, verbal pause, version, weather), めぬき (fashionable, important, principal). (various references)

Korean 

주요한 (Capital). (various references)

Manx

mooar-vooir, ard-nheeagh, ard-linney (trunk, trunk line). (various references)

Pig Latin

ainmay.(various references)

Polish

główny (chief, major, principal). (various references)

Portuguese

principal (boss, broad, cardinal, central, chief, essential, firm in one's principles, first, flyaway, foremost, head, high, highlight, keynote, king, leading, major, parent, pivotal, preparative, primal, slip-on, substantial), básico (basic, bottom, cardinal, chief, essential, fundamental, key, major, primary, principal, root, underlying). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

principal (essential). (various references)

Romanian

uscat (adust, arenaceous, arid, barren, continent, crusty, dry, earth, fleshless, hungry, husky, land, mainland, meager, meagre, parched, sear, sere, shore, shrunken, slack, stale, thirsty, well-seasoned, wizened), principal (broad, capital, Cardinal, chief, first, front, grand, head, high, leading, notional, premier, primal, prime, principal, staple), linie principalã (main line), fundamental (base, basic, basically, capital, essential, fundamental, fundamentally, prime, principal, ultimate, vital), esenţial (capital, constituent, constitutive, elemental, essential, fundamental, indispensable, meat, prime, principal, vital), de prima importanţã (leading), corp principal, conductã principalã, cablu de distribuţie. (various references)

Russian 

хорошо развитой, грот-мачта (mainmast, maintop), главный (best, capital, central, general, governing, grand, head, hegemonic, magistral, major, primal, primary, prime, principal), главная часть (part and parcel), основной (basal, basic, best, elemental, essential, fundamental, key, most basic, overriding, primal, primary, prime, primitive, principal, radical, underlying), основа основной, открытое море (blue water, high seas), магистральный (arterial, trunk), магистраль (artery, highway, main line, pathway, trunk, trunk-line). (various references)

Scottish

laom-chrann (main beam of a house). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

morska pučina, matični (parent), okvirni (basic, general), glavno (chiefly, vitally), glavni deo (bulk, main body), glavni (arch, basic, capital, cardinal, chief, general, head, key, leading, magistral, major, paramount, premier, prime, principal, salient, trunk). (various references)

Spanish

principal (arch, capital, Cardinal, chief, chief officer, foremost, grand, great, head, high-end, immediate, large, lead, leading, major, most important, predominant, preferred, primal, prime, principal, staple, star, top, trunk, uppermost). (various references)

Swahili

-kuu (chief, major, principal), kuu (chief, major, principal). (various references)

Swedish

huvudsaklig (capital, Cardinal, chief, default, overriding, pivotal, principal, staple). (various references)

Thai

แผ่นดินใหญ่, ส่วนสำคัญที่สุด (be-all and end-all), สำคัญที่สุด (head, lead). (various references)

Turkish

ana (basic, broad, capital, Cardinal, chief, fundamental, governing, grand, guiding, head, key, leading, main part, major, master, matron, mother, parent, predominant, primary, principal, principle, staple). (various references)

Ukrainian

широкий (ample, big, broad, capacious, catholic, multitudinous, sweeping, vast, wide), основний (basal, base, basic, basilar, capital, central, chief, first, foremost, fundamental, key, master, organic, primary, primitive, principal, quintessence, radical, staple, substantial, ultimate, underlying), океан (blue, deep, ocean, water), півнячий бій. (various references)

Vietnamese 

quan trọng nhất (first, prime), phần cốt yếu, nước (country, crystal, run, unexhausted), dốc hết sức phần chính, cuộc chọi gà, chính (capitally, cardinal, keynote, leading, mainly, primarily, primary, principal, principally, staple), chủ yếu (cardinal, central, chief, governing, primal, staple), $with might and main$ với tất cả sức mạnh. (various references)

Welsh

cyfanfor (main sea, ocean), cefnfor (main sea, ocean), baich (burden, load, main point). (various references)

pelagus, sala, salamina, sale, salis, salo, salom, salomone. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "main": mainframe, mainframes, mainland, mainlander, mainlanders, mainlands, mainline, mainlined, mainlines, mainlining, mainly, mainmast, mainmasts, mains, mainsail, mainsails, mainsheet, mainsheets, mainspring, mainsprings, mainstay, mainstays, mainstream, mainstreamed, mainstreaming, mainstreams, maintain, maintainabilities, maintainability, maintainable, maintained, maintainer, maintainers, maintaining, maintains, maintenance, maintenances, maintop, maintops. (additional references)

Words ending with "main": amain, domain, legerdemain, mortmain, multidomain, pearmain, ptomain, remain. (additional references)

Words containing "main": cremains, diplomaing, domains, legerdemains, mortmains, nonmainstream, pearmains, ptomaine, ptomaines, ptomains, remainder, remaindered, remaindering, remainders, remained, remaining, remains, romaine, romaines. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Main" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amain, amani, amin, amina, Aminah, amint, Amni, eain, emain, emhain, hain, iaian, Imani, maaa, maaaan, maan, mabin, Macian, madin, Madiun, maen, Mae'n, mafn, magian, Magin, magint, magn, Mahina, mahn, mai, Maiano, maic, Maif, maing, Maino, maint, Mainy, Mainyu, maion, maip, mair, mait, maix, maiz, maji, Majno, makink, malina, mamina, Mamn, manga, mani, manig, Manin, manip, Manix, mann, manq, manv, maoi, maown, marin, marind, Marn, masin, mauii, maun, mauon, maux, mauz, mavi, mavin, mavn, mawi, mawine, mawn, maxint, mayne, mci, Meani, meien, Meig, mein, meina, Meing, meino, mekin, meni, menin, Mezini, mfi, miai, miak, mian, Miao, miar, miau, miaz, midin, mii, miii, mijn, minn, mion, Mji, Mkiv, mlaen, moai, Modin, moin, Moiun, moni, Moyn, Moyun, Msai, msi, muint, muvin, myain, Myaing, Mzi, naih, naij, nain, Naini, Najin, namn, nani, omai, smain, Xmai, yain. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: amin, mina.

-1 letter: aim, ain, ami, ani, man, nam, nim.

-2 letters: ai, am, an, in, ma, mi, na.

+1 letter: amain, amine, amino, amins, amnia, amnic, amnio, anima, anime, animi, gamin, inarm, liman, mains, mania, manic, matin, mavin, minae, minas, nizam.

+2 letters: aidman, aidmen, aiming, airman, airmen, alumin, alumni, amidin, amines, aminic, ammine, ammino, amnion, amnios, anemia, anemic, animal, animas, animes, animis, animus, anomic, anomie, arming, caiman, camion, cinema, daimen, daimon, diamin, domain, enigma, etamin, famine, faming, firman, gamine, gaming, gamins, haemin, harmin, iceman, immane, impawn, inarms, infamy, inmate, inseam, intima, jasmin, kamsin, kinema, lamina, laming, limans, limina, lingam, lumina, macing, magian, maiden, mainly, making, malign, maline, malkin, maniac, manias, manics, manila, manioc, manito, manitu, mantic, mantid, mantis, margin, marina, marine, marlin, martin, mating, matins, mattin, mavins, mawing, maying, mayvin, mazing, meanie, median, medina, menial, mesian, minima, minyan, naming, nanism, nizams, nomina, numina, oilman, paynim, pitman, remain, rumina, saimin, semina, simian, tamein, taming, tinman, titman, vimina.