Main

  • (adj): Of a clause; able to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence.
    Example: "The main (or independent) clause in a complex sentence has at least a subject and a verb"
    Synonyms: independent
    See also — Additional definitions below

Some articles on main:

Karlstadt Am Main
... Karlstadt is a town in the Main-Spessart district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) in Bavaria, Germany ... It is the Main-Spessart district seat (Kreisstadt) ... often call the town, in their own dialect, Karscht or Karscht am Mee (Karlstadt am Main) ...
Kosher Foods - Animal Products - Gelatin
... Gelatin is hydrolysed collagen, the main protein in animal connective tissue, and therefore could potentially come from a nonkosher source, such as pig skin ... source of glue, finding uses from musical instruments to embroidery, one of the main historic emulsions used in cosmetics and in photographic film, the main coating given to medical ... One of the main methods of avoiding nonkosher gelatin is to substitute gelatin-like materials in its place substances with a similar chemical behaviour include food starch from tapioca, chemically modified ...
Paragraph - Details
... A detail usually exists to support or explain a main idea ... Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English Poets, the first sentence is the main idea that Joseph Addison is a skilled "describer of life and manners" ... sentences are details that support and explain the main idea in a specific way ...
Tosu, Saga - Overview
... Its main train station is Tosu Station which connects the Nagasaki Main Line and the Kagoshima Main Line ...
Karlstein Am Main
... Karlstein am Main (officially Karlstein a.Main) is a community in the Aschaffenburg district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) in Bavaria, Germany ...

More definitions of "main":

  • (noun): Any very large body of (salt) water.
    Synonyms: briny
  • (noun): A principal pipe in a system that distributes water or gas or electricity or that collects sewage.
  • (adj): Of force; of the greatest possible intensity.
    Example: "By main strength"
  • (adj): Most important element.
    Example: "The main doors were of solid glass"
    Synonyms: chief, primary, principal

Famous quotes containing the word main:

    “The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.”
    —Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

    “The main question raised by the thriller is not what kind of world we live in, or what reality is like, but what it has done to us.”
    —Ralph Harper (b. 1915)

    “I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.”
    —Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)