What is main?

  • (noun): Any very large body of (salt) water.
    Synonyms: briny
    See also — Additional definitions below

Some articles on main:

Old Salt Route - Tourism - Bicycle Route
... As a bicycle route, there are the options of a main and a scenic route ... The shorter main route (95 km) leads bicyclists through many picturesque little towns such as Lauenburg, Büchen, Mölln and Krummsee and also passes by the Lüne Monastery ... The 106 km long path diverges from the main thoroughfare at Witzeeze, continues on through the Lauenburg Nature Park and rejoins the main route just before Lübeck ...
QAD Inc
... sells its products and services to companies in six main industries automotive, consumer products, high technology, food and beverage, industrial ... QAD's main product suite is called QAD Enterprise Applications (prior to 2007 the main suite name was MFG/PRO) and uses year designations to denote versions ...
Yokohama Station - Station Layout
... JR East and Keikyū platforms are located in the main above ground portion of Yokohama Station. 1 ■Keikyū Main Line Kamiōoka, Yokosuka-Chuo, Uraga, Miurakaigan 2 ■Keikyū Main Line Keikyu Kamata, Shinagawa, Segakuji, Haneda Airport, Through service for ... Yokohama Municipal Subway is located on the 3rd underground floor, west of the main station ...
XK2
... K2 Black Panther (Hangul K2 '흑표', hanja K2 '黒豹') is a Republic of Korea main battle tank that will replace most of the various models of M48 ... is currently on hold due to concerns regarding its transmission and main engine ...
X-Change 2 - Gameplay - Main Characters
... Takuya Aihara (相原拓也/たくや) The Main Character ... who has already graduated before the main storyline of the game ...

More definitions of "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
  • (adj): Of force; of the greatest possible intensity.
    Example: "By main strength"
  • (noun): A principal pipe in a system that distributes water or gas or electricity or that collects sewage.
  • (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 three main medieval points of view regarding universals are designated by historians as realism, conceptualism, and nominalism. Essentially these same three doctrines reappear in twentieth-century surveys of the philosophy of mathematics under the new names logicism, intuitionism, and formalism.
    Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

    Yours of the 24th, asking “the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law” is received. The mode is very simple, though laborious, and tedious. It is only to get the books, and read, and study them carefully.... Work, work, work, is the main thing.
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)