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Phrases 191
- main pageSynonym of home page: The main or first page of a website or set of hyperlinked documents.
- Main StreetThe proper name of the main street of any of many villages, towns, or small cities, especially in the United States, Canada, Ireland, and some parts of Scotland.
- main roadA major road in a town or village, or in a country area.
- main courseThe main serving or dish of a meal, usually cooked.
- main characterA person who becomes a focal point of discussion on a social media platform (particularly Twitter).
- main buildingThe most important building of a group of buildings (e.g. in a school/university).
- main thingThe most important factor; the principle consideration.
- main menuA list of principal options, usually presented to the user immediately upon the launch of a computer program or video game.
- main lineA standard sequence of opening moves considered to be best play.
- main dishMain course in a meal.
- main memoryVolatile memory forming most of a computer’s primary storage, not including cache memory (central processing unit cache) and secondary storage (mass storage).
- water mainThe principal pipe, usually underground, for conveying water to residential and business properties.
- main groupIn the periodic table of the elements, any of the eight groups (columns) of elements in the s and p blocks.
- main charactersplural of main character: A person who becomes a focal point of discussion on a social media platform (particularly Twitter).
- main eventThe principal match, bout or contest.
- main manOne's closest male friend.
- South MainAn area of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
- Int main
- Main Source
- gas mainThe conduit through which coal gas or natural gas is conveyed to users.
- Main Point
- Main window
- main eventsplural of main event: The principal match, bout or contest.
- main pagesplural of main page: The main or first page of a website or set of hyperlinked documents.
- main sequenceA major grouping of stars represented on a Hertzsprung-Russell diagram by a nearly uniform band of increasing luminosity with increasing surface temperature.
Compound words 153
- mainlyChiefly; for the most part.
- mainstreamUsed or accepted broadly rather than by small portions of population, market, scientific community, etc.
- mainlandThe continent; the principal land, as distinguished from islands or a peninsula.
- mainframeA large, powerful computer able to manage very many simultaneous tasks and communicate with very many connected terminals; used by large, complex organizations (such as banks and supermarkets) where continuously sustained operation is …
- mainstayA chief support.
- mainlineNormal, principal or standard.
- mainboardSynonym of motherboard: The primary circuit board of a personal computer, containing the circuitry for the central processing unit, keyboard, mouse and monitor, together with slots for other devices.
- mainspringThe principal spring of a clockwork mechanism, which drives it by uncoiling.
- maingateA tunnel admitting fresh air to the working face of a mine.
- mainstemThe principal watercourse of a river that has multiple streams