Main is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MAIN in dictionary:

VERB:
• to maim or cripple
• Strength; force; might; violent effort.
• The chief or principal part; the main or most important thing.
• The great sea, as distinguished from an arm, bay, etc. ; the high sea; the ocean.
• The continent, as distinguished from an island; the mainland.
• principal duct or pipe, as distinguished from lesser ones; esp. (Engin.), a principal pipe leading to or from a reservoir; as, a fire main.
• lower sails
NOUN:
• a river of SW Germany which rises in northern Bavaria and flows 500 km (310 miles) westwards, through Frankfurt, to meet the Rhine at Mainz.
• A hand or match at dice.
• A stake played for at dice.
• The largest throw in a match at dice; a throw at dice within given limits, as in the game of hazard.
• A match at cockfighting.
• A main-hamper.
• any very large body of (salt) water
• a principal pipe in a system that distributes water or gas or electricity or that collects sewage
• principal pipe or line carrying water, gas, or electricity
ADJECTIVE:
• chief, principal
• chief in size or importance
• chief or principal
• Very or extremely strong.
• Vast; huge.
• Unqualified; absolute; entire; sheer.
• Principal; chief; first in size, rank, importance, etc.
• Important; necessary.
• Very; extremely; as, main heavy.
• most important element
• (of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence
• of force; of the greatest possible intensity
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the principal part

Words related to MAIN

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Words that contain MAIN

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How to use MAIN in a sentence

• One of the main buildings is occupied by an extremely neat chapel.
• They were entrenched and were waiting to be attacked, but seeing the main force turn tail, the hunted had turned hunters.
• As the city depends almost entirely on pumps for its supply of water, and these were filled with the flood, we have been drinking the muddy current of the Main ever since.
• Many voices, that of Mendoza among the rest, urged waiting till their main forces should arrive.
• Three thousand fell, and the rest were driven back upon their main body, which, still continued to fight bravely.
• This and the big main gate were the only entrances to the enclosure.
• Over its fences he peered down the dark main road, but neither in flash nor interval could the other man be seen.
• A party of officers who live in the main street were waiting for breakfast.
• But in one main point it differs radically from the work and the spirit of AEschylus.
• Potan could shut this off from the main hull control room.
• From the left hand of Joseph, grasping the palm branch, to the right hand of Mary, with the basin of water, runs the strong main line which gives character to the drawing.
• For just about a full half day, I had the best of him, and several times he was out of sight in the main body of the herd.
• The route followed by the pilgrims was that of the main road, which hereafter became the main line of supply of the forces operating in this direction.
• At times he would charge fiercely on detached parties of Arabs in the valleys or plains, and be off again to cover before the main force could come up.
• They came at length to the main hall, under a dome, with a gallery between the dome and the ground.
• A brief biography of each author and a criticism covering the main characteristics of his writings serve as starting points for the recitation.
• When the Granny had got her fill of his silent flattery, he was ready to carry forward his main purpose.
• It may be well in conclusion to attempt a still more summary impression of the main drift of the period on the spiritual side.
• I have sketched, as well as I can in so short a time, what seem to me the main points in the book under review.
• We judged the former to belong to the main of Terra del Fuego, and the latter to be islands, so ranged as apparently to form a coast.

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