main
suomi-englanti sanakirjamain englannista suomeksi
avomeri
pääjohto, pääputki
silkka, pelkkä
pää-
Substantiivi
Verbi
main englanniksi
Of chief or leading importance; prime, principal. (defdate)
(RQ:Tillotson Works) In a word, our ''main intereſt'' is to be ''as happy as we can'', and ''as long as is poſſible''; and if we be caſt into ſuch circumſtances, that we muſt be either in part and for a time or elſe wholly and always miſerable, the ''beſt wiſdom'' is to chuſe the ''greateſt'' and ''moſt laſting happiness'', but the ''leaſt'' and ''ſhorteſt miſery''.
(RQ:Maxwell Mirror and the Lamp)
(quote-book) The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.
Chief, most important, or principal in extent, size, or strength; consisting of the largest part.
(synonyms)
(ux)
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)
(quote-journal) It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped.
(RQ:Scott Rob Roy) I shall never forget the diabolical sneer which writhed Rashleigh's wayward features, as I was forced from the apartment by the main strength of two of these youthful Titans.
(RQ:Scott Tales of the Crusaders)
Belonging to or connected with the principal mast in a vessel.
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Printed for R. Gosling,(nb...) W. Mears,(nb...) and J. Browne(nb...)|year=1718|volume=II|section=stanza LXXXIX|page=167|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=qx4JAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA167|oclc=1904801|passage=And now that Current with main Fury ran / (The Stop remov'd that did the Courſe defend) / Unto the full of Miſchief, that began / T' an univerſal Ruin to extend; (..)
(quote-book)|location=Dublin|publisher=Printed by Richard James,(nb...)|year=1754|section=act II|page=35|pageurl=https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=1xZgAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA51|oclc=7748527|passage=''Suck''''y''. A Draught of Ale, Friend, for I'm main dry. / ''Pen''''elope''. Fie! fie! Niece! Is that Liquor for a young Lady? Don't disparage your Family and Breeding!
(quote-book)|year=1778|year_published=c. 1813–1828|section=act I, scene ii|page=309|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=anNbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA309|oclc=40729653|passage=Why, it's main jolly to be sure, and all that so fair.
(RQ:Stevenson Treasure Island)
(short for)
To mainly play a specific character or side, or with specific equipment, during a game.
(quote-web) just Told Me His ‘Dark Secret’|url=https://www.businessinsider.sg/elon-musk-reveals-he-mains-soldier-76-in-overwatch-2017-1/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170330084424/https://www.businessinsider.sg/elon-musk-reveals-he-mains-soldier-76-in-overwatch-2017-1/|archivedate=30 March 2017|work=Business Insider|date=25 January 2017|passage=Now, full disclosure: I too main Soldier 76 in "(video game)|Overwatch" (by the way, the term "maining" is parlance for the most-often used character you play in a given game).
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(quote-journal)
That which is chief or principal; the chief or main portion; the bulk, the greater part, gross.
(quote-book) and Tonson|Jacob Tonson(nb...)|year=1718|volume=II, part I|section=part II, book II|page=96|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=rU6mWbx_FogC&pg=PA96|oclc=695990865|passage=''III the Great|Antiochus'' (..) thought it a proper time for him to attempt the recovery of ''Syria''; and ''Hermias'' his prime Miniſter preſſed hard for his going in perſon to this war, contrary to the Opinion of ''Epigenes'' his General; who thought it chiefly concerned him to ſuppreſs the Rebellion of ''(satrap)|Alexander'' and ''(w)'' in the East; and therefore adviſed him to march immediately in perſon with the main of his Army for the ſubduing of thoſe Rebels, before they ſhould gather greater ſtrength in the revolted Provinces againſt him.
(quote-book)|year=1803|page=8|pageurl=https://archive.org/stream/b29321712_0005page/8/mode/1up|oclc=5861323|passage=But the King &91;(w)&93;, (..) preferring his affection to his own line and blood, (..) resolved to rest upon the title of Lancaster as the main, and to use the other two, that of marriage, and that of battle, but as supporters, the one to appease secret discontents, and the other to beat down open murmur and dispute; (..)
The primary character that one plays in a game in which one can play more than one character.
(antonyms)
A large cable or pipe providing utility service to an area or a building, such as a main or main. (defdate)
(quote-journal)|location=Dublin|publisher=Printed by Abraham Bradley and Abraham Bradley King,(nb...)|date=3 April 1778|year_published=1782|volume=XX|page=539|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=o9BOAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA539|oclc=264474860|passage=The Contract with the Pipe-water Pavior was, as he recollects, to keep the Pavement in Repair for ſix Weeks; did oblige the Contractor to repair many Places in that ſix Weeks; there was a Part of the new Main failed in ''Dame-ſtreet''; was obliged to take up three or four Pieces in Length, in conſequence of a Sewer being made there, which undermined the Main, and put it out of its Place; (..)
The seas. (defdate)
(RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)
(RQ:Dryden Virgil)
(quote-book) (music)|chapter=(Handel)|Hercules: An Oratorio|title=The Miscellaneous Pieces, as Set to Music, of Geo. Fred. Handel.(nb...)|location=London|publisher=Printed for T. Heptinstall,(nb...)|year=c. 1744|year_published=1799|volume_plain=part II|section=part the second II, scene iv|page=53|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=xvZdAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA53|oclc=642364001|passage=Wanton god of am'rous fires, / Wishes, sighs and soft desires, / All nature's sons thy laws maintain; / O'er liquid air, firm land, and swelling main, / Extend thy uncontroul'd and boundless reign.
(quote-song)
(quote-book) / It is their care that the wheels run truly; it is their care to embark and entrain, / Tally, transport, and deliver duly the Sons of Mary by land and main.
The mainland. (defdate)
(quote-book)|year=1624|year_published=1740|volume=III|page=526|pageurl=https://archive.org/stream/worksoffrancisba03bacopage/526/mode/1up|oclc=960099509|passage=In the year that followed of 1589, we gave the ''Spaniards'' no breath, but turned challengers, invaded the main of ''Spain''. In which enterprize, although we failed of our end, which was to ſettle ''Prior of Crato|Don Antonio'' in the kingdom of ''Portugal'', yet a man ſhall hardly meet with an action that doth better reveal the great ſecret of the power of ''Spain'': (..)
(RQ:Donne Devotions)
(RQ:Smith Generall Historie)
(RQ:Melville Moby-Dick) all this sufficiently proclaimed him an inheritor of the unvitiated blood of those proud warrior hunters, who, in quest of the great New England moose, had scoured, bow in hand, the aboriginal forests of the main.
(short for) (defdate)
(quote-book)?&93;|chapter=Epistle to Sheppard|Fleetwood Shephard, Esq.|mainauthor=“Mr. Gentleman” pseudonym|title=The New Pleasing Instructor: Or, Entertaining Moralist.(nb...)|location=York, Yorkshire|publisher=Printed by C. Etherington, for Bell (publisher)|John Bell, (...) and C. Etherington,(nb...)|date=14 May 1689|year_published=1772|page=370|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=SphYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA370|oclc=79576873|passage=That writing is but juſt like dice, / And lucky mains make people wiſe: / That jumbled words, if fortune throw 'em, / Shall, well as Dryden|Dryden, form a poem; (..)
1876, Charles Dickens, ''All the Year Round''
- That no minute might be wasted, the gay gallants of the time generally had a dice-box and a cast of dice in their pockets. This was convenient in the extreme, as, in the intervals of racing, a main could be thrown (..)
The largest throw in a match at dice; in the game of hazard, a number from one to nine outVerb|called out by a person before the dice are thrown.
(RQ:Thackeray Pendennis)
A stake played for at dice.
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 4-1 Q1)
A sporting contest or match, especially a cockfighting match.
(RQ:Thackeray Henry Esmond)
(quote-book)|edition=3rd|location=London|publisher=Printed by C. and J. Ackers, for William Mount and Thomas Page ''et al.''|year=1751|column=1|oclc=644251218|passage=''A main'' hamper Corbis vindemiatorius|brackets=on
(q) my
(uxi)
(qualifier) me
(infl of)
hand
(C) quire
to play
to gamble
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