Main vs. Predominant
Mainadjective
Of chief or leading importance; prime, principal.
Predominantadjective
common or widespread; prevalent
Mainadjective
Chief, most important, or principal in extent, size, or strength; consisting of the largest part.
‘main timbers’; ‘main branch of a river’; ‘main body of an army’;
Predominantadjective
significant or important; dominant
Mainadjective
Full, sheer, undivided.
Predominantnoun
(music) A subdominant.
Mainadjective
(dialectal) Big; angry.
Predominantadjective
Having the ascendency over others; superior in strength, influence, or authority; prevailing; as, a predominant color; predominant excellence.
‘Those help . . . were predominant in the king's mind.’; ‘Foul subordination is predominant.’;
Mainadjective
(nautical) Belonging to or connected with the principal mast in a vessel.
Predominantadjective
most frequent or common;
‘prevailing winds’;
Mainadjective
(obsolete) Great in size or degree; important, powerful, strong, vast.
Predominantadjective
having superior power and influence;
‘the predominant mood among policy-makers is optimism’;
Mainadverb
Exceedingly, extremely, greatly, mightily, very, very much.
Mainverb
(transitive) lang=en
Mainverb
To mainly play a specific character, or side, during a game.
‘He mains the same character as me in that game.’; ‘What race do you main and what is your favourite race to beat?’;
Mainverb
(obsolete) Of a road: to convert into a main or primary road.
Mainnoun
That which is chief or principal; the chief or main portion; the bulk, the greater part, gross.
Mainnoun
(video gaming) The primary character that one plays in a video game in which one can play more than one character.
‘My WoW main has reached level cap and I’m on my way getting my first alt there as well.’;
Mainnoun
A large cable or pipe providing utility service to an area or a building, such as a water main or electric main.
Mainnoun
(informal) lang=en
‘I had scampi and chips for my main and a slice of cheesecake for dessert.’;
Mainnoun
The high seas.
Mainnoun
The mainland.
Mainnoun
(nautical) lang=en
Mainnoun
Force, power, strength, violent effort.
Mainnoun
A hand or match in a game of dice.
Mainnoun
The largest throw in a match at dice; in the game of hazard, a number from one to nine called out by a person before the dice are thrown.
Mainnoun
A stake played for at dice.
Mainnoun
A sporting contest or match, especially a cockfighting match.
Mainnoun
A banker's shovel for coins.
Mainnoun
A basket for gathering grapes.
Mainnoun
A hand or match at dice.
Mainnoun
A stake played for at dice.
Mainnoun
The largest throw in a match at dice; a throw at dice within given limits, as in the game of hazard.
Mainnoun
A match at cockfighting.
Mainnoun
A main-hamper.
Mainnoun
Strength; force; might; violent effort.
‘There were in this battle of most might and main.’; ‘He 'gan advance,With huge force, and with importable main.’;
Mainnoun
The chief or principal part; the main or most important thing.
‘Resolved to rest upon the title of Lancaster as the main, and to use the other two . . . but as supporters.’;
Mainnoun
The great sea, as distinguished from an arm, bay, etc. ; the high sea; the ocean.
‘With might and main they chased the murderous fox.’;
Mainadjective
Very or extremely strong.
‘That current with main fury ran.’;
Mainadjective
Vast; huge.
Mainadjective
Unqualified; absolute; entire; sheer.
Mainadjective
Principal; chief; first in size, rank, importance, etc.; as, the main reason to go; the main proponent.
‘Our main interest is to be happy as we can.’;
Mainadjective
Important; necessary.
‘That which thou arightBelievest so main to our success, I bring.’; ‘That Maine which by main force Warwick did win.’;
Mainadverb
Very; extremely; as, main heavy.
Mainnoun
any very large body of (salt) water
Mainnoun
a principal pipe in a system that distributes water or gas or electricity or that collects sewage
Mainadjective
most important element;
‘the chief aim of living’; ‘the main doors were of solid glass’; ‘the principal rivers of America’; ‘the principal example’; ‘policemen were primary targets’;
Mainadjective
of a clause; able to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence;
‘the main (or independent) clause in a complex sentence has at least a subject and a verb’;
Mainadjective
of force; of the greatest possible intensity;
‘by main strength’;
