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main
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: m?n, IPA(key): /me?n/
- Rhymes: -e?n
- Homophones: mane, Maine
Etymology 1
From Middle English mayn, main, maine, mæin, meyn, from main (noun) (see further at etymology 2); compare Old English mægen- (“strong, main, principal”) (used in combination) and Old Norse megn, megenn (“strong, main”). The word is cognate with Old High German meg?n (“strong, mighty”) (modern German Möge, Vermögen (“power, wealth”)), and also akin to Old English magan (“to be able to”). See also may.
Adjective
main (not comparable)
- Of chief or leading importance; prime, principal. [from 15th c.]
- 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious
- Religion direct us rather to ?ecure inward peace than outward ea?e, to be more careful to avoid everla?ting and intolerable torment than ?hort and light afflictions which are but for a moment; […] In a word, our main intere?t is to be as happy as we can, and as long as is po??ible; and if we be ca?t into ?uch circum?tances, that we mu?t be either in part and for a time or el?e wholly and always mi?erable, the be?t wi?dom is to chu?e the greate?t and mo?t la?ting happiness, but the lea?t and ?horte?t mi?ery.
- 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious
- Chief, most important, or principal in extent, size, or strength; consisting of the largest part.
- Synonym: largest
- (archaic, of force, strength, etc.) Full, sheer, undivided. [from 16th c.]
- (dialectal) Big; angry.
- (nautical) Belonging to or connected with the principal mast in a vessel.
- (obsolete) Great in size or degree; important, powerful, strong, vast.
Derived terms
Translations
Adverb
main (comparative more main, superlative most main)
- (Britain, dialectal) Exceedingly, extremely, greatly, mightily, very, very much.
Verb
main (third-person singular simple present mains, present participle maining, simple past and past participle mained)
- (transitive) Short for mainline (“to inject (a drug) directly into a vein”).
- (transitive, gaming) To mainly play a specific character, or side, during a game.
- (obsolete) To convert (a road) into a main or primary road.
Etymology 2
From Middle English mayn, main, maine, mæine, mæ?en, from Old English mæ?en (“strength”), from Proto-Germanic *magin? (“strength, power, might”), *maginaz (“strong”), from Proto-Indo-European *meg?- (“be able”). The word is cognate with Old High German magen, megin, Old Norse magn, megn, megin, Old Saxon megin. More recent senses are derived from the adjective.
Noun
main (plural mains)
- That which is chief or principal; the chief or main portion; the bulk, the greater part, gross.
- (video games) The primary character that one plays in a video game in which one can play more than one character.
- Antonym: alt
- (video games) The primary character that one plays in a video game in which one can play more than one character.
- A large cable or pipe providing utility service to an area or a building, such as a water main or electric main. [from 17th c.]
- (informal) Short for main course (“the principal dish of a meal”).
- (now poetic) The high seas. [from 16th c.]
- (now archaic, US dialectal) The mainland. [from 16th c.]
- (nautical) Short for mainsail. [from 17th c.]
- (obsolete, except in might and main) Force, power, strength, violent effort. [from 9th c.]
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 3
Origin uncertain; probably from the adjective main. Evidence is lacking for a derivation from French main (“hand”).
Noun
main (plural mains)
- (obsolete, gaming) A hand or match in a game of dice.
- (obsolete, gaming) 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.
- (obsolete, gaming) A stake played for at dice.
- (obsolete, gaming, sports) A sporting contest or match, especially a cockfighting match.
- A banker's shovel for coins.
Etymology 4
Origin uncertain, possibly from French main (“hand”).
Noun
main (plural mains)
- (obsolete, rare) A basket for gathering grapes.
References
Further reading
- main (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Main (power) in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Anagrams
- Amin, Iman, Mani, Mian, Mina, NAMI, NIMA, Naim, amin, iman, mani, mina
Cimbrian
Alternative forms
- moi (Luserna)
Etymology
From Middle High German m?n, form Old High German m?n, from Proto-West Germanic *m?n, from Proto-Germanic *m?naz (“my, mine”). Cognate with German mein, English mine.
Determiner
main (plural main, bon/dar maindarn) (Sette Comuni)
- (attributive) my
- (predicative) mine
Usage notes
The following rules apply to all Sette Comuni Cimbrian possessive determiners:
- They are inflected by number and gender in only exclamations (i.e. vocative case).
- Before nouns, they are inflected for number only and follow the corresponding definite article (a form of dar).
- The plural ending is -en, or -? when the pronoun itself ends in -n.
- Predicatively, they are uninflected and the definite article is not used.
- Following bon (“of”) or dar (the only surviving trace of a genitive definite article; used for all numbers and genders) they end in -darn.
Inflection
See also
References
- “main” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
Dalmatian
Etymology
From Latin m?ne, from m?. Compare Romanian mine.
Pronoun
main
- (first-person singular pronoun, oblique case) me
Related terms
- me
- ju
Finnish
Noun
main
- Instructive plural form of maa.
See also
- jossain näillä main
Anagrams
- mani, mina, nami
French
Etymology
From Middle French main, Old French main, mein, man, from Latin manus (“hand”), from Proto-Italic *manus, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh?- (“to beckon”). Compare Spanish mano.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m??/
- Homophones: mains, maint, maints
- Hyphenation: main
Noun
main f (plural mains)
- hand
- (soccer) handball
- (poker) hand
Synonyms
- louche
- mimine
- paluche
- pince
Meronyms
- doigt
- dos
- paume
- poignet
- pouce
Holonyms
- bras
Derived terms
Related terms
- manche
- manicle
- manier
- manipuler
- manivelle
- manuel
Descendants
- ? German: Lamäng
Further reading
- “main” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- mina
Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay main
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /main/
- Hyphenation: main
Verb
main (bermain)
- to play
Derived terms
Further reading
- “main” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Kaiep
Noun
main
- woman
Further reading
- Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
- Stephen Adolphe Wurm, New Guinea Area Languages and Language Study (1976)
Malay
Etymology
A phonemical reduction from Pre-Malayic *q-um-ayam, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qayam.
Pronunciation
- (Johor-Selangor) IPA(key): /maen/
- (Riau-Lingga) IPA(key): /ma?n/
- Rhymes: -aen, -en
Verb
main (Jawi spelling ?????, used in the form bermain)
- to play
Derived terms
Descendants
- Indonesian: main
References
- "main" in Kamus Dewan, Fourth Edition, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, ?ISBN, 2005.
- “main” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Middle English
Noun
main
- Alternative form of mayn
Adjective
main
- Alternative form of mayn
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French main, mein, man, from Latin manus.
Noun
main f (plural mains)
- (anatomy) hand
Descendants
- French: main
Norman
Alternative forms
- man (continental Normandy)
- môin (Guernsey)
Etymology
From Old French main, mein, man, from Latin manus (“hand”), from Proto-Indo-European *man-.
Pronunciation
Noun
main f (plural mains)
- (Jersey, anatomy) hand
Derived terms
- brînge à main f (“brush”)
- marté à deux mains m (“sledgehammer”)
Related terms
- dé (“finger”)
Northern Sami
Pronoun
main
- locative plural of mii
Old French
Alternative forms
- mein, man
Etymology
From Latin manus.
Noun
main f (oblique plural mainz, nominative singular main, nominative plural mainz)
- (anatomy) hand
Descendants
- Middle French: main
- French: main
- Norman: main
- Walloon: mwin
Welsh
Etymology
Cognate with Breton moan, Cornish moon.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mai?n/
Adjective
main (feminine singular main, plural meinion, equative meined, comparative meinach, superlative meinaf)
- slender, thin
- Synonym: tenau
- fine
- Synonym: mân
Mutation
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trough
English
Etymology
From Middle English trough, trowgh, trow, trou?, trogh, from Old English troh, trog (“a trough, tub, basin, vessel for containing liquids or other materials”), from Proto-Germanic *trug?, *trugaz (compare West Frisian trôch, Dutch trog, German Trog, Swedish tråg), from Proto-Indo-European *dru-kó (compare Middle Irish drochta (“wooden basin”), Old Armenian ?????? (targal, “ladle, spoon”), enlargement of *dóru (“tree”)). More at tree.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /t??f/
- (US) enPR: trôf, IPA(key): /t??f/
- (US, cot–caught merger, Canada) enPR: tr?f, IPA(key): /t??f/
- (US dialectal) enPR: trôth, IPA(key): /t???/; (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /t???/
- Rhymes: -?f
Noun
trough (plural troughs)
- A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
- One of Hank's chores was to slop the pigs' trough each morning and evening.
- Any similarly shaped container.
- 1976, Frederick Bentham, The art of stage lighting (page 233)
- It just clips on the front of the stage without any special trough, has no great power and occupies only one dimmer, […]
- (Australia, New Zealand) A rectangular container used for washing or rinsing clothes.
- Ernest threw his paint brushes into a kind of trough he had fashioned from sheet metal that he kept in the sink.
- 1976, Frederick Bentham, The art of stage lighting (page 233)
- A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.
- There was a small trough that the sump pump emptied into; it was filled with mosquito larvae.
- (Canada) A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
- The troughs were filled with leaves and needed clearing.
- (agriculture, Australia, New Zealand) A channel for conveying water or other farm liquids (such as milk) from place to place by gravity; any ‘U’ or ‘V’ cross-sectioned irrigation channel.
- A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.
- The buoy bobbed between the crests and troughs of the waves moving across the bay.
- The neurologist pointed to a troubling trough in the pattern of his brain-waves.
- (meteorology) A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
Synonyms
- manger (container for feeding animals)
Derived terms
- water trough
Translations
Verb
trough (third-person singular simple present troughs, present participle troughing, simple past and past participle troughed)
- To eat in a vulgar style, as if from a trough.
- He troughed his way through three meat pies.
References
- Oxford English Dictionary Online
See also
- crib
- ditch
- trench
Anagrams
- Rought, rought
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