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Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of chief or leading importance; prime, principal.

   “The main office is actually one of the smaller rooms.”

2. sıfat Chief, most important, or principal in extent, size, or strength; consisting of the largest part.

   “main timbers”

3. sıfat Full, sheer, undivided.

   “[…] 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.”

4. sıfat Big; angry.
5. sıfat Belonging to or connected with the principal mast in a vessel.
6. sıfat Great in size or degree; important, powerful, strong, vast.

   “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; […]”

7. zarf Exceedingly, extremely, greatly, mightily, very, very much.

   “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!”

8. fiil Ellipsis of mainline (“to inject (a drug) directly into a vein”).
9. fiil To mainly play a specific character or side, or with specific equipment, during a game.

   “He mains the same character as me in that game.”

10. fiil To convert (a road) into a main or primary road.

    “The borough did not have an opportunity of conferring with the County Council, but the County Council requested particulars of district roads in the borough which the Council suggested should be mained.”

11. isim That which is chief or principal; the chief or main portion; the bulk, the greater part, gross.
12. isim 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.”

13. isim A main account.

    “His main got banned after his last post.”

14. isim A large cable or pipe providing utility service to an area or a building, such as a water main or electric main.

    “There's a gas leak in the main outside the building.”

15. isim Ellipsis of main course (“the principal dish of a meal”).

    “I had scampi and chips for my main and a slice of cheesecake for dessert.”

16. isim The high seas.

    “Who ſhall him rew, that ſwimming in the maine, / Will die for thriſt, and water doth refuſe? / Refuſe ſuch fruitleſſe toile, and preſent pleaſures chuſe.”

17. isim The mainland.

    “No man is an Iland, intire of it ſelfe; euery man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; […]”

18. isim Ellipsis of mainsail.
19. isim Force, power, strength, violent effort.

    “For with ſuch puiſſance and impetuous maine / Thoſe Champions broke on them, that forſt the fly, / Like ſcattered Sheepe, whenas the Shepherds ſwaine / A Lyon and a Tigre doth eſpye, / With greedy pace forth ruſhing from the foreſt nye.”

20. isim A hand or match in a game of dice.

    “That writing is but juſt like dice, / And lucky mains make people wiſe: / That jumbled words, if fortune throw 'em, / Shall, well as Dryden, form a poem; […]”

21. isim 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.

    “Euery man hath not beene brought vp in the knowledge of toungs. And it chanceth often to the reader, as it doth to diceplayers, that gaine more by the bye then by the maine.”

22. isim A stake played for at dice.

    “[W]ere it good / To ſet the exact wealth of al our ſtates / Al at one caſt? to ſet ſo rich a maine / On the nice hazard of one doubtfull houre?”

23. isim A sporting contest or match, especially a cockfighting match.

    “My lord was hunting all day when the ſeaſon admitted; he frequented all the cockfights and fairs in the country, and would ride twenty miles to ſee a main fought, or two clowns break their heads at a cudgelling match; […]”

24. isim A banker's shovel for coins.
25. isim A basket for gathering grapes.

    “A main [hamper] Corbis vindemiatorius”

26. özel isim A river in southern Germany, flowing from Bavaria to the Rhine.
27. özel isim A river in Northern Ireland, flowing into Lough Neagh.
28. özel isim A surname.
29. özel isim Ellipsis of Main Street, a street named "Main Street".
30. isim Ellipsis of Main Street (“main street”), a central street of a community.