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main

The main thing is the most important or biggest one. They turned off the main road and saw a small house. There are many problems, but the main one is money. what was the main reason for war in Europe in 1914?

main

A main is a large pipe or wire that carries gas, water, electricity, etc. A break in a water main has closed the road.

main

(= chief, primary, principal, master) 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 the master bedroom a master switch of force; of the greatest possible intensity by main strength any very large body of (salt) water a principal pipe in a system that distributes water or gas or electricity or that collects sewage (= independent) (of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence the main (or independent) clause in a complex sentence has at least a subject and a verb

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Sunshine is the main source of vitamin D.
Tourists are the main source of income for them.
There is a claim that climaterorism is the main cause of global warming.
What's your main goal?
Hard work is the main element of success.
We set to work with all our might and main.
The main point of Dennett's book, in short, is to deny the existence of inner mental states.
That would lead to the production of more carbon dioxide, the main gas responsible for global warming.
That's when we learned that the main post office was on fire and that they had kidnapped our president.
What is the main cause of the crime?
The newspaper recalled the special correspondent to the main office in Tokyo.
These letters, in the main, are from my mother.
It only goes as far as Main Street, but you can get the Number 31 there.
This tour takes in each of the five main islands.
Patterns of freeze-up and breakup influence the distribution and number of seals, the polar bear's main prey.
What is the main industry in this town?
Can you tell me where Main Street is?
A taxi drew up at the main gate.
The country's main products are cocoa and gold.
From this standpoint history can be divided into two main epochs.
The main feature of this scheme is still ambiguous.
This is the main street of this city.
Coffee is Brazil's main product.
When to start is the main problem.
You must not lose sight of your main object.
Until recently, the main function of women was to marry and give birth to children.
The automobile industry is one of the main industries in Japan.

Movie subtitles

The main purpose of these visits was not so much to trade, but to assert Chinese supremacy.
As we'II see, there was more than one killer app, but the one that really started the ball rolling was surely competition - both the main driver of capitalism and of the fragmented European state system.
In Venice, La Serenissima, here in Frankfurt, on the banks of the River Main. and, of course, in London itself. It wasn't just London pride.
That's right. This is a pronouncement from the main building of the Enryakuji Temple. Mt.
Marcus, they did, and that's how they ended up on the main road.
Well, Pistachio and Kaiser are the two main contenders for Best Dog In Show, with Roger and Duke following closely behind.
Sniper must be in the main building.
Listen up: according to Bishop, the Senator's transmitter signal is coming from the complex, probably the main tower.
Our main objective is in there.
My main sources are mentioned in the theatre's playbill.
Now, here is the main road leading out of Cocoanut Manor.
Ladies and gentlemen, before proceeding with the main business of the day, which is the selling of these lots at any price, we're gonna have a little entertainment. very little.
The main objective should be to look for water!
You know the main staircase in the opera?
We do see the old main building of the radio station and a few other buildings.
You know it's the nomads' main source of income.
Shut off the main power!
In the main court, where the Cossack battery took up its position.
She took me through the theater to the main entrance on the street.
You left out the main one, too.
The main thing is to go straight. Am I right?
Shut those honorable kissers, because here comes the main attraction!
This must be the main highway.
I mean the main house.
We were up to our knees in water trying to get a drain ditch through to the main channel.
Will I walk down the main street!
Game on, my main man!
And he's got, you know, one main best friend, and that's Stiles Stilinski. Ugh! Aah!
Is that the main dialogue of this invitation?
Making an uproar in front of the main gate to the red-light district is uncouth.
This is a pronouncement from the main building of the Enryakuji Temple.
The main landing.
The main attack.
Main control, discharging system.
That's the main thing.

News and current affairs

So how will the world - first and foremost, the main nuclear powers - react to the Fukushima disaster?
Viewed from the standpoint of food security and the wealth of rural areas, there is now an urgent need to revisit the CAP's main instruments so that a new policy formula can be introduced.
The development of an Agricultural Main Structure would compliment the European Ecological Main Structure.
Two main problems limit the availability of medicines today.
Israel's main concern continues to be security.
Such systems cannot work, because they eliminate the capital market as the economic system's main steering mechanism.
This World Cup demonstrates three main developments that the sport has undergone.
Ethiopian village life has long depended on two crops, one during a short rain in March and April, and the main crop during the long rain in the summer months.
We also bear the responsibilities involved in laying off Chernobyl's workers and depriving the adjacent city of Slavutych (population 28,000), of its main source of income.
The main thrust of early conservatism was root-and-branch opposition to every form of social insurance: make the poor richer, and they would become more fertile.
Spreading democracy was not the main concern; stopping communism - in Asia, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas - was.
Moreover, he would run far larger debt ratios than Romney, because the main driver of the debt is entitlement spending.
It would be interesting to know how many of those at Beijing's Central Party School - the party's main educational institute - believe that the Chinese state is about to wither away, or ever will.
But their main effect may be an erosion of reasoned debate and civil conduct, without which democracy is powerless against the forces of polarization and extremism.
Europe's main strength in foreign policy is not its commitment to a rules-based multilateralism, important as that undoubtedly is, but its unity.
Their appetite for change - understandable, given the treatment of women in traditional Muslim societies - appears to be one of the main causes underlying the force of the revolutionary impulse in Tunisia and Egypt.
The main question is whether the growing number of women in politics will deliver the different perspectives and modes of leadership that many voters (or protesters) now seem to crave.
Although the United States remains the main destination of Latin American and Caribbean exports, Asia is becoming an increasingly important market for goods based on natural resources.
In Liberia, the main push is to reduce imports of staples such as rice and tomatoes.
This year Madi may grow even less cotton, even though the crop is the main source of income for himself, his two wives and his five children.
In Cameroon, where cotton is the main source of income for nearly five million people, record crops were posted last year and the year before.
There need to be increased funds available to support small and medium-size enterprises - the main source of job creation in all economies - which is especially important, given that credit contraction by banks hits these enterprises especially hard.
The main problem facing a military operation in Iran is the need to ensure its legitimacy.
In other words, the League's main purpose is to marginalize Russia and China in world affairs.
Preventing a repetition of this scenario is the main challenge for European policymakers in the coming years.

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