The Collaborative International Dictionary
Main \Main\ (m[=a]n), a. [From Main strength, possibly influenced by OF. maine, magne, great, L. magnus. Cf. Magnate.]
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Very or extremely strong. [Obs.]
That current with main fury ran.
--Daniel. Vast; huge. [Obs.] ``The main abyss.''
--Milton.Unqualified; absolute; entire; sheer. [Obs.] ``It's a man untruth.''
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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.
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Important; necessary. [Obs.] That which thou aright Believest so main to our success, I bring. --Milton. By main force, by mere force or sheer force; by violent effort; as, to subdue insurrection by main force. That Maine which by main force Warwick did win. --Shak. By main strength, by sheer strength; as, to lift a heavy weight by main strength. Main beam (Steam Engine), working beam. Main boom (Naut.), the boom which extends the foot of the mainsail in a fore and aft vessel. Main brace.
(Mech.) The brace which resists the chief strain. Cf. Counter brace.
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(Naut.) The brace attached to the main yard.
Main center (Steam Engine), a shaft upon which a working beam or side lever swings.
Main chance. See under Chance.
Main couple (Arch.), the principal truss in a roof.
Main deck (Naut.), the deck next below the spar deck; the principal deck.
Main keel (Naut.), the principal or true keel of a vessel, as distinguished from the false keel.
Syn: Principal; chief; leading; cardinal; capital.
Usage examples of "main center".
When the population had attained a critical size, a mixed workforce detached itself from the main center of activity and migrated a few miles away to build a second factory, a replica of the first, using materials supplied initially from Factory One.
The market was obviously the main center of trade for the farm people of the area.
The main center of the Todd Pickett Appreciation Society's operations was the front bedroom.
The main center for sleep research is still back in the Sol System, under Jan de Vries.
The leaflet were vivid bits of butterfly-bright paper that were cut and shaped to fly like little wings in all directions, They spread the word that the Petey B, home of Petey, Byrum and Keep, the Greatest Show In The Galaxy, was beginning a limited engagement on Hanson's Reach, setting down by special arrangement just outside the main center of population and commerce.
The city seemed to go on forever, and this wasn't even the main center.
The main center of attraction was the continuing feud between the two leaders.
Anakin went up as Jaina and Jacen went up, the three, each with another kill, rejoining above Lando's main center.
As he calculated, the building they were looking for would be toward the main center of the city which was called Manhattan, yet still in an outlying district called the Bronx.
If s a curving inlet and the water looks almost still, so it must be by-passed by the main center current.
And second, while I have no doubt of Greco-Roman influence, the main center of activity was in the water, not on dry land.