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mainstay
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mainstay \Main"stay`\, n.
(Naut.) The stay extending from the foot of the foremast to the maintop.
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Main support; principal dependence.
The great mainstay of the Church.
--Buckle.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A chief support. 2 (context nautical English) A stabilise rope from the top of the mainmast to the bottom of the foremast.
WordNet
n. a prominent supporter; "he is a pillar of the community" [syn: pillar]
a central cohesive source of support and stability; "faith is his anchor"; "the keystone of campaign reform was the ban on soft money"; "he is the linchpin of this firm" [syn: anchor, keystone, backbone, linchpin, lynchpin]
the forestay that braces the mainmast
Wikipedia
Mainstay is a Christian rock band from Minneapolis, Minnesota. The band was formed in 2003 and is signed to BEC Recordings. While a lot of the band's music has decidedly Christian lyrics and messages, their music appeals to a large secular fanbase as well. Their music style has been compared to Copeland, Kutless, Sanctus Real, Lifehouse and The Goo Goo Dolls. Their debut album, Well Meaning Fiction, was released on February 21, 2006.
Mainstay is a Christian rock band from Minneapolis, USA.
Mainstay may also refer to:
- A cable, line, or rope from the top of the main-mast to the foot of the fore-mast on a sailing vessel, forming part of the vessel's standing rigging
- Beriev A-50, a Russian AWACS aircraft
- USS Mainstay (AM-261), a US Navy minesweeper
- Mainstay Lake in Guyana
- Mainstay LLC, a provider of independent value assessment and IT strategy services
Usage examples of "mainstay".
Some of his short stories and novelettes have been mainstays for the anthologists ever since and have been adapted for television production, as for example The Little Black Bag and The Marching Morons.
Purza appeared, not the remains that Moria had vandalized, but the comfort creature that had been her mainstay.
Soames had been her mainstay throughout thirty-four years chequered by Montague Dartie, had continued her mainstay in the thirteen unchequered years since.
Yet the Lydian cavalry is the best in the world, and a mainstay of the Persian army.
The mast would have to be replaced, and the mainstays, but he still had all his canvas.
With much ceremony and a lot of hard work, it was properly stepped, new mainstays in place, the boom rehung and the patched canvas threaded onto the sheet and dutifully raised to flap in the light breeze.
The Cambria and ships like her were a mainstay of the commerce between worlds that was essential to their economic survival.
The coproduction agreements had made the F-16 Falcon a mainstay of military aviation in countries ranging from Israel, Bahrain, Egypt, and South Korea to Venezuela.
So the mainstay of the New Inquisition is the parish-school, and its deadliest enemy is the American school system.
The sect, linked to the cargo cults which were once a mainstay of island life, doused their clothes and bodies with gasoline and set fire to themselves in the main boarding area of Port Moresby's Somare Airport.
Nefer could not look round for Daimios blade flashed and gleamed before his eyes, but he shouted, 'Cut down the bridge, Meren, cut away the mainstays, and let her fall.
Agriculture was depressed by a decade of government neglect, the draught horse which had been the mainstay of the profession was fast disappearing.
Soft drinks, iceberg lettuce, and ketchup were fast-food mainstays and soon ranked among the most often consumed foods in the nation.
One of the small electric vans that were the mainstay of the space station's delivery network was pulling off the main drag into the loading area, a meat wagon this time.
She had used a strike from Pa-kua, one of China's oldest martial arts, one of the original war arts or wu-shu that stressed circular movements in attack and defense much like aikido, which was Jake's mainstay.