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# main

«main» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **the most important or the biggest one, like the main road…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (main); noun (a main, mains)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Main means the most important or the biggest one, like the main road or the main idea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/main/#m1)

2) A main is a large pipe or cable that carries water, gas or electricity to buildings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/main/#m2)

3) The mains is the electricity supply from the wall sockets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/main/#m3)

4) In British English, a main or main course is the biggest part of a meal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/main/#m4)

5) Long ago, main could mean very or greatly, as in "I would main like to go." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/main/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In reading and writing lessons, the main idea is what a text is mostly about, and the main character is the most important person in a story. In maths, the main question in a word problem is what you must find. In safety, mains electricity is strong enough to kill, so never poke things into sockets; a burst water main floods streets. Phrases: main idea, main character, main road, main course, mainly, the main thing, in the main.

### examples

- Moreover, if the y was originally a vowel only and had no sound of g, as main- tained by Jerome, it can have only one vowel sound. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/main/#x1)
- What is the main idea of this paragraph? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/main/#x2)
- Harry is the main character in the book. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/main/#x3)
- Turn left onto the main road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/main/#x4)
- The main thing is that nobody got hurt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/main/#x5)
- For my main course I'll have fish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/main/#x6)
- A water main burst and flooded the street. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/main/#x7)
- Never touch mains electricity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/main/#x8)
- The main entrance is at the front of the school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/main/#x9)
- Yet its main incidents occur with frequency in Continental folk-tales. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/main/#x10)

### note

As an adjective, main always goes before the noun: «the main door», never «the door is main». Adverb: mainly (mostly). Do not confuse with «mane», the long hair on a horse or lion (same sound). The Main is also a river in Germany.

### In the corpora

- [Long extra explanations can hide mistakes, even when the main answer is right.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/4-stories-jokes-and-riddles/14/)
- [Jumping spiders hunt by sight with two big front eyes; many see colour, and their main eyes can swivel inside the head.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites/8/)
- [Rabies is a virus carried in the spit of infected animals, and in many countries street dogs are the main source.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal/11/)
- [Sousliks are a main food for steppe eagles, imperial eagles and steppe polecats, so when souslik colonies disappear these hunters disappear too.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova/13/)
- [A summary tells the main events in a few words, not every detail.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/22-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting/26/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «main» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/main/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.