{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "meɪn" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (GA)", "url": "" }, { "lang": "Audio (AU)", "url": "" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English mayn, main, maine, mæin, meyn, from main (noun) (see further at etymology 2); compare Old English mægen- (“strong, main, principal”) (used in combination) and Old Norse megn, megenn (“strong, main”). \nThe word is cognate with Old High German megīn (“strong, mighty”) (modern German Möge, Vermögen (“power, wealth”)), and also akin to Old English magan (“to be able to”). See also may.", "From Middle English mayn, main, maine, mæine, mæȝen, from Old English mæġen (“strength”), from Proto-Germanic *maginą (“strength, power, might”), *maginaz (“strong”), from Proto-Indo-European *megʰ- (“be able”). \nThe word is cognate with Old High German magen, megin, Old Norse magn, megn, megin, Old Saxon megin. More recent senses are derived from the adjective.", "Uncertain; probably from the adjective main. Evidence is lacking for a derivation from French main (“hand”).", "Uncertain, possibly from French main (“hand”)." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Of chief or leading importance; prime, principal." }, { "mean": "Chief, most important, or principal in extent, size, or strength; consisting of the largest part.\nSynonym: largest\nmain timbers\nmain branch of a river\nmain body of an army" }, { "mean": "(archaic, of force, strength, etc.) Full, sheer, undivided." }, { "mean": "(dialectal) Big; angry." }, { "mean": "(nautical) Belonging to or connected with the principal mast in a vessel." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) Great in size or degree; important, powerful, strong, vast." } ] }, { "name": "Adverb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(Britain, dialectal) Exceedingly, extremely, greatly, mightily, very, very much.\n1754, Samuel Foote, “The Knights”, in The Knights. A Comedy, in Two Acts. , Dublin: Printed by Richard James, , →OCLC, Act II, page 35:Suck. A Draught of Ale, Friend, for I'm main dry. / Pen. Fie! fie! Niece! Is that Liquor for a young Lady? Don't disparage your Family and Breeding!\n1778, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, “The Camp: A Musical Entertainment”, in The Dramatic Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. With a Memoir of the Author (Dove’s English Classics), London: Printed and published by J. F. Dove, , published c. 1813–1828, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, page 309:Why, it's main jolly to be sure, and all that so fair." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive, slang) Short for mainline (“to inject (a drug) directly into a vein”)." }, { "mean": "(transitive, gaming) To mainly play a specific character or side, or with specific equipment, during a game.\nHe mains the same character as me in that game.\nWhat race do you main and what is your favourite race to beat?\nFor new players, I recommend maining the dagger and using the axe as a backup weapon.\n2017 January 25, Dave Smith, “After Weeks of Bugging Him on Twitter, Elon Musk just Told Me His ‘Dark Secret’”, in Business Insider‎, archived from the original on 30 March 2017:Now, full disclosure: I too main Soldier 76 in \"Overwatch\" (by the way, the term \"maining\" is parlance for the most-often used character you play in a given game)." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) To convert (a road) into a main or primary road.\n1904, Arthur Underhill, Charles Otto Blagden , editors, An Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents Other than Court Forms, volume 6, London: Butterworth, →OCLC:When a rural district council considers that a highway in its district ought to become a main road by reason of its being a medium of communication between great towns, or a thoroughfare to a railway station, or otherwise, it may apply to the county council for an order \"maining\" the road under s. 15 of the Highways and Locomotives (Amendment) Act, 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 77), as amended by s. 3 (viii.) of the Local Government Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 41), and the county council may make an order accordingly.\n1927, The Municipal Journal and Public Works Engineer, volume XXXVI, London: Municipal Journal, →OCLC: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." } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "That which is chief or principal; the chief or main portion; the bulk, the greater part, gross.", "submean": [ "(video games) The primary character that one plays in a video game in which one can play more than one character.\nAntonym: alt\nMy WoW main has reached level cap and I’m on my way getting my first alt there as well." ] }, { "mean": "A large cable or pipe providing utility service to an area or a building, such as a water main or electric main." }, { "mean": "(informal) Short for main course (“the principal dish of a meal”).\nI had scampi and chips for my main and a slice of cheesecake for dessert." }, { "mean": "(now poetic) The high seas." }, { "mean": "(now archaic, US dialectal) The mainland." }, { "mean": "(nautical) Short for mainsail." }, { "mean": "(obsolete, except in might and main) Force, power, strength, violent effort." } ] }, { "name": "Noun_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(obsolete, gaming) A hand or match in a game of dice.\n1689 May 14, Mr. Prior , “Epistle to Fleetwood Shephard, Esq.”, in “Mr. Gentleman” , The New Pleasing Instructor: Or, Entertaining Moralist. , York, Yorkshire: Printed by C. Etherington, for John Bell, and C. Etherington, , published 1772, →OCLC, page 370: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;" }, { "mean": "(obsolete, gaming) 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.\n1598, Richard Barckley, “To the Reader”, in A Discourse of the Felicitie of Man: Or His Summum Bonum, London: Printed for VVilliam Ponsonby, →OCLC; republished as “To the Reader”, in A Discovrse of the Felicite of Man. Or His Summum Bonum, newly corrected and augmented edition, London: Printed for VVilliam Ponsonby, 1603, →OCLC: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.\n1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 44, in The History of Pendennis. , volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, , published 1849–1850, →OCLC:I had such a run of luck last night, with five for the main, and seven to five all night, until those ruffians wanted to pay me with Altamont’s bill upon me. The luck turned from that minute. Never held the box again for three mains, and came away cleared out, leaving that infernal cheque behind me." }, { "mean": "(obsolete, gaming) A stake played for at dice.\nc. 1597 (date written), , The History of Henrie the Fourth; , quarto edition, London: P S for Andrew Wise, , published 1598, →OCLC, :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?Is it good / To bet all of our wealth / On one throw of the dice? To place so high a stake / On the risky hazard of one doubtful hour?" }, { "mean": "(obsolete, gaming, sports) A sporting contest or match, especially a cockfighting match.\n1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, “After Good Fortune Comes Evil”, in The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. , volume I, London: Smith, Elder, & Company, , →OCLC, page 171: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;" }, { "mean": "A banker's shovel for coins." } ] }, { "name": "Noun_3", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(obsolete, rare) A basket for gathering grapes.\n, 3rd edition, London: Printed by C. and J. Ackers, for W Mount and T Page , →OCLC, column 1:A main Corbis vindemiatorius]" } ] }, { "name": "Further_reading", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "main (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia \n Main (power) in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)" } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "", "", "", "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "형용사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "부사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "", "submean": [ "" ] }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사_3", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "추가_판독", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }