MAIN

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Traducere în limba română

main¹ I. substantiv

1. vigoare, forţă, putere;

with might and main din toate puterile, din răsputeri.

2. (poetic) ocean; mare deschisă, largul mării.

3. uscat; continent.

4. (tehn.) conductă principală (de apă, gaz, energie electrică);

the town mains reţeaua de canalizare a orşului.

5. (mar.) arborele mare.

6. (ferov.) linie principală.

7. corp principal (al unei clădiri).

8. (constr.) canal principal de scurgere.

9. (electr.) cablu de distribuţie.

10. (înv.) miez, inimă, element principal (al unei chestiuni etc.).

11. (înv.) parte / porţiune principală;

the main of them cei mai mulţi dintre ei;

for / in the main în general; în principal;

as to the main în ceea ce priveşte partea principală.

main¹ II. adjectiv

1. principal, esenţial, de primă importanţă;

the main thing is to start totul este să începem / pornim;

the main features of a speech punctele importante ale unui discurs.

2. (fig.) predominant.

3. (înv.) întreg, neîmpărţit; (azi folosit în expresii);

by main strength/ force cu toată puterea.

4. (dial.) supărăcios.

main¹ III. adverb

(dial., sl. rar) extrem de, foarte, cât se poate de.

main² substantiv

1. joc cu zaruri.

2. (rar) aruncătură (la jocul cu zaruri);

to fling a main a da cu zarul.

3. miză (la zaruri).

4. faţa cu care zarul cade la vedere;

seven is the main! şapte.

5. repriză (la luptele de cocoşi).

6. lopăţică de adunat mizele (la jocurile de noroc).

7. (dial.) vezi main hamper.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Medicines and surgery are the two main treatments for aneurysms.

(Aneurysms, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

Those, I think, were the main points of my analysis.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Their main function is repairing the damaged tissue.

(Scientists make white blood cells to alleviate pain, instead of producing it, during tissue inflammation, University of Granada)

It is as if you did all the hard work that the universe asked of you during the main part of 2019, and now you get your rewards.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

These were the main points of the servants’ evidence.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On one occasion they took her off the sled by main strength.

(The Call of the Wild, de Jack London)

It were a main place for pirates once, and a hand we had on board knowed all their names for it.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

A quick-looking girl of Susan's age was the very worst third in the world: totally different from Lady Bertram, all eyes and ears; and there was no introducing the main point before her.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

I endeavoured to recall him to the main fact.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Some of it, but the main part at the hotel.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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