English Dictionary

main

IPA（発音記号）

/meɪn/

形容詞

比較不可 古語 強制 通常 方言 廃用

Of chief or leading importance; prime, principal. / Chief, most important, or principal in extent, size, or strength; consisting of the largest part.

日本語の意味

主要な、最も重要な / 主たる、第一の / 大部分を占める、主な

The main reason the committee postponed the vote was new evidence presented at the meeting.

委員会が採決を延期した主な理由は、会議で提出された新しい証拠でした。

意味（1）

Of chief or leading importance; prime, principal.

Religion direct us rather to ſecure inward peace than outward eaſe, to be more careful to avoid everlaſting and intolerable torment than ſhort and light afflictions which are but for a moment; […] In a word, our main intereſt is to be as happy as we can, and as long as is poſſible; and if we be caſt into ſuch circumſtances, that we muſt be either in part and for a time or elſe wholly and always miſerable, the beſt wiſdom is to chuſe the greateſt and moſt laſting happiness, but the leaſt and ſhorteſt miſery.

意味（2）

Chief, most important, or principal in extent, size, or strength; consisting of the largest part.

main timbers

意味（3）

(archaic, of force, strength, etc.) Full, sheer, undivided.

[…] I shall never forget the diabolical sneer which writhed Rashleigh's wayward features, as I was forced from the apartment by the main strength of two of these youthful Titans.

意味（4）

(dialectal) Big; angry.

意味（5）

(nautical) Belonging to or connected with the principal mast in a vessel.

意味（6）

(obsolete) Great in size or degree; important, powerful, strong, vast.

And now that Current with main Fury ran / (The Stop remov'd that did the Courſe defend) / Unto the full of Miſchief, that began / T' an univerſal Ruin to extend; […]