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I . main [meɪn] ADJ

II . main [meɪn] N

2. main:

mains pl Brit ELEC, to plug sth into the mains
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Phrases:

in the main
w większości

main office N

main road N

water main N

Usage examples with mains

mains pl Brit ELEC, to plug sth into the mains
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Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

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The 350-16 had an interesting bug where, occasionally, the machine would just freeze entirely and not even boot up if turned off and on at the mains.
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The power supplies allowed gramophones to be powered from mains electricity or with a wind-up mechanism.
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Up to 300,000 tons of mains water per year is used in the station, however it has to be cleaned of impurities before use.
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Rates were used by local authorities to provide services such as mains water and refuse collection.
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Five pumping stations kept the mains pressurised, assisted by accumulators.
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Extensive proving work by the gas and water industries has demonstrated the feasibility of upsizing gas mains, water mains and sewers.
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Nor had the fire mains or drainage systems been completed as their pumps had not been delivered and the ship lacked portable submersible pumps.
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Historically the expression was sometimes used to describe devices used to power battery-driven equipment from mains electricity.
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To prevent this in tube equipment, the voltage can be slowly brought up using a variable transformer (variac) on the mains, over a twenty or thirty minute interval.
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The light was converted to mains electricity in 1974.
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