(n.) The largest throw in a match at dice; a throw at dice within given limits, as in the game of hazard.
(n.) A match at cockfighting.
(n.) A main-hamper.
(v.) Strength; force; might; violent effort.
(v.) The chief or principal part; the main or most important thing.
(v.) The great sea, as distinguished from an arm, bay, etc. ; the high sea; the ocean.
(v.) The continent, as distinguished from an island; the mainland.
(v.) principal duct or pipe, as distinguished from lesser ones; esp. (Engin.), a principal pipe leading to or from a reservoir; as, a fire main.
(a.) Very or extremely strong.
(a.) Vast; huge.
(a.) Unqualified; absolute; entire; sheer.
(a.) Principal; chief; first in size, rank, importance, etc.
(a.) Important; necessary.
(a.) Very; extremely; as, main heavy.
Example Sentences:
(1) In conclusion, the efficacy of free tissue transfer in the treatment of osteomyelitis is geared mainly at enabling the surgeon to perform a wide radical debridement of infected and nonviable soft tissue and bone.
(2) Aggregation was more frequent in low-osmolal media: mainly rouleaux were formed in ioxaglate but irregular aggregates in non-ionic media.
(3) The main clinical features pertaining to the concept of the "psycho-organic syndrome" (POS) were investigated in a sample of children who suffered from severe craniocerebral trauma.
(4) Squadron Leader Kevin Harris, commander of the Merlins at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand, praised the crews, adding: "The Merlins will undergo an extensive programme of maintenance and cleaning before being packed up, ensuring they return to the UK in good order."
(5) The main finding of this study is that diabetic adolescents with a high erythrocyte Na,Li countertransport rate have an arterial pressure significantly higher than patients with normal Na,Li countertransport fluxes.
(6) We also show that the gene of the main capsid protein is expressed from its own promoter in an Escherichia coli strain.
(7) In schizophrenic patients the density of dopamine uptake sites in the basal ganglia was slightly reduced, mainly in the middle third of putamen.
(8) One of the main users is coastal planning organizations and conservation organizations that are working on coral reefs.
(9) Immunofluorescence analysis of Pr-28 antigen showed that the antigen was localized mainly in perinuclear cytoplasm.
(10) The main result of the correspondence analysis is a geometric map of this relationship showing how the relative frequencies of headache types change with age.
(11) Myocardial ischaemia was induced in perfused rabbit hearts by ligating the left main coronary artery.
(12) Thus, human bronchial epithelial cells can express the IL-8 gene, with expression in response to the inflammatory mediator TNF regulated mainly at the transcriptional level, and with elements within the 5'-flanking region of the gene that are directly or indirectly modulated by the TNF signal.
(13) Statistically significant differences were found mainly in the randomized trial, where during the first and second years, respectively, adenoidectomy subjects had 47% and 37% less time with otitis media than control subjects and 28% and 35% fewer suppurative (acute) episodes than control subjects.
(14) One of the main components was confirmed to be caffeic acid which had inhibitory effect on renal failure in mice by Ac1-P.
(15) In four main regions the conservation varied from 83-91% while in the remaining regions the homology dropped to between 56-62%.
(16) In the caudal spinal trigeminal nucleus (Vc), the collaterals of one half of the periodontium afferent fibers terminated mainly in lamina V at the rostral and middle levels of Vc.
(17) Loratadine has one main metabolite, descarbethoxyloratadine, which is four times more active than the parent drug.
(18) The structures of 1 and 2 were established mainly on the basis of nmr spectroscopic data.
(19) The main clinical symptom was pain, usually sciatica, while neurological symptoms were less common than they are in adults.
(20) Possibilities to achieve this both in the curative and the preventive field are restricted mainly due to the insufficient knowledge of their etiopathogenesis.
Mightily
Definition:
(adv.) In a mighty manner; with might; with great earnestness; vigorously; powerfully.
(adv.) To a great degree; very much.
Example Sentences:
(1) He had no business getting to that ball ahead of the full-back, who will be mightily relieved.
(2) And we have tried mightily to learn from them,” he says.
(3) "Just this week I'm assailed mightily for going after Islam and had been for a very long time before that."
(4) If Hart was hardly hyperactive either the England goalkeeper must still have been mightily relieved to see Pablo Zabaleta make a superb clearance from Townsend’s cross just as Mitrovic, on as a substitute, seemed likely to apply his forehead to it.
(5) I think you will probably be mightily rewarded by our press ,” he said.
(6) Howard Archer, UK economist with IHS Global Insight, said: "Retail sales were mightily impressive in April, even allowing for a major boost coming from the later Easter this year.
(7) (Tally Hall was mightily relieved when a similarish mistake against NYRB didn't prove decisive).
(8) Unsurprisingly, the chancellor was mightily unhappy that the IMF singled out the UK as a country that needed to rethink its approach to tax and public spending.
(9) In the email – seen by the Guardian – he calls the protesters "numb-nuts" and the police "daft", saying: "I am mightily pee'd off at the police.
(10) As expected the team struggled mightily in their disastrous first game without Paul, despite Crawford doing a decent fill-in job by leading all Clippers scorers with 24 points.
(11) Recently, the DOJ has been embarrassed mightily by an acidly damning PBS Frontline special that criticized it – among others – for not finding anyone worthy of prosecution in the morass of casual fraud and wrongdoing that was the credit crisis.
(12) Judt often missed Europe, which was after all his subject, but he flourished mightily in America.
(13) Being constantly slapped down by his boss could be seen as mightily embarrassing to Hammond.
(14) So Egyptian authorities will doubtless be mightily relieved that Tuesday’s hijacking does not have links to Isis-related terror – as one official told the Guardian, not a terrorist, just an idiot.
(15) With that sort of career path in mind, little wonder the parliamentary secretary was mightily miffed by Mallah’s TV appearance.
(16) In Greece, most of the “rescue” funds in the temporary “assistance” programmes are allocated for payments to existing creditors , while the country is forced into austerity policies that have contributed mightily to a 25% decline in GDP and have left its population worse off.
(17) Even so the Gallowgate End were mightily relieved when, with Steven Taylor off the pitch having a facial wound stitched, Jordi Gómez spurned a golden opportunity.
(18) In the US, some believers have given up their jobs and donated money they think they will no longer need to pay for more than 2,000 billboards across the country proclaiming "Judgment Day: May 21, 2011 – Cry mightily unto God.
(19) Indigenous presence must be confined, erased and then forgotten, so that the United States may continue to live upon and profit mightily from lands taken from indigenous people.
(20) I'm told that Miliband's office saw an early draft which had plenty more on those subjects, including statements that had them raising their "eyebrows to the heavens" – and which they were mightily relieved to see did not make the final version.