Fringe vs. Mainstream
Fringenoun
A decorative border.
Fringenoun
A marginal or peripheral part.
Fringenoun
Those members of a political party, or any social group, holding unorthodox views.
Fringenoun
The periphery of a town or city.
Fringenoun
(UK) nodot=a: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle where it is cut straight across.
Fringenoun
(physics) A light or dark band formed by the diffraction of light.
Fringenoun
Non-mainstream theatre.
Fringenoun
(botany) The peristome or fringe-like appendage of the capsules of most mosses.
Fringenoun
(golf) The area around the green
Fringenoun
(AU) Used attributively with reference to Aboriginal people living on the edge of towns etc.
Fringeadjective
Outside the mainstream.
Fringeverb
(transitive) To decorate with fringe.
Fringeverb
(transitive) To serve as a fringe.
Fringenoun
An ornamental appendage to the border of a piece of stuff, originally consisting of the ends of the warp, projecting beyond the woven fabric; but more commonly made separate and sewed on, consisting sometimes of projecting ends, twisted or plaited together, and sometimes of loose threads of wool, silk, or linen, or narrow strips of leather, or the like.
Fringenoun
Something resembling in any respect a fringe; a line of objects along a border or edge; a border; an edging; a margin; a confine.
Fringenoun
One of a number of light or dark bands, produced by the interference of light; a diffraction band; - called also interference fringe.
Fringenoun
The peristome or fringelike appendage of the capsules of most mosses. See Peristome.
Fringeverb
To adorn the edge of with a fringe or as with a fringe.
Fringenoun
the outside boundary or surface of something
Fringenoun
a part of the city far removed from the center;
Fringenoun
a social group holding marginal or extreme views;
Fringenoun
edging consisting of hanging threads or tassels
Fringeverb
adorn with a fringe;
Fringeverb
decorate with or as if with a surrounding fringe;
Mainstreamadjective
Used or accepted broadly rather than by small portions of a population or market.
Mainstreamnoun
The principal current in a flow, such as a river or flow of air
Mainstreamnoun
That which is common; the norm.
Mainstreamverb
(transitive) To popularize, to normalize, to render mainstream.
Mainstreamverb
(intransitive) To become mainstream.
Mainstreamverb
To educate (a disabled student) together with non-disabled students.
Mainstreamnoun
The prevailing opinion or practise; as, the doctor avoided using therapies outside the mainstream of modern medical practice.
Mainstreamverb
TO place (a student) in regular school classes; - used especially of mentally or physically handicapped children.
Mainstreamnoun
the prevailing current of thought;
Mainstream
The mainstream is the prevalent current thought that is widespread.It includes all popular culture and media culture, typically disseminated by mass media. This word is sometimes used in a pejorative sense by subcultures who view ostensibly mainstream culture as not only exclusive but artistically and aesthetically inferior.It is to be distinguished from subcultures and countercultures, and at the opposite extreme are cult followings and fringe theories.
