Main vs. Principal

Mainadjective

Of chief or leading importance; prime, principal.

Mainadjective

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

Mainadjective

Full, sheer, undivided.

Mainadjective

(dialectal) Big; angry.

Mainadjective

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

Mainadjective

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

Mainadverb

Exceedingly, extremely, greatly, mightily, very, very much.

Mainverb

(transitive) lang=en

Mainverb

To mainly play a specific character, or side, during a game.

Mainverb

(obsolete) Of a road: to convert into a main or primary road.

Mainnoun

That which is chief or principal; the chief or main portion; the bulk, the greater part, gross.

Mainnoun

(video gaming) The primary character that one plays in a video game in which one can play more than one character.

Mainnoun

A large cable or pipe providing utility service to an area or a building, such as a water main or electric main.

Mainnoun

(informal) lang=en

Mainnoun

The high seas.

Mainnoun

The mainland.

Mainnoun

(nautical) lang=en

Mainnoun

Force, power, strength, violent effort.

Mainnoun

A hand or match in a game of dice.

Mainnoun

The largest throw in a match at dice; in the game of hazard, a number from one to nine called out by a person before the dice are thrown.

Mainnoun

A stake played for at dice.

Mainnoun

A sporting contest or match, especially a cockfighting match.

Mainnoun

A banker's shovel for coins.

Mainnoun

A basket for gathering grapes.

Mainnoun

A hand or match at dice.

Mainnoun

A stake played for at dice.

Mainnoun

The largest throw in a match at dice; a throw at dice within given limits, as in the game of hazard.

Mainnoun

A match at cockfighting.

Mainnoun

A main-hamper.

Mainnoun

Strength; force; might; violent effort.

Mainnoun

The chief or principal part; the main or most important thing.

Mainnoun

The great sea, as distinguished from an arm, bay, etc. ; the high sea; the ocean.

Mainadjective

Very or extremely strong.

Mainadjective

Vast; huge.

Mainadjective

Unqualified; absolute; entire; sheer.

Mainadjective

Principal; chief; first in size, rank, importance, etc.; as, the main reason to go; the main proponent.

Mainadjective

Important; necessary.

Mainadverb

Very; extremely; as, main heavy.

Mainnoun

any very large body of (salt) water

Mainnoun

a principal pipe in a system that distributes water or gas or electricity or that collects sewage

Mainadjective

most important element;

Mainadjective

of a clause; able to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence;

Mainadjective

of force; of the greatest possible intensity;

Principaladjective

Primary; most important.

Principaladjective

Of or relating to a prince; princely.

Principalnoun

The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.

Principalnoun

The chief administrator of a school.

Principalnoun

The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.

Principalnoun

(legal) A legal person that authorizes another (the agent) to act on one′s behalf; or on whose behalf an agent or gestor in a negotiorum gestio acts.

Principalnoun

(legal) The primary participant in a crime.

Principalnoun

(North America) A partner or owner of a business.

Principalnoun

(music) A diapason, a type of organ stop on a pipe organ.

Principalnoun

The construction that gives shape and strength to a roof, generally a truss of timber or iron; or, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing.

Principalnoun

The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.

Principalnoun

One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned.

Principalnoun

(obsolete) An essential point or rule; a principle.

Principalnoun

A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.

Principalnoun

(computing) A security principal.

Principaladjective

Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers of a Government; the principal men of a state; the principal productions of a country; the principal arguments in a case.

Principaladjective

Of or pertaining to a prince; princely.

Principalnoun

A leader, chief, or head; one who takes the lead; one who acts independently, or who has controlling authority or influence; as, the principal of a faction, a school, a firm, etc.; - distinguished from a subordinate, abettor, auxiliary, or assistant.

Principalnoun

The chief actor in a crime, or an abettor who is present at it, - as distinguished from an accessory.

Principalnoun

A thing of chief or prime importance; something fundamental or especially conspicuous.

Principalnoun

the original amount of a debt on which interest is calculated

Principalnoun

the educator who has executive authority for a school;

Principalnoun

an actor who plays a principal role

Principalnoun

capital as contrasted with the income derived from it

Principalnoun

the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account

Principaladjective

most important element;

Principaladjective

first in order of importance; main

Principaladjective

denoting an original sum invested or lent

Principalnoun

the most important or senior person in an organization or group

Principalnoun

the head of a school, college, or other educational institution

Principalnoun

the leading performer in a concert, play, ballet, or opera

Principalnoun

the leading player in each section of an orchestra

Principalnoun

(in certain professions) a fully qualified practitioner

Principalnoun

(in the UK) a senior civil servant in charge of a particular section.

Principalnoun

a sum of money lent or invested, on which interest is paid

Principalnoun

a person for whom another acts as an agent or representative

Principalnoun

the person directly responsible for a crime.

Principalnoun

each of the combatants in a duel.

Principalnoun

a main rafter supporting purlins.

Principalnoun

an organ stop sounding a main register of open flue pipes typically an octave above the diapason