Major vs. Main
Majornoun
a military rank between captain and lieutenant colonel
Majornoun
The main area of study of a student working toward a degree at a college or university.
Majornoun
A student at a college or university concentrating on a given area of study.
Majornoun
A person of legal age.
Majornoun
(logic) The major premise.
Majornoun
(Canadian football) An alternate term for touchdown; short for "major score".
Majornoun
A large, commercially successful record label, as opposed to an indie.
Majornoun
An elder brother (especially at a public school).
Majornoun
(zoology) A large leaf-cutter ant that acts as a soldier, defending the nest.
Majoradjective
Of great significance or importance.
Majoradjective
Greater in number, quantity, or extent
Majoradjective
Of full legal age, having attained majority
Majoradjective
(music) Of a scale that follows the pattern: tone - tone - semitone - tone - tone - tone - semitone
Majoradjective
(music) Being the larger of two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number.
Majoradjective
(music) Containing the note a major third (four half steps) above the tonic.
Majorverb
(intransitive) to concentrate on a particular area of study as a student in a college or university
Majoradjective
Greater in number, quantity, or extent; as, the major part of the assembly; the major part of the revenue; the major part of the territory.
Majoradjective
Of greater dignity; more important.
Majoradjective
Of full legal age; adult.
Majoradjective
Greater by a semitone, either in interval or in difference of pitch from another tone.
Majornoun
An officer next in rank above a captain and next below a lieutenant colonel; the lowest field officer.
Majornoun
A person of full age.
Majornoun
That premise which contains the major term. It its the first proposition of a regular syllogism; as: No unholy person is qualified for happiness in heaven [the major]. Every man in his natural state is unholy [minor]. Therefore, no man in his natural state is qualified for happiness in heaven [conclusion or inference].
Majornoun
A mayor.
Majornoun
a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines; below lieutenant colonel and above captain
Majornoun
British statesman who was prime minister from 1990 until 1997 (born in 1943)
Majornoun
a university student who is studying a particular field as the principal subject;
Majornoun
the principal field of study of a student at a university;
Majorverb
have as one's principal field of study;
Majoradjective
of greater importance or stature or rank;
Majoradjective
greater in scope or effect;
Majoradjective
greater in number or size or amount;
Majoradjective
of the field of academic study in which one concentrates or specializes;
Majoradjective
of a scale or mode;
Majoradjective
of greater seriousness or danger;
Majoradjective
of full legal age;
Majoradjective
of the elder of two boys with the same family name;
Majoradjective
important, serious, or significant
Majoradjective
greater or more important; main
Majoradjective
(of a surgical operation) serious or life-threatening
Majoradjective
(of a scale) having intervals of a semitone between the third and fourth, and seventh and eighth degrees.
Majoradjective
(of an interval) equivalent to that between the tonic and another note of a major scale, and greater by a semitone than the corresponding minor interval
Majoradjective
(of a key) based on a major scale, tending to produce a bright or joyful effect
Majoradjective
(appended to a surname in public schools) indicating the elder of two brothers.
Majoradjective
(of a term) occurring as the predicate in the conclusion of a categorical syllogism.
Majoradjective
(of a premise) containing the major term in a categorical syllogism.
Majornoun
a rank of officer in the army and the US air force, above captain and below lieutenant colonel.
Majornoun
an officer in charge of a section of band instruments
Majornoun
a major key, interval, or scale.
Majornoun
a system of change-ringing using eight bells.
Majornoun
a major organization or competition
Majornoun
a student's principal subject or course
Majornoun
a student specializing in a specified subject
Majornoun
a major term or premise.
Majornoun
short for major suit
Majornoun
a goal.
Majorverb
specialize in (a particular subject) at college or university
Major
Major is a military rank of commissioned officer status, with corresponding ranks existing in many military forces throughout the world.
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;
