Main

Main may refer to:

  • Main (river), a major river and tributary of the Rhine in Germany
  • Main River (Chukotka), a river in Far Eastern Siberia
  • Main River, an unincorporated community in Weldford Parish, New Brunswick, Canada
  • Main River (Newfoundland), a river in Newfoundland, Canada
  • Main (Northern Ireland), a river in Northern Ireland as seen at Map of Northern Ireland near the town of Ballymena
  • Saint Laurent Boulevard, a street in Montreal, Quebec, Canada is known as "The Main"
  • Spanish Main, a name given to the Caribbean coast
  • Main Street, a generic street name
  • Main (lunar crater), a crater on the moon
  • Main function (programming), a common function in some programming languages
  • Main (surname), people with the surname Main
  • Main (band), experimental musicians
  • Ma'in, alternate spelling for the Minaeans, an ancient people of modern-day Yemen during the 1st millennium BC
  • Water main
  • Main course
  • Gas main
  • Chas. T. Main, an engineering company, later bought by Parsons Corporation
  • main as a synonym for the ocean, as in the song "Sailing, Sailing"
  • Mountain Area Information Network, an Internet service provider and web hosting service and operator of WPVM-LP (MAIN-FM) Asheville, North Carolina, USA

Famous quotes containing the word main:

    “Aggression, the writer’s main source of energy.”
    —Ted Solotaroff (b. 1928)

    “Of all wit’s uses, the main one
    Is to live well with who has none.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The main thing is that everything become simple, easy enough for a child to understand; that each act be ordered, that good and evil be decided arbitrarily, thus clearly.”
    —Albert Camus (1913–1960)