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Definition of Mains
1. n. The farm attached to a mansion house.
Definition of Mains
1. Noun. (plural of main) ¹
2. Noun. (chiefly British) The domestic electrical power supply. ¹
3. Noun. The pipes of a centralized water supply that transport the water to individual buildings. ¹
4. Noun. (Scotland) The farm attached to a mansion house. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mains
1. main [n] - See also: main
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mains
Literary usage of Mains
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"Among the property sold to them under the foreclosure sale were the water mains
which, when the mortgage was executed, were connected with and a part of the ..."
2. Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by United States Naval Institute (1898)
"The area of cross section of the feeders and mains on the lighting circuit ...
The size of feeders or mains to be the same throughout their entire length; ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The size of trunk mains depends upon the required volume and velocity of the
water conveyed and vary from 48 to 72 inches in ..."
4. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1908)
"It has also been found that when the gas enters the relatively colder distribution
mains some of these vapors will be dropped, the amount remaining ..."
5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1894)
""Note on tKe Possibility of obtaining a Unidirectional Current to Earth from the
mains of an Alternating Current System." By Major P. CARDEW. ..."
6. Science Abstracts by Institution of Electrical Engineers (1900)
"is shown in the accompanying sketch, in which LI, L» are the single- phase supply
mains, and Mi, Mj three-phase induction motors connected between Li, Lj, ..."
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