mainline
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: compound
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Etymology: From main + line.
Compound parts: main
line
Inflected forms:
form: main-line
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: mainlines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mainlining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mainlined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mainlined
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Normal, principal or standard.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Not fundamentalist, charismatic or evangelical.
pos: adj
tags: US
not-comparable
examples: At a time when mainline denominations are engaged in massive closures of small rural churches, independent charismatics are strategically helping to rechurch rural Canada.
This doesn’t necessarily mean Christians are joining mainline congregations — the survey measures self-identification, not church affiliation. It is, nevertheless, a striking turnabout after years when mainline Protestantism was considered moribund and evangelical Christianity full of dynamism.
gloss: Of or pertaining to the principal route or line of a railway.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or pertaining to a surface-level heavy rail system as distinct from an underground, elevated or light rail one.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or pertaining to national or long-distance rail network operators as opposed to urban and suburban operators.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Merseyrail and mainline services affected by downpour with more heavy rain forecast
Well-publicised flexible ticketing options are needed for both visitors and workers, integrated across the entire journey: from outside the capital all the way into central London, considering both TfL and mainline rail services.
gloss: Pertaining to a direct route between two major ports.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of a sequence of opening moves: being part of a main line ("a standard sequence of opening moves considered to be best play").
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: After 3 e5 the Czech Benoni Defense is created. Unlike the mainline 3 e6, which aims for tactical counterplay in the center, Black aims for solidity there. He will choose later what flank to attack on.
Short's pragmatic approach to the match was to avoid mainline theory and the teenager's computer preparation.
The first classical game featured a fairly mainline Nimzo-Indian Defense, with the players following one of So's October 2021 games until move 20.
gloss: To inject (a drug) directly into a vein.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: The patient skinpopped for 1½ years and then started to mainline heroin.
gloss: To consume voraciously.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
informal
transitive
examples: Last month, she lamented that her busy campaign schedule had kept her from mainlining Amazon’s new “Rings of Power” series.
gloss: To integrate (code, etc.) into the main repository for a software project, rather than separate forks.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To include (a prisoner) in the general population of a prison.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: mainliner
mainlining
Translations:
lang: Swedish
word: stambana