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portion of the infrastructure that carries communication signals from the main system to the end user's business or home, often involving greater expense...

(The Home by Lochburn), stanza IV, page 104: [T]hough remote / From the main ocean many a mile / Inflooded past cape, creek, and kyle, / The sea-loch...

Used after a vowel and before the letter d. For details on usage, see the main lemma. Proto-Athabaskan *də- (valency decrease), from Proto-Na-Dene *də-...

stretch (the limbs) L’oiseau étend ses ailes pour voler. The bird spreads its wings to fly. Elle étend la main pour le prendre. She is stretching her...

add an English translation of this usage example) voler de ses propres ailes ― (please add an English translation of this usage example) (falconry, transitive)...

fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices). It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale...

Cochrane, “Cheap, cool and kind to nature: how secondhand became UK fashion’s main attraction”, in The Observer‎[3]: Childrenswear is now the fastest growing...

masthead, imprint (list of a publication's main staff) (cinematography) rough cut (slang) prison, jail ail des ours herbe aux ours il ne faut pas vendre...

purpose, sometimes cause; sometimes correlating with tāpēc, tādēļ in the main clause; so that, in order to, in order that lai varētu labāk pārredzēt apkārtni...

derived from verbs, particularly nouns representing tools and instruments The main form of this suffix is -culum, but various alternative forms exist. Most...

choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish...

idioms such as de seconde main or seconde nature. (ordinal): deuxième dans un second temps de second ordre de seconde main de seconde zone état second...

Roger P. Roess, Gene Sansone, The Wheels That Drove New York, page 294: The main section of the Sixth Avenue El from Morris Street to Ninth Avenue and 53rd...

recurring date, month, or other specific time (on which the event of the main clause took place) and a period of time indicating how long ago that day...

1810, Thomas H. Williamson, The East India Vade-Mecum, page 452: [T]he main part of the operation of pitching the tent, consisting of raising the flies...

subordinate clauses and gerunds) To move toward the agent or subject of the main clause. King Cnut couldn't stop the tide coming. He threw the boomerang,...

Long Islander Lorrainer lowlander Luxembourger Luxemburger Magdeburger Mainer mainlander Mannheimer Maorilander marcher marshlander Marylander Mashonalander...

pronoun for introducing a subordinate clause that narrows the scope of the main clause; which, that; what; who Znam takiego gościa, co ma konia. I know a...

Thesaurus:arrogant 1794, Alexander Ross, [Joseph Ritson, compiler], “Song XXVII. What Ails the Lasses at Me. […] [Billet by Jeany Gradden.]”, in Scotish Songs. In Two...

Pa., New York, N.Y.: Information Science Reference, →ISBN, page 540: His main interests area are centered in the treatment of the medical images, inter-hospitalary...