psychological feature | a feature of the mental life of a living organism |
twin bill doubleheader double feature | two games instead of one (especially in baseball when the same two teams play two games on the same day) |
surprise attack coup de main | an attack without warning |
electric main | a main that distributes electricity |
feature | an article of merchandise that is displayed or advertised more than other articles |
gas main | a main that distributes gas |
headquarters central office main office home office home base | (usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise, many companies have their headquarters in New York |
highway main road | a major road for any form of motor transport |
main | a principal pipe in a system that distributes water or gas or electricity or that collects sewage |
main course | a square mainsail |
main deck second deck | the uppermost sheltered deck that runs the entire length of a large vessel |
main drag | the main street of a town or city |
main line | the principal route of a transportation system |
main rotor | rotor consisting of large rotating airfoils on a singleotor helicopter that produce the lift to support the helicopter in the air |
main street high street | street that serves as a principal thoroughfare for traffic in a town |
main-topmast | the topmast next above the mainmast |
main-topsail | a topsail set on the mainmast |
main yard | yard for a square mainsail |
riser riser pipe riser pipeline riser main | a vertical pipe in a building |
sewer main sewer line | a main in a sewage system |
water main | main (a pipe or conduit) for conveying water |
feature lineament | the characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin, an expression of pleasure crossed his features, his lineaments were very regular |
feature characteristic | a prominent attribute or aspect of something, the map showed roads and other features, generosity is one of his best characteristics |
feature of speech feature | (linguistics) a distinctive characteristic of a linguistic unit that serves to distinguish it from other units of the same kind |
attraction attractor attracter attractive feature magnet | a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts, flowers are an attractor for bees |
peculiarity distinctive feature distinguishing characteristic | an odd or unusual characteristic |
safety feature | feature of an artifact that is added to insure a user's safety |
feature feature article | a special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine, they ran a feature on retirement planning |
citation form main entry word entry word | the form of a word that heads a lexical entry and is alphabetized in a dictionary |
main clause independent clause | a clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence |
master file main file | (computer science) a computer file that is used as the authority in a given job and that is relatively permanent |
feature feature film | the principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater, the feature tonight is `Casablanca' |
entree main course | the principal dish of a meal |
main diagonal principal diagonal | the diagonal of a square matrix running from the upper left entry to the lower right entry |
Main Street | any small town (or the people who inhabit it), generally used to represent parochialism and materialism (after a novel by Sinclair Lewis), Main Street will never vote for a liberal politician |
Frankfurt on the Main Frankfurt Frankfort | a German city, an industrial and commercial and financial center |
main briny | any very large body of (salt) water |
have feature | have as a feature, This restaurant features the most famous chefs in France |
sport feature boast | wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner, she was sporting a new hat |
independent main(a) | (of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence, the main (or independent) clause in a complex sentence has at least a subject and a verb |
chief(a) main(a) primary(a) principal(a) master(a) | most important element, the chief aim of living, the main doors were of solid glass, the principal rivers of America, the principal example, policemen were primary targets, the master bedroom, a master switch |
main(a) | of force, of the greatest possible intensity, by main strength |
generally in general in the main | without distinction of one from others, he is interested in snakes in general |
chiefly principally primarily mainly in the main | for the most part, he is mainly interested in butterflies |