mainline

About 0.61 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Normal, principal or standard.
2. adjective Not fundamentalist, charismatic or evangelical.
3. adjective Of or pertaining to the principal route or line of a railway.
4. adjective Of or pertaining to a surface-level heavy rail system as distinct from an underground, elevated or light rail one.
5. adjective Of or pertaining to national or long-distance rail network operators as opposed to urban and suburban operators.
6. adjective Pertaining to a direct route between two major ports.
7. adjective Of a sequence of opening moves: being part of a main line ("a standard sequence of opening moves considered to be best play").
8. verb To inject (a drug) directly into a vein.

Similar words

primary principal main traditional danger north alpine waterway trunk nord

Often followed by

churches protestant protestants denominations protestantism and church christian religion

Word family

mainlined mainlines mainlining