EGAVE

mains

About 1.17 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun plural of main
  2. noun The domestic electrical power supply, especially as connected to a network or grid.
    I plugged it into the mains and it blew up!
  3. noun A large-scale network or grid supplying any of various other services, such as water, gas or sewerage, to properties.
    We have gas heating, but it's bottled gas, not mains gas.
  4. noun The main course of a meal.
  5. verb third-person singular simple present indicative of main
  6. noun The farm attached to a mansion house.

Similar words

principal primary important independent chief intense briny of import electrical waterworks

Often followed by

and of supply are de in to or voltage

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