Main (disambiguation)
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Main may refer to:
- Main (river), a major river and tributary of the Rhine in Germany
- Main River (Chukotka)Main River (Chukotka)The Mayn River , sometimes spelled Main River, is a river in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug in Russia, one of the major tributaries of the Anadyr River. The length of the river is 475 km. The area of is drainage basin is 32,800 km²...
, a river in Far Eastern Siberia - Main River, an unincorporated community in Weldford Parish, New BrunswickWeldford Parish, New BrunswickWeldford is a local service district found in Kent County, New Brunswick, Canada that was established in 1835 with a local Agricultural Association and named for John W. Weldon and John P...
, Canada - Main River (Newfoundland)Main River (Newfoundland)Main River is a river in Newfoundland, Canada, a very popular canoeing destination. It is 57 km long, originates in the Long Range Mountains and enters the sea at White Bay.Main River was designated a Canadian Heritage River in February 2001.-References:*...
, a river in Newfoundland, Canada - Main (Northern Ireland), a river in Northern Ireland as seen at Map of Northern Ireland near the town of Ballymena
- Saint Laurent Boulevard, a street in Montreal, Quebec, Canada is known as "The Main"
- Spanish MainSpanish MainIn the days of the Spanish New World Empire, the mainland of the American continent enclosing the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico was referred to as the Spanish Main. It included present-day Florida, the east shore of the Gulf of Mexico in Texas, Mexico, Central America and the north coast of...
, a name given to the Caribbean coast - Main StreetMain StreetMain Street is the metonym for a generic street name of the primary retail street of a village, town, or small city in many parts of the world...
, a generic street name - Main (lunar crater)Main (lunar crater)Main is a lunar crater that is located near the north pole of the Moon. The southern rim of this formation has merged with the larger crater Challis to the south, and the level interior floor connects the two craters through a narrower gap...
, a crater on the moon - Main function (programming)Main function (programming)In many programming languages, the main function is where a program starts execution. It is responsible for the high-level organization of the program's functionality, and typically has access to the command arguments given to the program when it was executed....
, a common function in some programming languages - Main (surname)Main (surname)Main as a surname may refer to* Alan Main, Scottish association football player* Anne Main, British politician* Bert Main, Australian zoologist* Grant Main, Canadian rower* James Main, Scottish association football player...
, people with the surname Main - Main (band)Main (band)Main were a British ambient band formed in 1991 by guitarists Robert Hampson and Scott Dowson, the former members of Loop. They combined ambient sound with layers of electric guitars and dark, foreboding emotional overtones. In 2006 Hampson announced that Main had been effectively disbanded in...
, experimental musicians - Ma'in, alternate spelling for the MinaeansMinaeansThe Minaeans from Arabic or were an ancient Arab group in Yemen during the 1st millennium BC. Their Minaean Kingdom was one of important kingdoms in ancient Yemen and Southwestern Arabia...
, an ancient people of modern-day Yemen during the 1st millennium BC - Water main
- Gas main
- Chas. T. MainChas. T. Main-History:It was founded in 1893 by Charles T. Main, an engineer for the textile mills of New England. It was privately owned by its senior engineers, it being felt that this would leave decision making to those that knew the industry best...
, an engineering company, later bought by Parsons Corporation - main as a synonym for the ocean, as in the song "Sailing, SailingSailing, Sailing"Sailing, Sailing" is a children's song about sailing on the ocean. It was written in 1880 by Godfrey Marks, a pseudonym of British organist and composer James Frederick Swift .-Lyrics:The familiar chorus is"Sailing, Sailing" "Sailing, Sailing" (also known by its first line "Sailing, sailing,...
" - Mountain Area Information Network, an Internet service provider and web hosting service and operator of WPVM-LPWPVM-LPWPVM-LP is a Non-commercial LPFM radio station located in Asheville, North Carolina. The station is licensed by the Federal Communications Commission to broadcast with one watt of effective radiated power...
(MAIN-FM) Asheville, North Carolina, USA
See also
- Maine (disambiguation)Maine (disambiguation)Maine is a state in the United States. Maine may also refer to:-Places:*Gulf of Maine, off the coast of the US state*Maine , France*Maine , France*Maine, New York, a town*Maine, Marathon County, Wisconsin...
- Mains (disambiguation)
- Mane (disambiguation)