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Main Memory
- - The memory in a computer that holds programs and data for rapid access during execution of a program; it usually hold the largest quantity of rapid-access storage in a computer; -- also called RAM (random access memory. It is contrasted to ROM, disk data storage, cache, registers and other forms of data storage.
Main Office
- noun - (usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise; "many companies have their headquarters in New York"
Main Street
- noun - 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"
- street that serves as a principal thoroughfare for traffic in a town
Main-Gauche
- - The dagger held in the left hand, while the rapier is held in the right; -- used to parry thrusts of the adversary's rapier.
Main-Hamper
- - A hamper to be carried in the hand; a hand basket used in carrying grapes to the press.
Mainsprings
- noun - the most important spring in a mechanical device (especially a clock or watch); as it uncoils it drives the mechanism
Mainstreams
- noun - the prevailing current of thought; "his thinking was in the American mainstream"
Maintainers
- noun - someone who upholds or maintains; "firm upholders of tradition"; "they are sustainers of the idea of democracy"
Maintaining
- verb - have and exercise; "wield power and authority"
- keep in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., "keep clean"; "hold in place"; "She always held herself as a lady"; "The students keep me on my toes"
- keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction; "We preserve these archeological findings"; "The old lady could not keep up the building"; "children must be taught to conserve our national heritage"; "The museum curator conserved the ancient manuscripts"
- maintain by writing regular records; "keep a diary"; "maintain a record"; "keep notes"
- maintain for use and service; "I keep a car in the countryside"; "She keeps an apartment in Paris for her shopping trips"
- state categorically
- state or assert; "He maintained his innocence"
- stick to correctly or closely;
- supply with necessities and support; "She alone sustained her family"; "The money will sustain our good cause"; "There's little to earn a
Maintenance
- noun - activity involved in maintaining something in good working order; "he wrote the manual on car care"
- court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated
- means of maintenance of a family or group
- the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence; "they were in want of sustenance"; "fishing was their main sustainment"
- the unauthorized interference in a legal action by a person having no interest in it (as by helping one party with money or otherwise to continue the action) so as to obstruct justice or promote unnecessary litigation or unsettle the peace of the community; "unlike champerty, criminal maintenance does not necessarily involve personal profit"