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  1. mainsnoun

    The source of electrical power in a building; the wiring system of a building.

Wiktionary

  1. mainsnoun

    The domestic electrical power supply.

    I plugged it into the mains and it blew up!

  2. mainsnoun

    The pipes of a centralized water supply that transport the water to individual buildings.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Mainsnoun

    the farm attached to a mansion house

  2. Etymology: [Scot. See Manse.]

Wikidata

  1. Mains

    Mains in Scotland normally refers to the main buildings of a farm. This may include a farmhouse, farm buildings such as a byre and dairy, and workers' cottages. It is a pseudo-plural, actually being a Lowland Scots corruption of the French demesne, and so is never used in the form "Main". The mains was usually the principal farm on an estate, or at least the one with the most fertile ground. The Laird's house - if there was one - may have been nearby or some distance away but is not usually part of the mains. The equivalent in England would be a home farm or perhaps a manor. Many mains remain as working farms, while others have been converted to residential accommodation. Sometimes the buildings and/or farm have disappeared altogether and only the name survives. Mains occurs frequently in Scottish placenames, most noticeably/frequently in the north east of the country, and east coast, extending down into Fife. The usual form is "Mains of X", without the definite article, "the", for example, "Mains of Hallhead". However, the best known example of its use in a Scottish placename is Davidson's Mains, now a suburb of Edinburgh, which does not follow this form. Indeed south of the M8, Mains names almost invariably take the form "X Mains", as in "Mordington Mains". The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary notes the same word/corruption/usage to have occurred in Northern England, and farm names of the form "X Mains" can also be found in northern Northumberland. In some cases, new owners have renamed various mains, "manor" in ignorance of the distinction in Scotland. There are also occasional instances of the media using the tautology, "Mains of X farm". In the local area, it will often be referred to as "the mains".

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Mains

    mānz, n. (Scot.) the principal or home farm.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. MAINS

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Mains is ranked #8266 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Mains surname appeared 4,010 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Mains.

    92.4% or 3,709 total occurrences were White.
    2.5% or 104 total occurrences were Black.
    2.2% or 90 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.7% or 68 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.6% or 24 total occurrences were Asian.
    0.3% or 15 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

Anagrams for mains »

  1. imans

  2. Mansi

  3. minas

  4. manis

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of mains in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of mains in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of mains in a Sentence

  1. Philip Taylor:

    Growing apples is not going to work if we have summers like this every year, our access to water at the moment is purely from the mains. To give apple trees enough water to produce a decent crop would be way too expensive.

  2. Charles de LEUSSE:

    Body is morning dew that shines to the rise of the hands. (Corps est rosée du matin - Qui brille au lever des mains.)

  3. Christine Colvin:

    This means detecting household leaks, fixing mains infrastructure leaks, more efficient water use domestically plus implementing sustainable drainage solutions as part of desperately needed green infrastructure.

  4. Charles de LEUSSE:

    The hands that are spaced are docks, where desires can dock. (Les mains écartées sont des quais, - Où les désirs peuvent accoster.)

  5. Le Tran Lua:

    I grabbed his hair immediately, i did not speak English, so I shouted out in French' haut le mains !'.

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