Meaning of Mains | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The domestic electrical power supply, especially as connected to a network or grid.
   British, uncountable
2. The farm attached to a mansion house.
   Scotland
3. A large-scale network or grid supplying any of various other services, such as water, gas or sewerage, to properties.
   British, uncountable
4. The main course of a meal.
   uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“I plugged it into the mains and it blew up!”

“We don't have mains power out here, only a generator.”

“mains electricity, mains voltage”

“We have gas heating, but it's bottled gas, not mains gas.”

“The properties formerly relied on a well, but are now connected to the mains water supply.”

“Though no minister would visit the Skerburnfoot, or, if he went, departed quicker than he came, the girl Ailie attended regular at the catechising at the mains of Sker.”

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