Usually means: Primary route in a network.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. mainline: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mainline: Merriam-Webster
  3. mainline: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mainline: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mainline: Vocabulary.com
  6. Mainline, mainline: Wordnik
  7. mainline: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. mainline: Wiktionary
  9. mainline: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. mainline: Dictionary.com
  11. Mainline (Protestant), Mainline (aeronautics), Mainline (flight), Mainline (software engineering), Mainline: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. mainline: Rhymezone
  13. mainline: FreeDictionary.org
  14. mainline: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. mainline: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mainline: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mainline: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Mainline (disambiguation), mainline: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mainline, mainline, mainline: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Mainline: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Landscape Irrigation Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Normal, principal or standard.
adjective:  (rail transport) Of or pertaining to the principal route or line of a railway.
adjective:  (rail transport) Of or pertaining to a surface railway as distinct from an underground, elevated or light rail one.
adjective:  (chess) Of a sequence of opening moves: being part of a main line ("a standard sequence of opening moves considered to be best play").
verb:  (slang) To inject (a drug) directly into a vein.
verb:  (by extension, informal, transitive) To consume voraciously.
verb:  (computing, transitive) To integrate (code, etc.) into the main repository for a software project, rather than separate forks.
verb:  (transitive) To include (a prisoner) in the general population of a prison.
noun:  (aviation) An airline's main operating unit, as opposed to codeshares or regional subsidiaries.
noun:  (rail transport) The principal route or line of a railway.
noun:  (fishing) In longline fishing the central line to which the branch lines with baits are attached.
noun:  (plumbing) The pipeline carrying wastewater to the public drains or a septic tank.
noun:  (slang) A principal vein into which a drug can be injected.
noun:  (computing) The main repository for a software project, from which different versions (forks) may be split off.
noun:  The general population of a prison.
noun:  (chess) Alternative form of main line [(chess) A standard sequence of opening moves considered to be best play.]

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