Duct for conveying water to a given place.
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Examples for "main "
Examples for "main "
1 Airlines, however, largely see their main funding requirements as a government responsibility.
2 Healthcare budget cuts across Europe, its main market, add to its woes.
3 It said London would remain MFS's main office in Europe after Brexit.
4 Renzi says the main task is to get Europe out of crisis.
5 Its main products include computers, communication products and digital products, among others.
1 Background: Occasionally patients present to the surgeon with known common duct stones.
2 And yes indeed, he really was a spendthrift with his duct tape.
3 In 15 patients, the common bile duct was found to be normal.
4 Methods: EUS-FNAs were obtained from 46 bile duct and seven gallbladder lesions.
5 Rapp stared at the model and searched for the duct in question.
1 At this point, he was her only possible conduit to the bonobos.
2 To create a conduit of words, to connect people through a letter.
3 His moving, deeply personal songs provided a conduit for the soldiers' grief.
4 The conduit , an Iranian-Israeli joint venture completed in circumventing the Suez canal.
5 The border with Sudan is an important conduit for goods into Eritrea.
1 Think of it as a leaky aqueduct leading to a water wheel.
2 That was the year his work on the big aqueduct had ended.
3 Ireland's newest aqueduct was the centre of attention for barge enthusiasts yesterday.
4 Near the aqueduct , a stone wall surrounds one of the principal outlets.
5 The last regular work he had was laying bricks on the aqueduct .
1 Patrick said the water main had been repaired and the water tested.
2 I recalled the case-bonesunearthed during the repair of a water main .
3 The attempt had to be abandoned when Page hit a water main .
4 Israeli jets hit three bridges, severing a water main to two refugee camps.
5 City officials blamed a 98-year-old old water main that gave out.
1 The main pipe extends far beyond the town limits.
2 The main pipe , which was full of mercury, was about seven and one-half feet from the floor.
3 I guess she's broke or clogged up somewheres on the main pipe that comes to all these houses.
4 The main pipe of the stand will need to be of proper length to suit the focus of your camera.
5 There is no electricity or water, and residents say the main pipe network is too badly damaged to be used again.
6 It draws the air from each of the rooms below, as well as from the hoods, through a main pipe , 48 in.
7 From the main pipe other pipes are run, generally lengthways of the building, ten feet from each side and twenty feet apart.
8 Soon I found that the main pipe in the street was being fixed, and the water had been cut off at the curb.
9 Homes in Limerick have been hit by major flooding this morning after a water mains pipe burst.
10 Irish Water is struggling to mend a mains pipe that burst last Friday impacting thousands of households and businesses.
11 These are one inch in diameter, and connect homes to the larger, main pipes running under the middles of streets.
12 About 4,500 homes in Wales have been left without water because of burst water main pipes .
13 Work was continuing last evening to repair the 21-inch mains pipe on the Headford Road which services the reservoir at Ballybane.
14 Most areas of North County Dublin will be without water until 9 p.m. tonight after a mains pipe burst near Swords this morning.
15 Firefighters helped divert surges of water away from people's homes in Co Clare on Monday night after a water mains pipe burst in the area.
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