mainline

Meanings

1. Normal, principal or standard.
2. Not fundamentalist, charismatic or evangelical.
3. Of or pertaining to the principal route or line of a railway.
4. Of or pertaining to a surface-level heavy rail system as distinct from an underground, elevated or light rail one.
5. Of or pertaining to national or long-distance rail network operators as opposed to urban and suburban operators.
6. Pertaining to a direct route between two major ports.
7. Of a sequence of opening moves: being part of a main line ("a standard sequence of opening moves considered to be best play").

1. To inject (a drug) directly into a vein.
2. To consume voraciously.
3. To integrate (code, etc.) into the main repository for a software project, rather than separate forks.
4. To include (a prisoner) in the general population of a prison.

1. An airline's main operating unit, as opposed to codeshares or regional subsidiaries.
2. The principal route or line of a railway.
3. In longline fishing the central line to which the branch lines with baits are attached.
4. The pipeline carrying wastewater to the public drains or a septic tank.
5. A principal vein into which a drug can be injected.
6. The main repository for a software project, from which different versions (forks) may be split off.
7. Alternative form of main line.
8. The general population of a prison.

Etymology

From main + line.

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