main purpose
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmainandpurpose
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main
adjective[before noun]
uk/meɪn/us/meɪn/
larger, more important, or having more influence than others of the ...
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purpose
noun
uk/ˈpɜː.pəs/us/ˈpɝː.pəs/
why you do something or why ...
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(Definition ofmainandpurposefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofmain purpose
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Ourmainpurposewas to identify neurons that had pre-motor activity.
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Themainpurposeof the trial is to determine whether screening in men in the 55 to 79-year-old age group reduced prostate cancer mortality.
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Themainpurposeof this work is to study the velocity scaling through a basic approach of dimensional analysis.
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Themainpurposeof the paper is to discuss the uniqueness of the bounded flow solution and the role of the eigenfunction.
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Themainpurposeis to provide emotional support and empathy for callers through the listening process.
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Themainpurposeof the immediate posttest was to examine whether sufficient learning had taken place.
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Themainpurposewas to survey the number and case-mix of patients in longterm care in institutions.
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There are in fact several different definitions, and themainpurposeof their paper was to show that they are all equivalent.
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Ourmainpurposeis to find 'product-type' covariant representations for it.
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A first step (and themainpurposeof this paper) is to replace the assumption d 16 by the more natural one d 2.
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Themainpurposeof this paper is to prove the following.
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Ourmainpurposein this paper is to show that certain kinds of invariants are as far from complete as possible.
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Itsmainpurposeis to highlight how the scheme proposed accounts for the elusive and changing nature of concepts during design.
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Open-ended survey data confirm that civil rights were themainpurposeof such activism.
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Themainpurposehere is to relate a set of criteria which are useful in the design procedure.
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Itsmainpurposeis the integration of the domain knowledge in a single system for the systematic design of this type of grippers.
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Like the 1981 article, themainpurposehere is to stimulate scientific debate and inquiry.
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Themainpurposeof this paper is to show that problem (1.10) possesses an energy minimizer.
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Ourmainpurposeis to explore transitions from order to disorder in the nonlinear regime and to understand the physical processes that are involved.
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