main topic
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmainandtopic
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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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topic
noun[C]
uk/ˈtɒp.ɪk/us/ˈtɑː.pɪk/
a subject that is discussed, written about, ...
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(Definition ofmainandtopicfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofmain topic
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This last step is themaintopicof the book.
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Some trivial information concerning themaintopicwas included in both text types and lengths.
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To show the practical usefulness of this feature is themaintopicof the paper.
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Because we assign only onemaintopicper sentence, precision equals recall.
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The emergence of discrete shapes and localised structures relates this issue to ourmaintopic.
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So the first andmaintopicwas soccer.
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The probabilistic approaches learn that persistency of amaintopicterm in combination with a prominent position in the sentence is an important cue for the topicality.
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Although themaintopicof talk in "today in history" is historical and factual, these exchanges contain some historically fictionalized and gratuitous elements.
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Our precision results relate to the correct identification of the noun chunk that acts asmaintopic.
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This involved thorough and repeated readings of the transcripts to identify broad distinctions or themes between quotations relating to themaintopicareas.
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I could only pay limited attention to this issue, because it is not themaintopicof my paper.
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The estimate of the full distribution is used to find the most probablemaintopicof a sentence in a test example.
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Table 3 shows the strict precision for themaintopicassignment in which also the extraction of representative terms is computed.
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A fundamental question, and themaintopicof interest in this paper, is whether there are algorithms for the three computational problems discussed here with better worst-case performance bounds.
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Application of this framework to actual architectures and (parallel) programming languages is themaintopicdeserving further study.
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Themaintopicof discussion was the government's failure to pay the arrears of the salary-increase awards before the end of the second term, as previously agreed.
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In this sense, while ' troubles ' are amaintopicfor conversations or gossip, it encompasses much more.
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We will briefly summarize the measurement procedures and basic first-order analysis before we focus on the description of the second-order analysis, themaintopicof the present paper.
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Themaintopicof this conversation is crime, and the speakers are talking about adolescent crimes including drugs use.
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We do not deny that this is an aspect which is present in our work, but it certainly is not amaintopic.
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