main ingredient
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmainandingredient
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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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ingredient
noun[C]
uk/ɪnˈɡriː.di.ənt/us/ɪnˈɡriː.di.ənt/
a food that is used with other foods in the preparation of a ...
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(Definition ofmainandingredientfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Themainingredientis the following.
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Another of these professors (1982) feels that themainingredientthat he has added to the teaching that he received is enthusiasm.
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Anothermainingredientis the matching technology.
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Themainingredientis the notion of stream derivative, which can be used to formulate both coinductive proofs and definitions.
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Since then binding time analysis has become amainingredientin all self-applicable partial evaluation systems, and it has become a research area on its own.
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For them, data variability which originates in individual differences (in response to a given situation) is amainingredientof the "bread and butter" of their research.
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Themainingredientthat is most likely to be responsible for the 'quantumness' is the concept of entanglement, which is a property associated with certain quantum states.
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It is not necessarily themainingredientof a drug to which they will be allergic or which they will find themselves unable to tolerate.
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The price of superphosphate, which is themainingredientof fertilisers and compound fertilisers, has had the most striking rise.
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The main purpose of the social services is to achieve social justice, and justice clearly should be theirmainingredient.
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As, of course, he knows, there is a world abundance of grain, themainingredientfor baking bread.
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But if that interpretation is themainingredientof public information, there is an even greater danger if the range of papers is restricted.
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Will he tell us what is themainingredientin higher rents?
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This drug is derived from glutamic acid, which is themainingredientof thalidomide.
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My earliest recollection of linseed is that it was themainingredientof a poultice which was supposed to cure all ills.
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That really is themainingredientof mutual recognition.
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Obviously, itsmainingredientis chicken.
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Themainingredientwas lofty moral sentiment, which nobody would question; the residue consisted of unsound logic and unreliable statements.
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