essential vs mainline

essential

noun
  • A fundamental ingredient. 

  • A necessary ingredient. 

adj
  • Necessary. 

  • Necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested. 

  • Being in the basic form; showing its essence. 

  • Really existing; existent. 

  • Very important; of high importance. 

  • Having the nature of essence; not physical. 

  • Such that each complementary region is irreducible, the boundary of each complementary region is incompressible by disks and monogons in the complementary region, and no leaf is a sphere or a torus bounding a solid torus in the manifold. 

  • Idiopathic. 

mainline

noun
  • A principal vein into which a drug can be injected. 

  • In longline fishing the central line to which the branch lines with baits are attached. 

  • An airline's main operating unit, as opposed to codeshares or regional subsidiaries. 

  • The principal route or line of a railway. 

  • The main repository for a software project, from which different versions (forks) may be split off. 

  • The pipeline carrying wastewater to the public drains or a septic tank. 

verb
  • To integrate (code, etc.) into the main repository for a software project, rather than separate forks. 

  • To inject (a drug) directly into a vein. 

  • To consume voraciously. 

adj
  • Normal, principal or standard. 

  • Of or pertaining to the principal route or line of a railway. 

  • Of or pertaining to a surface railway as distinct from an underground, elevated or light rail one. 

  • Of a sequence of opening moves: being part of a main line ("a standard sequence of opening moves considered to be best play"). 

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