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play, main(a), toy, main, bang

Common #1,866 of the corpus · 63.8 per million words · 272,258 occurrences

Noun

Any very large body of (salt) water

English: main, briny

Bahasa: air asin

Activity by children that is guided more by imagination than by fixed rules

English: play, child's play

Bahasa: permainan

A principal pipe in a system that distributes water or gas or electricity or that collects sewage

English: main

Bahasa: saluran, kabel

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Verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously)

English: fun, play, sport

Bahasa: bermain, keseronokan, gurauan, kejenakaan, seloroh

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Adjective

Most important element

English: chief(a), main(a), primary(a), principal(a), master(a)

Bahasa: utama, primer

(of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence

English: independent, main(a)

Bahasa: utama, primer, baku

Of force, of the greatest possible intensity

English: main(a)

Verb

Be at play, be engaged in playful activity, amuse oneself in a way characteristic of children

English: play

Bahasa: bermain, memainkan, bermain-main

5 more verb senses

Have sexual intercourse with

English: sleep together, roll in the hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with, get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, fuck, jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang, get it on, bonk

Bahasa: tahu, mengetahui, kenal, memasang, mengenali, bercinta, meniduri, bersetubuh

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