0 the most important part of something, providing support for everything else:
1 the most important part of something, providing support for everything else:
2 the most important part of something, providing support for everything else:
the mainstay of sth Antibiotic therapy is the mainstay of treatment for many infections.
The history plays a mainstay role in our model because it allows the co-operation between models and specialized modules.
The function of these small sums is clearly not to provide mainstay support, but rather to affirm membership in a family circle and its continuity.
The mainstays of such treatment are nitrates or calcium channel-blockers taken just before a meal.
Studies of the phonetic correlates of phonological representations have been a mainstay of laboratory phonology research.
By then, the children had completed compulsory schooling and had become the mainstay of the family economy.
Improvements to the acyclic nucleosides and nucleotides remain the mainstay of drug development.
Diabetes education is clearly a mainstay of diabetes selfmanagement.
While myths concerning the bones of vertebrates are the mainstay of the book, invertebrate fossils are not neglected.
