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Definition of mainstream in English: mainstreamnoun ˈmeɪnstriːmˈmeɪnˌstrim the mainstream1The ideas, attitudes, or activities that are shared by most people and regarded as normal or conventional. they withdrew from the mainstream of European politics Example sentencesExamples - Education policy often leads the way to integrate new ideas into the mainstream.
- There's a lot of symbiosis between the activists and the mainstream.
- He has a special interest in attempting to convey academic ideas to the mainstream, perhaps through print journalism.
- Crucially, these ideas were not developed in the mainstream of political discourse but on the margins and then popularised.
- The problem is, the ideas push into the mainstream of politics, and here we have a problem.
- But this year the list is five years old, and Porter's ideas have joined the mainstream.
- I don't think they want a major confrontation when they are desperate to enter the mainstream of politics.
- If you can't, it only indicates the extent to which your views are way out of the mainstream of American politics.
- Its attitudes to women also place it outside the mainstream.
- In fact, Linux is nowhere near the mainstream of computer desktop operating systems.
- Before computers entered the mainstream, talented programmers were rare.
- We know blogging has hit the mainstream for sure when companies are trying to make a profit on what started as a grass-roots effort.
- As they point out, the disease of neo-conservatism is more in the mainstream of American politics than many would like to admit.
- These attitudes place you outside the mainstream markets we wish to service.
- Prior to independence, tropical forest foragers remained outside the mainstream of society and politics.
- What this means is that only certain people can find a forum for their ideas in the mainstream and media.
- The overwhelming message carried by the mainstream is that corporate activities are largely benign and certainly not worth systematic investigation.
- We predict whether the mainstream will adapt those attitudes or not.
- Penrose veers into irony in the lengths to which he goes to point out where his ideas deviate from the mainstream.
- By leaving the GOP, Buchanan marginalized himself from the mainstream of American politics.
- 1.1mass noun Jazz that is neither traditional nor modern, based on the 1930s swing style and consisting especially of solo improvisation on chord sequences.
it was a form of jazz that had strayed away from the mainstream Example sentencesExamples - KSDS is a 24-hour mainstream jazz radio station, licensed to the San Diego Community College District.
- Almost all mainstream jazz is in 4/4-four strums to the bar.
- ‘The music is mostly traditional jazz, Dixieland and mainstream jazz,’ said Mr Frank, a double-bass player who took to the stage himself with his Dixieland All Stars.
- But in mainstream jazz, the 7th chord is king - major 7ths for I or tonic chords, dominant 7ths for V chords, minor 7ths for II and VI chords.
- Despite the fact that the soloists just use these two chords, the improvisations are melodically and rhythmically rich - a signpost of contemporary mainstream jazz.
- I play the piano, so it is natural for me to think ‘harmonically’ a lot of the time (one can hear harmonies instantly on a piano; also mainstream jazz is extremely harmony driven).
- Shivava will host traditional jazz music and the Bassline will showcase mainstream jazz.
- For, to judge by the number and amount of record sales of older jazz, there are plenty of lovers of mainstream jazz out there.
- The oldest jazz club in the world is Village Vanguard cellar jazz club, opened in New York City, USA, in 1935, and host to mainstream jazz concerts ever since.
- These harmonies, however, fit into the jazz idiom just as bop made its way into the mainstream, enriching both.
- The music I heard in my house was my parents' music, which was swing music, jazz, very mainstream jazz nothing esoteric - the usual people like Ella Fitzgerald, [and] Judy Garland.
- Sure, this album is miles away from free jazz, and I apologize for it, but I also have my sentimental side which appreciates top level mainstream jazz.
- The CD comprises 13 tunes from mainstream through Cape jazz and goema to hip-hop.
- Contemporary mainstream jazz artists use, for the most part, Hard Bop instrumentation and musical forms.
adjective ˈmeɪnstriːmˈmeɪnˌstrim 1Belonging to or characteristic of the mainstream. Example sentencesExamples - As the 70s dawned, mainstream black music made those sentiments explicit.
- You will almost never hear any American political figure described by the mainstream media as belonging the left wing.
- The recent European elections revealed a deep disaffection with mainstream politics.
- You're certainly not an indie or alternative artist, but you're not completely about to take over mainstream music either.
- Taylor doesn't expect blue laser technology to become mainstream until around 2008.
- And this is a play, daring though it may be, that belongs in a mainstream house.
- It's clear that working people no longer have a voice in mainstream politics in this country.
- But when mainstream, everyday Americans became opposed to the Vietnam War, it stopped.
- But Boyle could never get enthused about mainstream politics.
- Analysts and IT boffins are confident that the technology is going to be mainstream before very long.
- It has, therefore, created its own icons, which apparently have to be those good-looking mainstream artists.
- In today's age, many of those beliefs are in some ways formed or influenced via the mainstream media.
- Corn argues that much of the fault belongs to the mainstream media, which is loath to call any president a liar.
- You want your technology to become mainstream as fast as possible so that you can, in effect, share development costs.
- Both came from mainstream ranching traditions and initially recoiled at the new philosophy.
- But they want to lead people back to the passivity and compromise of mainstream politics.
- The things in this bill are absolutely mainstream in modern transport planning.
- In short, modern mainstream economics is in a state of total confusion.
- Traditional French staples, including baguettes, are mainstream in the cities.
- In online interviews, some point to a feeling of alienation from mainstream organized religion.
Synonyms normal, conventional, ordinary, orthodox, conformist, accepted, established, recognized, common, usual, prevailing, popular US informal, derogatory lamestream - 1.1 (of a school or class) for pupils without special needs.
the state government has supported greater integration of students with disabilities into mainstream schools Example sentencesExamples - Heads are now permitted to exclude difficult pupils from mainstream classes for a maximum of 15 days.
- Yet, as female students move into mainstream classes, their peer groups often change.
- What's missing in this class, compared to a class in a mainstream school, is any sense of interaction between the children.
- She's in seventh grade, at a mainstream school that has special education classes.
- He also blamed a lack of support for difficult pupils remaining in mainstream schools, an inappropriate curriculum and teacher shortages.
- The reorganisation includes an increased emphasis on children with less severe special needs pupils going into mainstream schools.
- She recommended our son be included within a mainstream school where a pupil had assaulted him.
- Several people feared putting special schools and mainstream schools on one site would lead to bullying of disabled children.
- The aim of the project was to learn from the experiences of pupils in both special educational and mainstream schools.
- Borough education chiefs want more integration between mainstream schools and special schools.
- ELL students do not clump in the Enrichment Academy classes nearly as much as they might in a mainstream class.
- Again, the guidance urges the quick re-integration of pupils into mainstream schools.
- All participants were enrolled in ESL classes and spent at least a portion of their school day in mainstream classes.
- This plan is for a mainstream school for 210 pupils and a nursery school.
- Their development in English language should be comparable to that of students in mainstream schools.
- But Ms Drown says it would be even more expensive to educate pupils at mainstream schools or at schools outside the borough.
- The decision not to educate a pupil in a mainstream school - against their parent's wishes - should not be taken lightly.
- Most mainstream schools in the UK follow a national curriculum, teaching A Levels and the relatively new AS Level.
- The current goal is English dominance sufficient for students to participate in mainstream classes within one year.
- The government has made it clear that it wishes to see more special needs children entering mainstream schools.
verb ˈmeɪnstriːmˈmeɪnˌstrim [with object]Bring into the mainstream. vegetarianism has been mainstreamed Example sentencesExamples - Now, we think mainstreaming the services that are provided will produce a much, much better result.
- But because my commitment is to mainstreaming astrology, I think it would be very confusing to the public if I started discussing other techniques.
- Lileks suggests that Democrats are mainstreaming the extreme.
- These are aimed at mainstreaming intercultural education into the entire curriculum and developing strategies to combat racist behaviour.
- The shift from WID to GAD then, at least for Peace Corps, meant mainstreaming women's issues.
- Murray Bowen is responsible for mainstreaming family therapy.
- The strategies outlined by Mary Robinson, the UNHCHR, are commonly described as mainstreaming human rights.
- But I don't see how mainstreaming indigenous programs, where mainstream has failed.
- It's a good lesson: if you want to mainstream yourself, you can't do things that make you look like a raving maniac.
- I'm sort of mainstreaming myself back into the normal beats of human life.
- The Fair Trade Fiesta helps mark the start of the new phase in mainstreaming Fair Trade in New Zealand.
- They are mainstreaming and forming coalitions in countries like Denmark and Italy.
- The beauty of mainstreaming anything is that anyone who belongs to the community that is being mainstreamed now has more freedom to be exactly who they are.
- What would have been considered ‘gay’ before is mainstreaming.
- The award's presenters noted that in a nation known for its heavy dependence on coal, Rizhao represents an inspiring example of the mainstreaming of renewable energy sources.
- He said support groups and agencies have already been mainstreaming in the absence of a national framework.
- On the whole, though, the 1950s and 1960s were times of further mainstreaming for the Cajuns.
- But he's mainstreaming the fringe while he's at it.
- Ever since Napster mainstreamed unauthorized sharing of copyrighted materials, record labels have been singing the blues - and for pretty obvious reasons.
- Similarly, there is a need for mainstreaming considerations of gender, age and occupation in the national nutrition strategy.
Definition of mainstream in US English: mainstreamnounˈmeɪnˌstrimˈmānˌstrēm the mainstream1The ideas, attitudes, or activities that are regarded as normal or conventional; the dominant trend in opinion, fashion, or the arts. companies that are bringing computers to the mainstream of American life Example sentencesExamples - These attitudes place you outside the mainstream markets we wish to service.
- I don't think they want a major confrontation when they are desperate to enter the mainstream of politics.
- He has a special interest in attempting to convey academic ideas to the mainstream, perhaps through print journalism.
- Its attitudes to women also place it outside the mainstream.
- In fact, Linux is nowhere near the mainstream of computer desktop operating systems.
- What this means is that only certain people can find a forum for their ideas in the mainstream and media.
- The overwhelming message carried by the mainstream is that corporate activities are largely benign and certainly not worth systematic investigation.
- Before computers entered the mainstream, talented programmers were rare.
- Crucially, these ideas were not developed in the mainstream of political discourse but on the margins and then popularised.
- By leaving the GOP, Buchanan marginalized himself from the mainstream of American politics.
- Penrose veers into irony in the lengths to which he goes to point out where his ideas deviate from the mainstream.
- There's a lot of symbiosis between the activists and the mainstream.
- We know blogging has hit the mainstream for sure when companies are trying to make a profit on what started as a grass-roots effort.
- Education policy often leads the way to integrate new ideas into the mainstream.
- If you can't, it only indicates the extent to which your views are way out of the mainstream of American politics.
- We predict whether the mainstream will adapt those attitudes or not.
- Prior to independence, tropical forest foragers remained outside the mainstream of society and politics.
- The problem is, the ideas push into the mainstream of politics, and here we have a problem.
- As they point out, the disease of neo-conservatism is more in the mainstream of American politics than many would like to admit.
- But this year the list is five years old, and Porter's ideas have joined the mainstream.
- 1.1 Jazz that is neither traditional nor modern, based on the 1930s swing style and consisting especially of solo improvisation on chord sequences.
Example sentencesExamples - I play the piano, so it is natural for me to think ‘harmonically’ a lot of the time (one can hear harmonies instantly on a piano; also mainstream jazz is extremely harmony driven).
- Despite the fact that the soloists just use these two chords, the improvisations are melodically and rhythmically rich - a signpost of contemporary mainstream jazz.
- The music I heard in my house was my parents' music, which was swing music, jazz, very mainstream jazz nothing esoteric - the usual people like Ella Fitzgerald, [and] Judy Garland.
- But in mainstream jazz, the 7th chord is king - major 7ths for I or tonic chords, dominant 7ths for V chords, minor 7ths for II and VI chords.
- ‘The music is mostly traditional jazz, Dixieland and mainstream jazz,’ said Mr Frank, a double-bass player who took to the stage himself with his Dixieland All Stars.
- The oldest jazz club in the world is Village Vanguard cellar jazz club, opened in New York City, USA, in 1935, and host to mainstream jazz concerts ever since.
- These harmonies, however, fit into the jazz idiom just as bop made its way into the mainstream, enriching both.
- Contemporary mainstream jazz artists use, for the most part, Hard Bop instrumentation and musical forms.
- Almost all mainstream jazz is in 4/4-four strums to the bar.
- For, to judge by the number and amount of record sales of older jazz, there are plenty of lovers of mainstream jazz out there.
- Sure, this album is miles away from free jazz, and I apologize for it, but I also have my sentimental side which appreciates top level mainstream jazz.
- KSDS is a 24-hour mainstream jazz radio station, licensed to the San Diego Community College District.
- The CD comprises 13 tunes from mainstream through Cape jazz and goema to hip-hop.
- Shivava will host traditional jazz music and the Bassline will showcase mainstream jazz.
adjectiveˈmeɪnˌstrimˈmānˌstrēm 1Belonging to or characteristic of the mainstream. a mixture of mainstream and avant-garde artists Example sentencesExamples - But Boyle could never get enthused about mainstream politics.
- The recent European elections revealed a deep disaffection with mainstream politics.
- Corn argues that much of the fault belongs to the mainstream media, which is loath to call any president a liar.
- It has, therefore, created its own icons, which apparently have to be those good-looking mainstream artists.
- Both came from mainstream ranching traditions and initially recoiled at the new philosophy.
- But they want to lead people back to the passivity and compromise of mainstream politics.
- Traditional French staples, including baguettes, are mainstream in the cities.
- It's clear that working people no longer have a voice in mainstream politics in this country.
- You're certainly not an indie or alternative artist, but you're not completely about to take over mainstream music either.
- In today's age, many of those beliefs are in some ways formed or influenced via the mainstream media.
- Analysts and IT boffins are confident that the technology is going to be mainstream before very long.
- But when mainstream, everyday Americans became opposed to the Vietnam War, it stopped.
- Taylor doesn't expect blue laser technology to become mainstream until around 2008.
- You will almost never hear any American political figure described by the mainstream media as belonging the left wing.
- You want your technology to become mainstream as fast as possible so that you can, in effect, share development costs.
- The things in this bill are absolutely mainstream in modern transport planning.
- In online interviews, some point to a feeling of alienation from mainstream organized religion.
- As the 70s dawned, mainstream black music made those sentiments explicit.
- And this is a play, daring though it may be, that belongs in a mainstream house.
- In short, modern mainstream economics is in a state of total confusion.
Synonyms normal, conventional, ordinary, orthodox, conformist, accepted, established, recognized, common, usual, prevailing, popular - 1.1 (of a school or class) for students without special needs.
the state government has supported greater integration of students with disabilities into mainstream schools Example sentencesExamples - All participants were enrolled in ESL classes and spent at least a portion of their school day in mainstream classes.
- She recommended our son be included within a mainstream school where a pupil had assaulted him.
- Most mainstream schools in the UK follow a national curriculum, teaching A Levels and the relatively new AS Level.
- The aim of the project was to learn from the experiences of pupils in both special educational and mainstream schools.
- The reorganisation includes an increased emphasis on children with less severe special needs pupils going into mainstream schools.
- Again, the guidance urges the quick re-integration of pupils into mainstream schools.
- But Ms Drown says it would be even more expensive to educate pupils at mainstream schools or at schools outside the borough.
- ELL students do not clump in the Enrichment Academy classes nearly as much as they might in a mainstream class.
- What's missing in this class, compared to a class in a mainstream school, is any sense of interaction between the children.
- She's in seventh grade, at a mainstream school that has special education classes.
- The current goal is English dominance sufficient for students to participate in mainstream classes within one year.
- Heads are now permitted to exclude difficult pupils from mainstream classes for a maximum of 15 days.
- He also blamed a lack of support for difficult pupils remaining in mainstream schools, an inappropriate curriculum and teacher shortages.
- Borough education chiefs want more integration between mainstream schools and special schools.
- Yet, as female students move into mainstream classes, their peer groups often change.
- Their development in English language should be comparable to that of students in mainstream schools.
- The government has made it clear that it wishes to see more special needs children entering mainstream schools.
- Several people feared putting special schools and mainstream schools on one site would lead to bullying of disabled children.
- This plan is for a mainstream school for 210 pupils and a nursery school.
- The decision not to educate a pupil in a mainstream school - against their parent's wishes - should not be taken lightly.
verbˈmeɪnˌstrimˈmānˌstrēm [with object]1Bring (something) into the mainstream. vegetarianism has been mainstreamed Example sentencesExamples - Now, we think mainstreaming the services that are provided will produce a much, much better result.
- Ever since Napster mainstreamed unauthorized sharing of copyrighted materials, record labels have been singing the blues - and for pretty obvious reasons.
- But because my commitment is to mainstreaming astrology, I think it would be very confusing to the public if I started discussing other techniques.
- The strategies outlined by Mary Robinson, the UNHCHR, are commonly described as mainstreaming human rights.
- Murray Bowen is responsible for mainstreaming family therapy.
- But he's mainstreaming the fringe while he's at it.
- Lileks suggests that Democrats are mainstreaming the extreme.
- What would have been considered ‘gay’ before is mainstreaming.
- These are aimed at mainstreaming intercultural education into the entire curriculum and developing strategies to combat racist behaviour.
- The award's presenters noted that in a nation known for its heavy dependence on coal, Rizhao represents an inspiring example of the mainstreaming of renewable energy sources.
- He said support groups and agencies have already been mainstreaming in the absence of a national framework.
- But I don't see how mainstreaming indigenous programs, where mainstream has failed.
- They are mainstreaming and forming coalitions in countries like Denmark and Italy.
- It's a good lesson: if you want to mainstream yourself, you can't do things that make you look like a raving maniac.
- The beauty of mainstreaming anything is that anyone who belongs to the community that is being mainstreamed now has more freedom to be exactly who they are.
- I'm sort of mainstreaming myself back into the normal beats of human life.
- Similarly, there is a need for mainstreaming considerations of gender, age and occupation in the national nutrition strategy.
- The Fair Trade Fiesta helps mark the start of the new phase in mainstreaming Fair Trade in New Zealand.
- On the whole, though, the 1950s and 1960s were times of further mainstreaming for the Cajuns.
- The shift from WID to GAD then, at least for Peace Corps, meant mainstreaming women's issues.
- 1.1 Place (a student with special needs) into a mainstream class or school.
the goal is to have the child mainstreamed into a regular classroom Example sentencesExamples - Parents described whether the child was currently fully included, partially mainstreamed, or in a special day class without mainstreaming.
- Those students who showed rapid signs of progress were mainstreamed in one or more classes.
- She was in special ed from pre-school until she was mainstreamed in fourth grade.
- Students are mainstreamed into all English classrooms, in many cases at the end of first grade, until their English proficiency is sufficient enough to follow instruction.
- For traditional-age college students, being encouraged to take an ESL class was more difficult to accept if they had been mainstreamed in high school.
- When special-needs children are mainstreamed into a classroom, we examine their fish-out-of-water struggles.
- Around six lakh children would be deprived of a chance to be mainstreamed into regular schools this year.
- I had a student who was mainstreamed and the teacher called me almost every day.
- It helps these special children to be mainstreamed and to interact on an equal platform.
- Reverted to teenagers and mainstreamed with normal kids in a normal high school adds a whole new dimension to these characters.
- Where necessary for educational reasons, mainstreaming students assumes a subordinate role in formulating an educational program.
- It was chosen because its students are not mainstreamed abruptly into all-English instruction but receive instructional support in the native language through Grade 5.
- These kids become Cindy's friends and help her learn important lessons about inclusion, labeling, mainstreaming, and retardation.
- Students with special needs are mainstreamed into the regular classroom whenever possible, but additional education services also are provided.
- The goal is to have the child mainstreamed into a regular classroom, although an aide may be necessary to keep the child focused.
- At times, female students who leave ESL classes and are completely mainstreamed lose their in-group status with female students who remain in ESL classes.
- This method of transferring information is beneficial for the special education students who are mainstreamed into my art classes.
- This was an early forerunner of the programmes developed some twenty years later for mainstreaming disabled children.
- When they reach Step 2, students are mainstreamed in reading.
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