Look up: Plain

1. plain
   [adj] - not mixed with extraneous elements 2. [adj] - not elaborate or elaborated 3. [adj] - lacking patterns especially in color 4. [adj] - comprehensible to the general public 5. [adj] - free from any effort to soften to disguise 6. [adj] - lacking embellishment or ornam...
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2. Plain
   blank, uncoloured space in HERALDRY.
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3. Plain
   Plain intransitive verb [ Middle English playne , pleyne , from French plaindre . See Plaint .] To lament; to bewail; to complain. [ Archaic & Poetic] Milton. « We with piteous heart unto you pleyne .» Chaucer.
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4. Plain
   Plain transitive verb To lament; to mourn over; as, to plain a loss. [ Archaic & Poetic] Sir J. Harrington.
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5. Plain
   Plain adjective [ Compar. Plainer ; superl. Plainest .] [ French, level, flat, from Latin planus , perhaps akin to English floor . Confer Llano , Piano , Pl...
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6. Plain
   Plain adverb In a plain manner; plainly. 'To speak short and pleyn .' Chaucer. 'To tell you plain .' Shak.
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7. Plain
   Plain noun [ Confer Old French plaigne , French plaine . See Plain , adjective ] 1. Level land; usually, an open field or a broad stretch of land with an even surface, or a surface little varied by in...
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8. Plain
   Plain transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Plained ; present participle & verbal noun Plaining .] [ Confer Plane , v. ] 1. To plane or leve...
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9. plain
   To lament; to bewail; to complain. 'We with piteous heart unto you pleyne.' (Chaucer) ... Origin: OE. Playne, pleyne, fr. F. Plaindre. See Plaint. ... 1. Without elevations or depressions; flat; level; smooth; even. See Plane. 'The crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain.' (Isa. X...
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10. plain
    bare adjective lacking embellishment or ornamentation; `a plain hair style`; `unembellished white walls`; `functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete`
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11. plain
    sheer adjective not mixed with extraneous elements; `plain water`; `sheer wine`; `not an unmixed blessing`
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12. plain
    unvarnished adjective free from any effort to soften to disguise; `the plain and unvarnished truth`; `the unvarnished candor of old people and children`
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13. plain
    field noun extensive tract of level open land; `they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain`; `he longed for the fields of his youth`
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14. Plain
    • (superl.) Not much varied by modulations; as, a plain tune. • (a.) A field of battle. • (v. t.) To lament; to mourn over; as, to plain a loss. • (adv.) In a plain manner; plainly. • (superl.) Not variegated, dyed, or figured; as, plain muslin. • (superl.) Not intricat...
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15. plain
    any relatively level area of the Earth`s surface exhibiting gentle slopes and small local relief. Plains vary widely in size. The smallest occupy ... [1 related articles]
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16. Plain
    Plain is Dorset slang for homely, unaffected.
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17. Plain
    Plain is Dorset slang for homely, unaffected.
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18. PLAIN
    Programming LAnguage for INteraction. Pascal-like, with extensions for database, string handling, exceptions and pattern matching. 'Revised Report on the Programming Language PLAIN', A. Wasserman, SIGPLAN Notices 6(5):59-80 (May 1981).
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19. plain
    
    • extensive tract of level open land
    • a basic knitting stitch
    
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20. Plain
    A term describing a dull, sour infusion.
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21. plain
    plain, large area of level or nearly level land. Elevated plains are called plateaus, or tablelands, and very low, wet plains are called swamps. Plains have different names in different climates and countries. They include the tundras, steppes, prairies, pampas, savannas, llanos, floodplains of rive...
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22. plain
    Land, usually flat, upon which grass predominates. The plains cover large areas of the Earth's surface, especially between the deserts of the tropics and the rainforests of the Equator, and have rain in one season only. In such regions the climate belts move north and south during the year, bringing rainforest conditions at one time and desert ...
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23. Plain
    In geography, a `plain` is land with relatively low relief, that is flat or gently rolling. Prairies and steppes are types of plains, and the archetype for a plain is often thought of as a grassland, but plains in their natural state may also be covered in shrublands, woodland and forest, or vegetat...
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