Определение plain в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь
- To lament, bewail
Not to be born again.
- Containing no non-printing characters; ASCII code values 32 through 126
- Having only few ingredients, or no additional ingredients or seasonings; not elaborate, without toppings or extras
Would you like a poppy bagel or a plain bagel?.
- A plane
- Simple in habits or qualities; unsophisticated, not exceptional, ordinary
They're just plain people like you or me.
- Downright; total, unmistakable (as intensifier)
His answer was just plain nonsense.
- Flat, level
- Evident to one's senses or reason; manifest, obvious, clear, unmistakable
In fact, by excommunication or persuasion, by impetuosity of driving or adroitness in leading, this Abbot, it is now becoming plain everywhere, is a man that generally remains master at last.
- Honest and without deception; candid, open; blunt
Let me be plain with you: I don't like her.
- Simply
I plain forgot.
- Not unusually beautiful; unattractive
Throughout high school she worried that she had a rather plain face.
- Ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation; unembellished
He was dressed simply in plain black clothes.
- An expanse of land with relatively low relief
For Plato the life of the philosopher is a life of struggle towards the goal of knowledge, towards “searching the heavens and measuring the plains, in all places seeking the nature of everything as a whole”.
- not mixed with extraneous elements; "plain water"; "sheer wine"; "not an unmixed blessing
- {a} smooth, flat, clear, evident, homely
- {n} a level ground, field of battle, square
- {a} sincerely, clearly, bluntly
- {v} to make smooth, level, lament
- Void of extraneous beauty or ornament; without conspicious embellishment; not rich; simple
- not mixed with extraneous elements; "plain water"; "sheer wine"; "not an unmixed blessing"
- Something that is plain is very simple in style. Bronwen's dress was plain but it hung well on her fancy, elaborate + plainly plain·ly He was very tall and plainly dressed
- A field of battle
- tea taster's term to denote dull liquor with sour taste
- extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth"
- comprehensible to the general public; "written for the popular press in plain nontechnical language"
- emphasis You can use plain before an adjective in order to emphasize it. The food was just plain terrible. Plain is also used before a noun. Is it love of publicity or plain stupidity on her part?
- Plains are flat lands that have only small changes in elevation
- A broad and flat area that usually has low elevation
- Not highly cultivated; unsophisticated; free from show or pretension; simple; natural; homely; common
- extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth" lacking embellishment or ornamentation; "a plain hair style"; "unembellished white walls"; "functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete" free from any effort to soften to disguise; "the plain and unvarnished truth"; "the unvarnished candor of old people and children" comprehensible to the general public; "written for the popular press in plain nontechnical language" lacking patterns especially in color not elaborate or elaborated; simple; "plain food"; "stuck to the plain facts"; "a plain blue suit"; "a plain rectangular brick building" not mixed with extraneous elements; "plain water"; "sheer wine"; "not an unmixed blessing
- In a plain manner; plainly
- lacking in physical beauty or proportion; "a homely child"; "several of the buildings were downright homely"; "a plain girl with a freckled face"
- {i} plateau, area of level ground; prairie, savanna
- To make plain or manifest; to explain
- To lament; to mourn over; as, to plain a loss
- ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
- free from any effort to soften to disguise; "the plain and unvarnished truth"; "the unvarnished candor of old people and children"
- unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly'); "the answer is obviously wrong"; "she was in bed and evidently in great pain"; "he was manifestly too important to leave off the guest list"; "it is all patently nonsense"; "she has apparently been living here for some time"; "I thought he owned the property, but apparently not"; "You are plainly wrong"; "he is plain stubborn"
- Level land; usually, an open field or a broad stretch of land with an even surface, or a surface little varied by inequalities; as, the plain of Jordan; the American plains, or prairies
- Without beauty; not handsome; homely; as, a plain woman
- express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness; "My mother complains all day"; "She has a lot to kick about"
- n a flat and expansive region of land with little if any varied topography
- A plain object, surface, or fabric is entirely in one colour and has no pattern, design, or writing on it. In general, a plain carpet makes a room look bigger He wore a plain blue shirt, open at the collar
- If a fact, situation, or statement is plain, it is easy to recognize or understand. It was plain to him that I was having a nervous breakdown He's made it plain that he loves the game and wants to be involved still. see also plain-spoken = clear
- not elaborate or elaborated; simple; "plain food"; "stuck to the plain facts"; "a plain blue suit"; "a plain rectangular brick building"
- (1) clear and distinct, as in: The facts are plain
- Region of uniform general slope, comparatively level, of considerable extent, and not broken by marked elevations and depressions (it may be an extensive valley floor or a plateau summit); an extent of level or nearly level land; a flat, gently sloping, or nearly level region of the sea floor
- lacking patterns especially in color
- a large area of flat or gently sloping land
- Not much varied by modulations; as, a plain tune
- If you describe someone as plain, you think they look ordinary and not at all beautiful. a shy, rather plain girl with a pale complexion
- a basic knitting stitch
- Simple Having no features other than those considered basic for the item described Uncoated, undecorated, etc
- Not intricate or difficult; evident; manifest; obvious; clear; unmistakable
- A drink without any additions, straight from the bottle
- To plane or level; to make plain or even on the surface
- simply, in an unembellished manner; clearly, simply
- To lament; to bewail; to complain
- If a police officer is in plain clothes, he or she is wearing ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform. Three officers in plain clothes told me to get out of the car. plain sailing: see sailing. Any relatively level area of the Earth's surface that exhibits gentle slopes and small local relief (differences in elevation). Occupying slightly more than one-third of the terrestrial surface, plains are found on all continents except Antarctica. Some are tree-covered, and others are grassy. Still others support scrub brush and bunch grass, and a few are nearly waterless deserts. With certain exceptions, plains have become the sites of major centres of population, industry, commerce, and transportation. abyssal plain Esdraelon Plain of Gangetic Plain Indo Gangetic Plain Staked Plain Nullarbor Plain Plain the Reeds Plain of Sharon Plain of Abraham Plains of Great Plains Plains Indian
- {s} clear, evident; simple, unembellished; ugly, unattractive; flat, smooth
- A flat, undulating, or even rolling area, larger or smaller, that includes few prominent hills or valleys, that usually is at low elevation in reference to surrounding areas, and that may have considerable overall slope and local relief
- Not luxurious; not highly seasoned; simple; as, plain food
- Not variegated, dyed, or figured; as, plain muslin
- Free from affectation or disguise; candid; sincere; artless; honest; frank
- A large area of land, either level or gently rolling, usually at low elevation
- A generally flat or gently sloping area of land
- A plain is a large flat area of land with very few trees on it. Once there were 70 million buffalo on the plains
- lacking patterns especially in color not elaborate or elaborated; simple; "plain food"; "stuck to the plain facts"; "a plain blue suit"; "a plain rectangular brick building"
- Open; clear; unencumbered; equal; fair
- lacking stylistic embellishment; "a literal description"; "wrote good but plain prose"; "a plain unadorned account of the coronation"; "a forthright unembellished style"
- Plain of Jars
- A plateau in Laos, known for the thousands of large megalithic jars scattered in the landscape
- plain Jane
- A young woman of unremarkable appearance
- plain Janes
- plural form of plain Jane
- plain and simple
- Clearly, without any doubt or complexity
I don't care what he calls it, what he's doing is theft, plain and simple.
- plain as a pikestaff
- Extremely clear and plain to see
You saw his ghost then, says Joe, God between us and harm.
- plain as the nose on one's face
- Extremely clear and plain to see
- plain clothes
- Civilian clothes worn by someone in an occupation or organization for which a uniform might be expected, as the police or clergy
- plain flour
- Exact synonym of flour
- plain line
- a stretch of railway track that does not have any junctions, crossovers or points on it
- plain line
- to remove points and crossovers from a stretch of track
- plain lined
- Simple past tense and past participle of plain line
- plain lines
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of plain line
- plain lines
- plural form of plain line
- plain lining
- Present participle of plain line
- plain paper
- Paper that has no markings on it, usable paper
Toss me a ream of that plain paper, please. The printer is empty again.
- plain sailing
- simple, straightforward, or easy
In another fifty yards there was a second turn, this time toward the left! but it was more of a gentle curve, and we took it without trouble. After that it was plain sailing, though as far as I could know, there might be most anything ahead of us, and my nerves strained to the snapping-point every instant.
- plain sailing
- The navigation of waters free from hazards or unfavourable winds
- plain sailing
- Obsolete spelling of plane sailing
- plain text
- Unencrypted text, text that is readable
Using the sophisticated code was useless since the spy merely stole the plain text from the waste basket.
- plain text
- Data which consists only of human-readable text, as opposed to machine-readable binary data or formatting markup
- plain text
- Consisting only of plain text
- plain-clothes
- Alternative spelling of plain clothes
- plain-paper
- Attributive form of plain paper
He has a special photo printer, but I just have a plain-paper printer.
- plain-song
- A cantus firmus or theme chosen for contrapuntal treatment; so called because often an actual fragment of plain-song
- plain-song
- The simple notes of an air, without ornament or variation; hence, a plain, unexaggerated statement
- plain-song
- The unisonous vocal music which has been used in the Christian church from its earliest centuries
- plain-winged antshrike
- a passerine bird of the antbird family
- plain-winged antshrikes
- plural form of plain-winged antshrike
- Plain People
- Members of the Mennonites, Amish, or Dunkers, noted for their plain dress and simple style of life
- plain as day
- (deyim) Easy to see, clearly visible, in broad daylight
- plain view
- A location or field of perception in which something is plainly apparent
- plain view
- A doctrine that permits the search, seizure, and use of evidence obtained without a search warrant when such evidence was plainly perceptible in the course of lawful procedure and the police had probable cause to believe it was incriminating
- plain weave
- A weave in which the filling threads and the warp threads interlace alternately, forming a checkerboard pattern. Also called taffeta weave
- Plain Old Telephone Service
- POTS, regular telephone service, slow and simple telephone service (as opposed to wireless or cellular telephone service)
- Plain of Esdraelon
- Hebrew Emeq Yizreel Plain, northern Israel. About 25 mi (40 km) long, it divides the hilly areas of Galilee in the north and Samaria in the south. Part of the ancient passage between Egypt and the Fertile Crescent, it was an avenue of commerce and a scene of conflict from earliest antiquity. To the northwest is the site of ancient Megiddo. Owing to poor natural drainage, it was swampy and sparsely inhabited for many centuries, but since 1920 the land has been reclaimed, and dozens of settlements, combining intensive agriculture with light industry, have been set up. Afula is the principal urban centre
- Plain of Reeds
- Vietnamese Dong Thap Muoi Low, swampy region, a northwestern extension of the Mekong River delta, southern Vietnam and eastern Cambodia. It has been partially reclaimed by a levee and drainage system
- Plain of Sharon
- Mediterranean coastal plain, western Israel. Extending about 55 mi (90 km) from Mount Carmel to Tel Aviv-Yafo and roughly triangular in shape, it has been inhabited since remote antiquity. Its name occurs in the Bible and is mentioned in Egyptian pharaonic inscriptions. Modern settlement was undertaken as part of the Zionist movement to settle the agricultural lands of Palestine in the late 19th century, and by the early 1930s it had become the most densely settled area of Jewish Palestine. It produces citrus fruits, vegetables, and cotton and is a popular tourist destination
- plain as a pikestaff
- clear, evident, obvious
- plain chocolate
- Plain chocolate is dark brown chocolate that has a stronger and less sweet taste than milk chocolate. chocolate made without milk and with very little sugar = dark chocolate
- plain clothes
- civilian clothing worn by a member of the armed forces (usually while on duty)
- plain dealing
- honest trading, fair trading
- plain flour
- flour that does not contain a raising agent
- plain flour
- Plain flour is flour that does not make cakes and biscuits rise when they are cooked because it has no chemicals added to it. flour that contains no baking powder self-raising flour
- plain man
- average person, regular "Joe
- plain sailing
- easy unobstructed progress; "after we solved that problem the rest was plain sailing
- plain sailing
- quiet or uneventful journey; clear course of action
- plain talk
- open and straightforward discussion
- plain text
- Human-readable, unencrypted messages or data
- plain text
- This refers to textual data in ASCII format It is supported by nearly every application It is quite limited because it cannot contain any formatting commands
- plain text
- Unencrypted information [NIS] (188) Note: Plain text includes voice Synonym clear text
- plain text
- This is text without extraneous codes that designate font size, font style, etc See ASCII
- plain text
- A format in which data appears It is significant because you can use FrontPage to open data in this format and place it on a Web page
- plain text
- Computer-encoded text that consists only of a sequence of code values from a given standard, with no other formatting or structural information Plain text interchange is commonly used between computer systems that do not share higher-level protocols (See also fancy text )
- plain text
- Text without formatting other than spaces, newline, etc , using ASCII characters
- plain text
- Provides storage for text and services to manipulate it but does not support format attributes and cannot be displayed
- plain text
- A sequence of character code elements which represents only the core or primary content of some textual information Text which is unformatted with the exception of spaces and line breaks Monospaced typewriter text Text composed of ASCII characaters Cf Rich Text
- plain text
- Text format that doesn't include formatting codes designating layout and appearance of text
- plain text
- The term plain text is often used to describe data that consists exclusively of text, or rather the character codes used to represent it The term is also sometimes used to describe text which is free of any markup However, it should be noted that any markup would itself consist of nothing more than series of character codes
- plain text
- A text document with no other formatting such as from a word processor or HTML editor A plain text document is also called an ASCII file
- plain text
- Unencoded text that is not secure from being viewed
- plain text
- means data made up of letters and numbers stored in ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Exchange) format It does not contain any formatting (for example text style or layout) and is therefore readable by most text editing programs and word processors Plain text files often have a txt file extension
- plain text
- Data which exists in an unenciphered form
- plain text
- A file which contains only ASCII data (representing printable characters) See: ASCII (Webopaedia)
- plain text
- Computer-encoded text that consists only of a sequence of code points from a given standard, with no other formatting or structural information Plain text interchange is commonly used between computer systems that do not share higher-level protocols (See also fancy text )
- plain text
- usually refers to vanilla ASCII text, as created or viewed in a simple text-editing program
- plain text
- textual data that contains no document-structure or format markup, or any tagging devices that are controlled by a higher-level protocol The meaning of plain text data is determined solely by the character encoding convention used for the data
- plain text
- 1 The normal text or language, or any symbol or signal, that conveys information without any hidden or secret meaning 2 Any text considered as the subject of encryption or the result of decryption
- plain text
- When entering content into a text box in Blackboard, you can choose one of three text types - Smart Text, Plain Text, or HTML The Plain Text and Smart Text options allow you to create hypertext links without the need to use HTML code To create a link using Plain Text, simply type or paste the address of a web page (the URL) into the text box You will not be able to apply any formatting effects when using Plain Text If you want to make text bold or italic, insert images, or make hypertext links open in a new window, you should select the Smart Text or HTML options
- plain text
- A message or document format that just includes numbers, letters, and spaces No font, font size, color, or tab spacing is included This is the most basic kind of format, which all mail programs can read
- plain text
- A string of text to be displayed with one value for each text attribute, i e , one typeface, one slant, and one weight Contrast Formatted text
- plain turkey
- popular Australian game bird
- plain vanilla
- Lacking adornments or special features; basic or ordinary: plain vanilla stock options; a plain vanilla wardrobe
- plain wanderer
- small Australian bird related to the button quail; classified as wading bird but inhabits plains
- plain weave
- n. A weave in which the filling threads and the warp threads interlace alternately, forming a checkerboard pattern. Also called taffeta weave
- plain weave
- a basic style of weave in which the weft and warp threads intertwine alternately to produce a checkerboard effect
- plain-clothes
- Plain-clothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform. He was arrested by plain-clothes detectives as he walked through the customs hall. in plain clothes: see plain uniformed. plain-clothes police are police who wear ordinary clothes so that they can work without being recognized
- plain-clothes man
- detective who dresses in regular clothing in order to disguise himself
- plain-spoken
- approval If you say that someone is plain-spoken, you mean that they say exactly what they think, even when they know that what they say may not please other people. a plain-spoken American full of scorn for pomp and pretense. = frank
- plain-woven
- (of cloth) made in plain weave
- abyssal plain
- a large expanse of very flat and smooth ocean floor, usually found at depths of 4,600 to 5,500 meters (15,000 to 18,000 feet)
- alluvial plain
- A plain formed by the deposition of sediment from the periodic flooding of a river
- gibber plain
- A large desert pavement
- plaining
- Present participle of plain
- plaining
- A lamentation
And piteous plainings of the pretty babes, That mourn'd for fashion, ignorant what to fear.
- plainness
- The condition of being plain (in all senses)
- plainness
- The product or result of being plain
- the rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain
- A phrase used to demonstrate differences of pronunciation in various English dialects of the sound represented by the digraph ai
- Plains
- Great Plains (Plains States or Plains) is the grassland region of central North America extending from the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba southward to Texas. Much of the area is used for cattle ranching and wheat farming
Weather Service said that a copious amount of rain is expected to fall in the Plains - Meteoroloji Büyük Ovalar'da bol miktarda yağmur beklendiğini söyledi.
- plaining
- {n} a complaint
- plaining
- {a} making smooth
- plainly
- {a} sincerely, clearly, bluntly
- plainness
- {n} flatness, clearness, simplicity
- Plains
- The Great Plains region of North America
- plainer
- comparative of plain
- plainest
- superlative of plain
- plaining
- Complaining
- plaining
- Complaint
- plainly
- unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly'); "the answer is obviously wrong"; "she was in bed and evidently in great pain"; "he was manifestly too important to leave off the guest list"; "it is all patently nonsense"; "she has apparently been living here for some time"; "I thought he owned the property, but apparently not"; "You are plainly wrong"; "he is plain stubborn"
- plainly
- Obviously; clearly
- plainly
- In a plain manner; clearly
- plainly
- in a simple manner; without extravagance or embellishment; "she was dressed plainly"; "they lived very simply"
- plainly
- In a plain manner; simply; basically
- plainly
- simply, in an unembellished manner; clearly, obviously
- plainly
- emphasis You use plainly to indicate that you believe something is obviously true, often when you are trying to convince someone else that it is true. The judge's conclusion was plainly wrong Plainly, a more objective method of description must be adopted
- plainly
- You use plainly to indicate that something is easily seen, noticed, or recognized. He was plainly annoyed I could plainly see him turning his head to the right and left see also plain = clearly
- plainly
- in a simple manner; without extravagance or embellishment; "she was dressed plainly"; "they lived very simply
- plainness
- the appearance of being plain and unpretentious
- plainness
- the state of being unmixed with other material; "the plainness of vanilla ice cream"
- plainness
- {i} simplicity, state of being unembellished, state of being unadorned
- plainness
- an appearance that is not attractive or beautiful; "fine clothes could not conceal the girl's homeliness"
- plainness
- the appearance of being plain and unpretentious the state of being unmixed with other material; "the plainness of vanilla ice cream
- plainness
- clarity as a consequence of being perspicuous
- plainness
- The quality or state of being plain
- plains
- plural of plain
- the Plain
- French la Plaine In the French Revolution, the centrist deputies in the National Convention. They formed the majority of the assembly's members and were essential to the passage of any measures. Their name derived from their place on the floor of the assembly; above them sat the members of the Mountain, or Montagnard. Led by Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès, the Plain initially voted with the moderate Girondins but later joined the Montagnards in voting for the execution of Louis XVI. In 1794 they helped overthrow Maximilien de Robespierre and other extreme Jacobins (see Jacobin Club)