plain
/pleɪn/adjective
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Flat, level.
Simple.
Obvious.
Open.
adverb
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Simply.
Example: I plain forgot.
Plainly; distinctly.
Example: Tell me plain: do you love me or no?
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/pleɪn/Definitions
Flat, level.
Simple.
Obvious.
Open.
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Simply.
Example: I plain forgot.
Plainly; distinctly.
Example: Tell me plain: do you love me or no?
/pleɪn/Definitions
A lamentation.
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To complain.
To lament, bewail.
Example: to plain a loss
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A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.
Example: There are several species of wild flowers growing in this field.
A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals.
Example: A crop circle was made in a corn field.
A place where competitive matches are carried out.
Any of various figurative meanings, regularly dead metaphors.
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An expanse of land with relatively low relief, usually exclusive of forests, deserts, and wastelands.
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To level; to raze; to make plain or even on the surface.
To make plain or manifest; to explain.
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A level or flat surface.
A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane).
A level of existence or development. (eg, astral plane)
A roughly flat, thin, often moveable structure used to create lateral force by the flow of air or water over its surface, found on aircraft, submarines, etc.
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A tool for smoothing wood by removing thin layers from the surface.
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An airplane; an aeroplane.
Any of various nymphalid butterflies, of various genera, having a slow gliding flight. Also called aeroplanes.
The butterfly Bindahara phocides, family Lycaenidae, of Asia and Australasia.
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A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus.
(Northern UK) A sycamore.