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Meaning of plains

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plains

Pronunciation:/pleɪnz/

noun

Definitions

  1. A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.

    Example: There are several species of wild flowers growing in this field.

  2. 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.

  3. A place where competitive matches are carried out.

  4. Any of various figurative meanings, regularly dead metaphors.

noun

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  1. A lamentation.

verb

Definitions

  1. To complain.

  2. To lament, bewail.

    Example: to plain a loss

noun

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  1. An expanse of land with relatively low relief, usually exclusive of forests, deserts, and wastelands.

    Synonyms:flatlandgrassland

verb

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  1. To level; to raze; to make plain or even on the surface.

  2. To make plain or manifest; to explain.

noun

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  1. A level or flat surface.

  2. A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane).

  3. A level of existence or development. (eg, astral plane)

  4. 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.

noun

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  1. A tool for smoothing wood by removing thin layers from the surface.

noun

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  1. An airplane; an aeroplane.

  2. Any of various nymphalid butterflies, of various genera, having a slow gliding flight. Also called aeroplanes.

  3. The butterfly Bindahara phocides, family Lycaenidae, of Asia and Australasia.

noun

Definitions

  1. A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus.

  2. (Northern UK) A sycamore.