Found 3 items, similar to plaining.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: plain
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: plain
plain
adj 1: clearly apparent or obvious to the mind or senses;
“the
effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees
the parched fields”;
“evident hostility”;
“manifest
disapproval”;
“patent advantages”;
“made his meaning
plain”;
“it is plain that he is no reactionary”;
“in
plain view” [syn:
apparent,
evident,
manifest,
patent]
2: not elaborate or elaborated; simple;
“plain food”;
“stuck to
the plain facts”;
“a plain blue suit”;
“a plain
rectangular brick building” [ant:
fancy]
3: lacking patterns especially in color [syn:
unpatterned]
[ant:
patterned]
4: not mixed with extraneous elements;
“plain water”;
“sheer
wine”;
“not an unmixed blessing” [syn:
sheer,
unmingled,
unmixed]
5: free from any effort to soften to disguise;
“the plain and
unvarnished truth”;
“the unvarnished candor of old people
and children” [syn:
unvarnished]
6: lacking embellishment or ornamentation;
“a plain hair
style”;
“unembellished white walls”;
“functional
architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete” [syn:
unembellished,
unornamented]
7: lacking stylistic embellishment;
“a literal description”;
“wrote good but plain prose”;
“a plain unadorned account
of the coronation”;
“a forthright unembellished style”
[syn:
literal,
unembellished]
8: comprehensible to the general public;
“written for the
popular press in plain nontechnical language” [syn:
popular]
9: lacking in physical beauty or proportion;
“a homely child”;
“several of the buildings were downright homely”;
“a plain
girl with a freckled face” [syn:
homely]
plain
adv : 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” [syn:
obviously,
evidently,
manifestly,
patently,
apparently,
plainly]
plain
n 1: extensive tract of level open land;
“they emerged from the
woods onto a vast open plain”;
“he longed for the fields
of his youth” [syn:
field,
champaign]
2: a basic knitting stitch [syn:
knit,
knit stitch,
plain stitch
]
plain
v : express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness;
“My mother complains all day”;
“She has a lot to kick
about” [syn:
complain,
kick,
sound off,
quetch,
kvetch]
[ant:
cheer]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Plaining
Plaining
\Plain"ing\, n.
Complaint. [Poetic] --Shak.
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Plaining
\Plain"ing\, a.
Complaining. [Poetic] --Bryant.
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Plain
\Plain\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Plained; p. pr. & vb. n.
Plaining.] [Cf.
Plane, v.]
1. To plane or level; to make plain or even on the surface.
[R.]
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We would rake Europe rather, plain the East.
--Wither.
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2. To make plain or manifest; to explain.
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What's dumb in show, I'll plain in speech. --Shak.
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