Plainname

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  A surname.

plainadj詞源 1/pleɪn/

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  archaicregionalFlat, level.

  • The crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain.
  • The Vampyre Bat. Tailless bat with the nose plain, and the flying-membrane divided between the thighs.
• 2

  Simple, unaltered.

  • He was dressed simply in plain black clothes.
  • a plain tune
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  Simple, unaltered.

  • a plain pink polycotton skirt
• 4

  Simple, unaltered.

  • They're just plain people like you or me.
  • plain yet pious Christians
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  Simple, unaltered.

  • Would you like a poppy bagel or a plain bagel?
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  computingengineeringmathematicsSimple, unaltered.

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  Obvious.

  • 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.
• 8

  Obvious.

  • His answer was just plain nonsense.

plainadv詞源 1/pleɪn/

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  Simply.

  • It was just plain stupid.
  • I plain forgot.
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  archaicPlainly; distinctly.

  • Tell me plain: do you love me or no?

plainnoun詞源 2/pleɪn/

• 1

  An expanse of land with relatively low relief and few trees, especially a grassy expanse.

  • Him the Ammonite / Worshipped in Rabba and her watery plain.
  • 1961, J. A. Philip. Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato. In: Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92. p. 467. 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”
• 2

  A broad, flat expanse in general, as of water.

  • Fair ship, that from the Italian shore, ⁠Sailest the placid ocean-plains ⁠With my lost Arthur’s loved remains, Spread thy full wings, and waft him o’er.
• 3

  archaicSynonym of field in reference to a battlefield.

  • You have stormed no town and found the money there ; neither did you find it in the plains of Plassey after the defeat of the Nawab
  • Lead forth my soldiers to the plain.

plainverb詞源 2/pleɪn/

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

  • Frownst thou thereat aspiring Lancaster, The sworde shall plane the furrowes of thy browes,
  • We would rake Europe rather, plain the East;
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  obsoleteTo make plain or manifest; to explain.

  • What’s dumb in show, I’ll plain with speech.

plainnoun詞源 3/pleɪn/

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  rareA lamentation.

  • The warrior-threat, the infant's plain, The mother's screams, were heard in vain;

plainverb詞源 3/pleɪn/

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  obsoleteTo complain.

  • Persones and parisch prestes · pleyned hem to þe bischop / Þat here parisshes were pore · sith þe pestilence tyme […].
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  archaicTo lament, bewail.

  • to plain a loss
  • Shepheards, that wont[…] Oft times to plaine your loves concealed smart

plainadj詞源 4/pleɪn/

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  obsoleteFull, complete in number or extent.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• plane