Word Finder - plain

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Flat, level.

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Simple.

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Obvious.

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Open.

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Not unusually beautiful; unattractive.

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Throughout high school she worried that she had a rather plain face.

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Not a trump.

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Simply.

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I plain forgot.

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Plainly; distinctly.

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Tell me plain: do you love me or no?

Her room was plain and basic.

I'm glad we were out in plain sight!

She was now plain rather than pretty.

And she is not at all so plain, either.

All the people I have ever met before were very plain to see.

Those are the plain and simple facts.

It was plain he regretted it.

The dress was full length, rather plain, with a high collar.

They were still surrounded by the magic plain bathed in moonlight and spangled with stars.

Tim's frustration was plain on his face.

He was making it plain enough.

It was plain that she was following a train of thought independent of her sister-in-law's words.

It was plain that he did not quite grasp where he was.

She pointed to a lady who was crossing the room followed by a very plain daughter.

It was plain that what troubled him most was that he had grieved me.

He sat in the "Plain," i.e.

It was plain that this "well?" referred to much that they both understood without naming.

The no-frills dining room is fairly plain, but the food is anything but.

Vara spoke off to the side with a warrior-like man in plain clothing of earthy colors.

Amritsar district is a nearly level plain, with a very slight slope from east to west.

The distinction between these two was made emphatic by Aquinas, who is at pains, especially in his treatise Contra Gentiles, to make it plain that each is a distinct fountain of knowledge, but that revelation is the more important of the two.

It is built on a level plain surrounded by low, gently sloping and beautifully wooded hills.

She did not like Princess Mary, whom she thought very plain, affected, and dry.

It was plain that her whole soul was in her prayer.

Several naan breads are served plain or stuffed with meat or potatoes.

Thenceforward it passes by deep gorges through the Mohmand hills, curving northward until it emerges into the Peshawar plain at Michni.

Since our conception of velocity is essentially relative, it is plain that any property possessed by a body in virtue of its motion can be effectively possessed by it only in relation to those bodies with respect to which it is moving.

Though himself a plain and almost illiterate soldier, he was a founder of schools, and he also provided medical attendance for the poor of Rome, by appointing a physician for each of the fourteen districts of the city.

Some of these experiments were made on Salisbury Plain and others in the Bristol Channel between Lavernock and Flat Holm and Bream Down in 1897.

First as regards the transmitting part, one essential element is the antenna, aerial, or air wire, which may take a variety of forms. It may consist of a single plain or stranded copper wire upheld at the top by an insulator from a mast, chimney or building.

If these spark balls are set at the right distance, then when the potential difference accumulates the antenna will be charged and at some stage suddenly discharged by the discharge leaping across the spark gap. This was Marconi's original method, and the plan is still used under the name of the direct method of excitation or the plain antenna.

By far the larger portion of Northern Italy is occupied by the basin of the Po, which comprises the whole of the broad plain extending from the foot of the Apennines to that of the Alps, together with the valleys and slopes on both sides of it.

The rather level surface of the " worn down mountains " of the north of the state and the coastal plain beds of the southern and western parts are now dissected by rivers, which make most of the state a rolling or hilly country, without strong relief.

She slid her feet into plain sandals provided by the convent along with her plain sweats and T-shirt.

He'd made it plain enough how he felt.

That the emperor sincerely sympathized with Alexius, and suspected Peter of harbouring murderous designs against his son, is plain from his confidential letter to George I.

Its military importance was recognized in 427 B.C. by the Spartans, who sent a garrison to guard the Trachinian plain against the marauding highland tribes of Oeta and built a citadel close by the Asopus gorge with the new name of Heraclea.

A little south of Samarra the stony plateau of Mesopotamia ends, and the alluvial plain of Irak, ancient Babylonia, begins.

The basin of the Garonne occupies south-western France with the exception of the tracts covered by the secondary basins of the Adour, the Aude, the Hrault, the Orb and other smaller rivers, and the lowlying plain of the Landes, which is watered by numerous coast rivers, notably by the Leyre.

No evidences of recent lava flows can be found in the interior over the great alluvial plain, the Lower, or the Higher Steppes.

From a geological standpoint, the Great Australian Plain and the fertile valley of the Nile have had a similar origin.

In seasons of drought they are hardly more than swamps and mud flats, which for a time may become a grassy plain, or desolate coast encrusted with salt.

The second and marine type of the Jurassics occurs in Western Australia, on the coastal plain skirting the western foot of the western plateau.

Some of the Kassite deities were introduced into the Babylonian pantheon, and the Kassite tribe of Khabira seems to have settled in the Babylonian plain.

The descent from the summits of the range into the plain is somewhat less abrupt on the western than it is on the eastern side, and between the foot of the mountains and the Strait of Malacca the largest known alluvial deposits of tin are situated.

But it is plain that, once convinced of the necessity for the king's execution, he was the chief instrument in overcoming all scruples among his judges, and in resisting the protests and appeals of the Scots.

Maceio is attractively situated in the midst of large plantations of coco-nut and dende palms, though the broad sandy beach in front and the open sun-burned plain behind give a barren character to its surroundings.

The city stands on a hill separated by a little plain from the harbour; towards the north and east it communicates with a fertile valley; on the south and west it is hemmed in by high mountains.

There is no other instance in Europe of a basin of similar extent equally clearly characterized—the perfectly level character of the plain being as striking as the boldness with which the lower slopes of the mountain ranges begin to rise on each side of it.

The Adda flows out of the lake at its south-eastern extremity at Lecco, and has thence a course through the plain of above 70 m.