daily English
Adjective
( -)
quotidian, that occurs every day, or at least every working day
* Bible, Matthew vi. 11
- Give us this day our daily bread.
* Macaulay
- Bunyan has told us that in New England his dream was the daily subject of the conversation of thousands.
* Milton
- Man hath his daily work of body or mind / Appointed, which declares his dignity, / And the regard of Heaven on all his ways.
diurnal, by daylight, as opposed to nightly
Adverb
(-)
quotidianly, every day
diurnally, by daylight
Noun
(dailies)
a newspaper that is published every day.
(UK) a cleaner who comes in daily.
(UK, slang) a daily disposable.
(video games) A quest in a massively multiplayer online game that can be repeated every day for cumulative rewards.
Synonyms
* daily help
* daily maid (woman only)
See also
* quotidian
* everyday
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plain English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) pleyn, playn, (etyl) plain, plein, from (etyl) .
Adjective
( er)
* Bible, (w) xl. 4
- The crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain .
Simple.
# Ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation; unembellished.
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# Of just one colour; lacking a pattern.
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# Simple in habits or qualities; unsophisticated, not exceptional, ordinary.
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#* (Henry Hammond) (1605-1660)
- plain yet pious Christians
#* (Abraham Lincoln) (1809-1865)
- the plain people
# (label) Having only few ingredients, or no additional ingredients or seasonings; not elaborate, without toppings or extras.
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# (label) Containing no extended or nonprinting characters (especially in plain text).
Obvious.
# Evident to one's senses or reason; manifest, clear, unmistakable.
#* 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 2, ch. XV, ''Practical — Devotional
- In fact, by excommunication or persuasion, by impetuosity of driving or adroitness in leading, , it is now becoming plain everywhere, is a man that generally remains master at last.
# Downright; total, unmistakable (as intensifier).
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Open.
# Honest and without deception; candid, open; blunt.
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#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
- an honest mind, and plain
# Clear; unencumbered; equal; fair.
#* Felton
- Our troops beat an army in plain fight.
Not unusually beautiful; unattractive.
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Synonyms
* no-frills
* normal
* ordinary
* simple
* unadorned
* unseasoned
* See also
Antonyms
* bells and whistles
* decorative
* exotic
* fancy
* ornate
Derived terms
* plain and simple
* plain as a pikestaff
* plain as the nose on one's face
* plain chocolate
* plain clothes
* plain-dealing
* plain film
* plain flour
* plain-hearted
* plain Jane
* plain-laid
* plain line
* plain paper
* plain sailing
* plain song/plainsong
* plain-spoken
* plain text
* plain-vanilla
* plain weave
* plain-winged
* plainly
* plainness
Related terms
* plane
* planar
Adverb
( -)
(colloquial) Simply
- It was just plain stupid.
- I plain forgot.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) plainer, pleiner, variant of (etyl) and (etyl) pleindre, plaindre, from (etyl) plangere, present active infinitive of .
Alternative forms
* plein
Noun
( en noun)
(rare, poetic) A lamentation.
* 1815 , Sir , The Lady of the Isles , Canto IV, part IX
- The warrior-threat, the infant's plain ,
- The mother's screams, were heard in vain;
Verb
( en verb)
To lament, bewail.
- to plain a loss
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* Bishop Joseph Hall
- Thy mother could thee for thy cradle set / Her husband's rusty iron corselet; / Whose jargling sound might rock her babe to rest, / That never plain' d of his uneasy nest.
* , More Poems , XXV, lines 5-9
- Then came I crying, and to-day,
- With heavier cause to plain ,
- Depart I into death away,
- Not to be born again.
Related terms
* plaint
* complain
Etymology 3
From (etyl) plain, from (etyl) .
Noun
( wikipedia plain)
( en noun)
An expanse of land with relatively low relief.
* Milton
- 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”
A battlefield.
- (Arbuthnot)
* Shakespeare
- Lead forth my soldiers to the plain .
(obsolete) A .
Synonyms
* flatlands
* high plain
* plateau
* prairie
* steppe
Antonyms
* cliff
* gorge
* mountain
* vale
Derived terms
* abyssal plain
* alluvial plain
* flood plain/floodplain
* gibber plain
* Great Plains
* peneplain
* Plains
* plain wanderer
* salt plain
* the rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain
Related terms
* esplanade
* explain
See also
* grassland
* meadow
Verb
( en verb)
(obsolete) To plane or level; to make plain or even on the surface.
* Wither
- We would rake Europe rather, plain the East.
(obsolete) To make plain or manifest; to explain.
* Shakespeare
- What's dumb in show, I'll plain in speech.
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