Simple vs Plane - What's the difference?
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As nouns the difference between simple and plane is that simple is (medicine) a preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant while plane is ( label) the thing, the point, the interesting thing, the main interest in something, unusualness, speciality. As an adjective simple is uncomplicated; taken by itself, with nothing added. As a verb simple is (transitive|intransitive|archaic) to gather simples, ie, medicinal herbs. As an adverb plane is ( label) particularly, especially, certainly.
simple English
Adjective
( er)
Uncomplicated; taken by itself, with nothing added.
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*:“[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic?”
*2001 , Sydney I. Landau, Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography , Cambridge University Press (ISBN 0-521-78512-X), page 167,
*:There is no simple way to define precisely a complex arrangement of parts, however homely the object may appear to be.
Without ornamentation; plain.
Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.
* (ca.1576-1634)
*:Full many fine men go upon my score, as simple as I stand here, and I trust them.
*(Lord Byron) (1788-1824)
*:Must thou trust Tradition's simple tongue?
*(Ralph Waldo Emerson) (1803-1882)
*:To be simple is to be great.
Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.
Trivial; insignificant.
*1485 , (Thomas Malory), (w, Le Morte d'Arthur) , Book X:
*:‘That was a symple cause,’ seyde Sir Trystram, ‘for to sle a good knyght for seyynge well by his maystir.’
Feeble-minded; foolish.
Structurally uncomplicated.
#(lb) Consisting of one single substance; uncompounded.
#(lb) Of a group: having no normal subgroup.
#(lb) Not compound, but possibly lobed.
#(lb) Consisting of a single individual or zooid; not compound.
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#(lb) Homogenous.
(lb) Mere; not other than; being only.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:A medicinewhose simple touch / Is powerful to araise King Pepin.
Synonyms
* (consisting of a single part or aspect) onefold
* (having few parts or features) plain
* See also
Antonyms
* (having few parts or features) complex, compound, complicated
* (uncomplicated) subtle
Derived terms
* fee simple
* future simple
* oversimple
* past simple
* plain and simple
* present simple
* pure and simple
* simple beam
* simple connectivity
* simple contract
* simple dislocation
* simple equation
* simple extension
* simple eye
* simple fraction
* simple fracture
* simple fruit
* simple function
* simple future
* simple group
* simple harmonic motion
* simple-hearted
* simple interest
* simple leaf
* simple linear regression
* simple machine
* simple mastectomy
* simple microscope
* simple-minded
* simple past
* simple pendulum
* simple pistil
* simple pole
* simple present
* simple protein
* simple regression
* simple sentence
* Simple Simon
* simple sugar
* simple syrup
* simple time
* simple trust
* simplehead
* simpleness
* simpless
* simplex
* simply
* single
* simplicity
* simpleton
Noun
( en noun)
(medicine) A preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.
*, II.37:
*:I know there are some simples , which in operation are moistening and some drying.
*Sir W. Temple
*:What virtue is in this remedy lies in the naked simple itself as it comes over from the Indies.
(obsolete) A term for a physician, derived from the medicinal term above.
(logic) A simple or atomic proposition.
(obsolete) Something not mixed or compounded.
*Shakespeare
*:compounded of many simples
(weaving) A drawloom.
(weaving) Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.
(Roman Catholic) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.
Verb
(simpl)
(transitive, intransitive, archaic) To gather simples, ie, medicinal herbs.
Derived terms
* simpler
* simplist
* simplify
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plane English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . The word was introduced in the seventeenth century to distinguish the geometrical senses from the other senses of plain.
Adjective
(er)
Of a surface: flat or level.
Noun
( en noun)
A level or flat surface.
(geometry) A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane).
A level of existence or development. (eg'', ''astral plane )
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.
(computing, Unicode) Any of a number of designated ranges of sequential code points.
(anatomy) An imaginary plane which divides the body into two portions.
Hyponyms
* (mathematics) real plane, complex plane
* (anatomy) coronal plane, frontal plane, sagittal plane, transverse plane
Derived terms
*
Related terms
* plain
* planar
Etymology 2
From (etyl), from (etyl), from (etyl), from
Noun
( en noun)
(countable) A tool for smoothing wood by removing thin layers from the surface.
See also
* rhykenologist
Verb
(plan)
To smooth (wood) with a plane.
Etymology 3
Abbreviated from aeroplane .
Noun
( en noun)
An airplane; an aeroplane.
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Derived terms
* floatplane
* planeside
* planespotter/plane spotter/plane-spotter
* plane spotting
* seaplane
Verb
(plan)
(nautical) To move in a way that lifts the bow of a boat out of the water.
To glide or soar.
Etymology 4
From (etyl) plane, from (etyl) platanus, from (etyl) .
Noun
( en noun)
(senseid)(countable) A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus .
(Northern UK) A sycamore.
Derived terms
* (l)
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