{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "pleɪn" ], "imgurl": [ "/var/www/html/blab/dic/img/plain.jpg", "/var/www/html/blab/dic/img/plain.jpg" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/plain.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/plain.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English pleyn, borrowed from Anglo-Norman pleyn, playn, Middle French plain, plein, and Old French plain, from Latin plānus (“flat, even, level, plain”).", "From Anglo-Norman plainer, pleiner, variant of Anglo-Norman and Old French pleindre, plaindre, from Latin plangere, present active infinitive of plangō.", "From Old French plain, from Latin plānum (“level ground, a plain”), neuter substantive from plānus (“level, even, flat”). Doublet of llano, piano, and plane.", "From Middle English pleyn, borrowed from Old French plein, from Latin plēnus (“full, filled, complete”). Ultimately from Proto-Italic *plēnos, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”). Doublet of plene, plenary, and full." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Alternative_forms", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "plaine (obsolete)" } ] }, { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(now rare, regional) Flat, level." }, { "mean": "Simple, unaltered.", "submean": [ "Ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation; unembellished. \nHe was dressed simply in plain black clothes.\na plain tune\n", "Of just one colour; lacking a pattern.\na plain pink polycotton skirt", "Simple in habits or qualities; unsophisticated, not exceptional, ordinary. \nThey're just plain people like you or me.\n", "(of food) Having only few ingredients, or no additional ingredients or seasonings; not elaborate, without toppings or extras. \nWould you like a poppy bagel or a plain bagel?", "(computing) Containing no extended or nonprinting characters (especially in plain text). " ] }, { "mean": "Obvious.", "submean": [ "Evident to one's senses or reason; manifest, clear, unmistakable. \n", "Downright; total, unmistakable (as intensifier). \nHis answer was just plain nonsense." ] }, { "mean": "Open.", "submean": [ "Honest and without deception; candid, open; blunt. \nLet me be plain with you: I don't like her.\n", "Clear; unencumbered; equal; fair.\n" ] }, { "mean": "Not unusually beautiful; unattractive. \n\nThroughout high school she worried that she had a rather plain face." }, { "mean": "(card games) Not a trump." } ] }, { "name": "Adverb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(colloquial) Simply.\nIt was just plain stupid.\nI plain forgot." }, { "mean": "(archaic) Plainly; distinctly.\nTell me plain: do you love me or no?" } ] }, { "name": "Alternative_forms_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "plein" } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(rare, poetic) A lamentation.\n1815, Sir Walter Scott, The Lady of the Isles, Canto IV, part IX\nThe warrior-threat, the infant's plain,The mother's screams, were heard in vain;" } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(reflexive, obsolete) To complain." }, { "mean": "(transitive, intransitive, now rare, poetic) To lament, bewail. \nto plain a loss" } ] }, { "name": "Noun_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "An expanse of land with relatively low relief, usually exclusive of forests, deserts, and wastelands.\n\nSynonyms: flatland, grassland\nHypernyms: land, terrain\nHyponyms: prairie, steppe" }, { "mean": "(archaic) Synonym of field in reference to a battlefield." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) Alternative spelling of plane: a flat geometric field." } ] }, { "name": "Verb_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(obsolete, transitive) To level; to raze; to make plain or even on the surface.\n1594 (first publication), Christopher Marlow, The Trovblesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edvvard the Second, King of England: , London: for Henry Bell, , published 1622, →OCLC, (please specify the page):Frownst thou thereat aspiring Lancaster,The sworde shall plane the furrowes of thy browes,\n1612, George Wither, Prince Henrie’s Obsequies, Elegy 24, in Egerton Brydges (editor), Restituta, Volume I, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1814, p. 399,\nThough kept by Rome’s and Mahomet’s chiefe powers;They should not long detain him there in thrall:We would rake Europe rather, plain the East;Dispeople the whole Earth before the doome:" }, { "mean": "(obsolete, transitive) To make plain or manifest; to explain.\nc. 1607–1608, William Shakeſpeare, The Late, And much admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. , London: Imprinted at London for Henry Goſſon,  , published 1609, →OCLC, :What’s dumb in show, I’ll plain with speech." } ] }, { "name": "Adjective_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(obsolete) Full, complete in number or extent." } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "", "", "", "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "대체_양식", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "형용사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "", "", "" ] }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "" ] }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "" ] }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "부사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "대체_forms_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "형용사_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] }, "synonyms": { "org": [ "(lacking adornment or ornamentation): no-frills, simple, unadorned, unseasoned; see also Thesaurus:bare-bones", "(of just one colour): monochrome", "(not exceptional): normal, ordinary", "(obvious): blatant, ostensible; see also Thesaurus:obvious or Thesaurus:explicit", "(intensifier): consarn, darned, stinking; see also Thesaurus:damned", "(honest and without deception): frank, sincere; see also Thesaurus:honest" ], "kor": [ "", "", "", "", "", "" ] } } }