Engels Woord van de dag

plain

vlakte

Definities

Engels > Nederlands

plain

1. eenvoudig

2. vlakte

Engels > Engels

plain

1. adj. (now rare, regional) Flat, level.

2. adj. Simple.

3. adj. Ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation; unembellished.

He was dressed simply in plain black clothes.

a plain tune

4. adj. Of just one colour; lacking a pattern.

a plain pink polycotton skirt

5. adj. Simple in habits or qualities; unsophisticated, not exceptional, ordinary.

They're just plain people like you or me.

6. adj. (of food) Having only few ingredients, or no additional ingredients or seasonings; not elaborate, without toppings or extras.

Would you like a poppy bagel or a plain bagel?

7. adj. (computing) Containing no extended or nonprinting characters (especially in plain text).

8. adj. Obvious.

9. adj. Evident to one's senses or reason; manifest, clear, unmistakable.

10. adj. Downright; total, unmistakable (as intensifier).

His answer was just plain nonsense.

11. adj. Open.

12. adj. Honest and without deception; candid, open; blunt.

Let me be plain with you: I don't like her.

13. adj. Clear; unencumbered; equal; fair.

14. adj. Not unusually beautiful; unattractive.

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

15. adv. (colloquial) Simply

It was just plain stupid.

I plain forgot.

16. n. (rare, poetic) A lamentation.

17. v. (reflexive, obsolete) To complain.

18. v. (ambitransitive, now rare, poetic) To lament, bewail.

to plain a loss

19. n. An expanse of land with relatively low relief.

20. n. A battlefield.

21. n. (obsolete) A plane.

22. v. (obsolete, transitive) To level; to raze; to make plain or even on the surface.

23. v. (obsolete, transitive) To make plain or manifest; to explain.

Nederlands > Engels

vlakte

1. n-f. Flatness, levelness.

2. n-f. A plain, flatland (tract of land with relatively low relief, level terrain).

Uitspraak

Voorbeeldzinnen

I have told you the plain truth.
It's just that, plain macaroni, I think that's funny.
I can see my reaction plain as day.
It smacks of fraud, corruption and just plain dishonesty.
Why is it that you can read ancient hieroglyphics, but you can't see what's as plain as the desert moon?

Vorige woorden herzien

eight	stationery	sixty-nine	anaesthetic
fence	cable car	bark	wave
minute	skin	February	ambulance
fireplace	reading	white	tadpole

Willekeurig

bee	run	wrench	fifty-eight
basket	car	ray	sponge
lung	accelerator	car	winter
wallet	forty-two	long	land

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