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Engelsk > Engelsk
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.
Svenska > Engelsk
slätt
     1. n-c. (geography) a plain (a large expanse of relatively flat land)
     2. adj. singular indefinite of slät

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Exempelmeningar

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?



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