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Plaining

A battle with cavalrymen takes place on a plain with trees. On a hill in the background the fortress Königstein.
A battle with cavalrymen takes place on a plain with trees. On a hill in the background the fortress Königstein.
Illustrations
Canopy bed in pine, decorated with plain and chiselled velvet. The four curtains cover the twisted stiles. In front of the lying frame, lines have been applied, which are trimmed with brown velvet and trimmings. Scalloped lambrequins hang under the lines and along the edges of the sky. The canopy has a main frame with a hollow curved frieze and a cornice with scrolls. The back has a sculpted centerpiece and attachment with a seven-pointed crown. Coming from Rosendael Castle (Gelderland). The four-poster bed comes with an embroidered bedspread.
Canopy bed in pine, decorated with plain and chiselled velvet. The four curtains cover the twisted stiles. In front of the lying frame, lines have been applied, which are trimmed with brown velvet and trimmings. Scalloped lambrequins hang under the lines and along the edges of the sky. The canopy has a main frame with a hollow curved frieze and a cornice with scrolls. The back has a sculpted centerpiece and attachment with a seven-pointed crown. Coming from Rosendael Castle (Gelderland). The four-poster bed comes with an embroidered bedspread.
Knee pants, brown, with flap closure and two side pockets. Woven in plain / plain weave with eleven Z-twisted warp threads and nine Z-twisted weft threads per centimeter. Including an iron pin.
Knee pants, brown, with flap closure and two side pockets. Woven in plain / plain weave with eleven Z-twisted warp threads and nine Z-twisted weft threads per centimeter. Including an iron pin.
Wooden drumstick.
Wooden drumstick.
Sunset over a plain along the Somme
Mountain landscape overlooking a plain
- Replica of a 17th or 18th century drumstick. - Replica of a 17th or 18th century drumstick, the Netherlands, 20th century.
- Replica of a 17th or 18th century drumstick. - Replica of a 17th or 18th century drumstick, the Netherlands, 20th century.
Tablecloth of silk velvet, plain purple-purple, finished with gouggalon and gold fringe. The braid with zigzag pattern and four leaves. The tablecloth shows a lot of wear.
Tablecloth of silk velvet, plain purple-purple, finished with gouggalon and gold fringe. The braid with zigzag pattern and four leaves. The tablecloth shows a lot of wear.
Plain sheet with two prints of different negatives.
Plain sheet with two prints of different negatives.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
One plain milk chocolate candy bar has more protein than a banana.
  1. Plaining
    Complaining.
  2. Plaining
    Complaint.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
To burn off one plain M&M candy, you need to walk the full length of a football field.
  1. (n) plaining
    Mourning; lamenting.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. Plaining
    (Shak.) complaint
Quotations
Oscar Wilde
Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
Oscar Wilde
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Evelyn Waugh
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
Evelyn Waugh
No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
Thomas A. Bennett
The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.
John Locke
Piet Hein
The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.
Piet Hein
Idioms

Plain as a pikestaff - (UK) If something is as plain as a pikestaff, it is very clear.

Plain as the nose on your face - If something is as plain as the nose on your face, it is very clear and obvious.

Plain Jane - A plain Jane is a woman who isn't particularly attractive.

Plain sailing - If something is relatively easy and there are no problems doing it, it is plain sailing.

Etymology

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary O. Fr. pleigner (Fr. plaindre)—L. plangĕre, to lament.

Usage in the news

The Plain Dealer has managed to endorse Josh Mandel as the Republican candidate for Senate (Forum, Sunday) while writing hardly anything positive about him. blog.cleveland.com

1/3 cup plain fat-free yogurt. ctv.tv

Chuck Crow, The Plain Dealer Tim Belcher , in 2002. cleveland.com

Peggy Turbett, The Plain Dealer A small cacao army awaits those who order the chocolate Napoleon at L'Albatros Brasserie and Bar in Cleveland. cleveland.com

Luffey, age 93, of Delano, died Wednesday, Nov 28, 2007 at the Haven Homes in Maple Plain. herald-journal.com

Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism By Darren Dochuk (W. Norton, 520 pp. tnr.com

The plain pie at Joey's Pizzeria & Catering (460 Joralemon St, Belleville. nj.com

View full size Joshua Gunter, The Plain Dealer Josh Cribbs probably finds it easier to escape from tacklers than from angry fans upset over his tweeted picture of "my boy" LeBron James at the NBA All-Star game. cleveland.com

Broad Ripple's new binary eatery hides in plain sight. ibj.com

View full size Plain Dealer file photo. cleveland.com

New research suggests drinking plain old-fashioned black tea may fight stress and promote relaxation. cbsnews.com

The mountains, the rolling plains, the caverns. readthehook.com

While your video plays, a smaller side window displays a Google satellite image of your location with the option to see a photo image, a topo map or a plain old road map. ired.com

View full size Plain Dealer file Vapor from cooling tower at The Davis Besse nuclear power plant billows over farmland along Rt. cleveland.com

On the Plains, cold weather prevails, according to the USDA's Joint Ag Weather Facility. agweb.com

Usage in scientific papers

The point C of the unit sphere, which does not belong to the region Ω, is mapped by (14) into the deleted point 0 of the complex plain (λ), see Fig. 2.
Systems of $n$ subspaces and representations of $*$-algebras generated by projections

Finally we show that in contrast to classical (algorithmic) randomness—which cannot be naturally characterised in terms of plain complexity—asymptotic randomness admits such a characterisation.
Natural Halting Probabilities, Partial Randomness, and Zeta Functions

Let s > 1 be a computable real, T a universal Turing machine, and KT be the plain complexity induced by T .
Natural Halting Probabilities, Partial Randomness, and Zeta Functions

To state this result more precisely we fix a universal Turing machine T and denote by KT the induced plain complexity.
Natural Halting Probabilities, Partial Randomness, and Zeta Functions

Theorem 32 has given rise to alternate definitions of random sequences with respect to the plain complexity and a characterisation of random reals: the real α ∈ (0, 1) is random iff KT (α[m]) ≥ m − KT (bin(m)) − c, for al l m ≥ 1, .
Natural Halting Probabilities, Partial Randomness, and Zeta Functions

Usage in literature

Come, man, I have spoken to you plainly, speak plainly to me. "Simon Dale" by Anthony Hope

May I ask you very kindly, but very plainly, are you like that? "Quiet Talks on Power" by S.D. Gordon

Proceeding along the leaf: 3 plain, 1 picot, 3 plain, 3 plain on the stitch at the point, 3 plain, 1 picot, 7 plain *****. "Encyclopedia of Needlework" by Thérèse de Dillmont

Fourth row: slip 1, seam 35, knit 1 plain, seam 15, knit 1 plain, seam 15, knit 1 plain, seam 36. "Exercises in Knitting" by Cornelia Mee

The facts as to the use of that name are very plain, and as instructive as they are plain. "Expositions of Holy Scripture" by Alexander Maclaren

The latter could be plainly heard more than a mile over the plain, like repeated discharges of a musket. "The Bush Boys" by Captain Mayne Reid

The train with which I am to cross the plains will not be going for six months to come. "The Lone Ranche" by Captain Mayne Reid

The plain before me is level, as though its surface were liquid. "The Rifle Rangers" by Captain Mayne Reid

He dreamed of the plains and horses and herds of buffalo and troops of Indians filing down the distant slopes. "The Eagle's Heart" by Hamlin Garland

One day, while gazing toward the north, he beheld a beautiful young woman of slender and majestic form, standing on the plains. "The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians" by Henry R. Schoolcraft

Usage in poetry
Tortured of thirst,
There came to the mud
A son of the plain,
Who sank where he stood.
"Crows" by Mary Eliza Fullerton
God’s will is plain:
he seeks readiness –
so let your will answer.
Let your no become yes.
"The Will" by Eberhard Arnold Author object (152)
We come in many guises;
But every one is plain
To each pure thought that rises
Again and yet again.
"The Spirits for Good" by Henry Lawson Author object (290)
The corn, in golden light,
Waves o'er the plain;
The sickle's gleam is bright;
Full swells the grain.
"Brandenburgh Harvest-Song" by Felicia Dorothea Hemans Author object (205)
Ah, none of these
May make it plain,
No image we may seek
Shall match the magic of his gurgling beak.
"An Ode To Spring" by Richard Le Gallienne Author object (558)
The long hot day gone over,
And starlight come again;
And I, weary rover,
Lie camped on One Tree Plain.
"Jack Cornstalk as a Poet" by Henry Lawson Author object (290)