plane vs plain

Definitions

noun

1. a carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood
2. a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood
3. an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets
4. a level of existence or development
5. (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape

verb

1. make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane
2. travel on the surface of water
3. cut or remove with or as if with a plane

adjective

1. having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another

Examples

It is, we learned, easier to learn to fly a plane than to master touch-typing.

They are essential atmospheric cladding which prevents the earth from becoming a frozen planet.

The terrestrial planets in our solar system all have very specific spectroscopic fingerprints that tell us quite a bit about their atmospheres.

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Definitions

verb

1. express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness

adjective

1. clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
2. lacking in physical beauty or proportion
3. lacking embellishment or ornamentation
4. lacking patterns especially in color
5. not mixed with extraneous elements

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noun

1. a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the lefthand side
2. extensive tract of level open land

adverb

1. unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly')

Examples

Their dried dung is found everywhere, and is in many places the only fuel afforded by the plains; their skulls, which last longer than any other part of the animal, are among the most familiar of objects to the plainsman; their bones are in many districts so plentiful that it has become a regular industry, followed by hundreds of men (christened "bone hunters" by the frontiersmen), to go out with wagons and collect them in great numbers for the sake of the phosphates they yield; and Bad Lands, plateaus, and prairies alike, are cut up in all directions by the deep ruts which were formerly buffalo trails.

Does the plain, unsugared doughy type bagel look alike surpass the overly decorated with hundreds and thousands and pumped full of sweet chemicals with optional coating of chocolate (half dipped) Tescos Express doughnut win every time?

Sometime in the early eighteen hundreds, they trekked to the flat plain between the Ohio River and Lake Erie and settled in Mount Vernon, which was then a few small buildings in a forest of tall trees.

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