In plain English

Definition

plain /pleÇn/ adj (-er, -est) ၁။ ေပၚလြင္ [ေသာ]။ ေပၚေပၚထင္ထင္ [ျဖစ္ေသာ]။ ျပတ္ျပတ္သားသား [ေျပာေသာ]။ The markings along the route are quite plain. ❍ He made it plain (to us) that we should leave. ❍ She made her annoyance plain. ❍ There is no more money–do I make myself plain? ၂။ တဲ့တိုး၊ မကြယ္မေထာင့္၊ ေျဗာင္ [ေျပာေသာ]။ The plain truth/fact is I don't want to go. ❍ a politician with a reputation for plain speaking. ၃။ (က) ႐ိုးစင္းေသာ။ a plain but very elegant dress ❍ plain food/cooking ❍ plain cake (eg without fruit). (ခ) ေျဗာင္။ ဗလာ။ plain fabric/wallpaper/tiles ❍ write on plain paper (ie without lines). ၄။ သာမန္။ ႐ိုး႐ိုး။ You don't need any special skills for this job, just plain common sense. ❍ I don't use a word processor, just a plain, old-fashioned typewriter. ၅။ ( derog ) ရြက္ၾကမ္းေရက်ဳိမွ် ျဖစ္ေသာ (႐ုပ္ရည္ရိွ သည့္မိန္းမ)။ n ေျမျပန္႔လြင္ျပင္။ ride across the vast, grassy plain ❍ the Great Plains of the American Midwest. adv ( infml ) သက္သက္။ လံုးလံုး။ That is just plain stupid. ❏ in plain English [ IDM ] ႐ိုး႐ိုးရွင္းရွင္း။ a document written in plain English. ❏ (as) plain as a pikestaff; ( Brit ) as plain as the nose on one's face [ IDM ] ( Brit ) သိသာလြန္းေသာ။ ကြက္ကြက္ ကြင္းကြင္းျဖစ္ေသာ။ ❏ plain chocolate n [U] (ခါးသက္သက္အရသာရိွေသာ) ေခ်ာကလက္သက္သက္။ Compare MILK CHOCOLATE ❏ plain clothes n အရပ္ဝတ္အရပ္စား။ The policemen were in plain clothes. adj အရပ္ဝတ္အရပ္စားဝတ္။ a plain-clothes detective. ❏ plain flour n [U] [တေဆးမပါေသာ] ဂ်ံဳမႈန္႔။ Compare SELF-RAISING FLOUR ❏ plainly adv (က) သိသိသာသာ။ He plainly intended to ignore my advice. ❍ There is plainly a need for more consultation. ❍ That is plainly absurd. ❍ Plainly, my presence was unwelcome. (ခ) အလြယ္တကူ။ ထင္ထင္ ရွားရွား။ The mountain tops are plainly visible from the village. plainness n [U] ❏ plain sailing [ IDM ] အထစ္အေငါ့မရိွ ေျဖာင့္ေျဖာင့္ ျဖဴးျဖဴးျဖစ္ျခင္း။ Once the design problems were solved, it was all/everything was plain sailing. plaid /plæd/ n ၁။ [C] စေကာ့လူမ်ဳိးတို႔၏ တိုင္းရင္းသား ဝတ္စံု၏ တစ္စိတ္တစ္ပိုင္းျဖစ္ေသာ သိုးေမြးတဘက္။ ၂။ [U] စေကာ့လူမ်ဳိး မ်ဳိးႏြယ္စုအလိုက္ဝတ္ေသာ အကြက္ဆင္။ a plaid jacket/skirt.

Examples

1. Hugh’s message was short
2. but the meaning was plain enough.
3. [it is plain (that)] : It was plain that they knew each other already.
4. [it is plain to someone (that)] : It was plain to everyone that Maude was not happy.
5. [make it plain] : Therese made it plain that she would not help Robert any more.
6. [be plain to see] : Her disappointment was plain to see.
7. A plain wooden table
8. The gardens were fairly plain
9. with few plants.
10. A plain white T-shirt
11. We sell a selection of plain and patterned ties.
12. A plain sponge cake
13. Plain yoghurt
14. The restaurant serves plain wholesome food.
15. He seems to go for plain quiet women.
16. It’s just plain Mr Cunningham now
17. no need to call me Doctor.
18. A plain answer
19. [plain speaking/talking] : She was admired for her plain speaking.