plain sailing clear sailing easy going | easy unobstructed progress, after we solved that problem the rest was plain sailing |
flood overflow outpouring | a large flow |
flood control | (engineering) the art or technique of trying to control rivers with dams etc in order to minimize the occurrence of floods |
flood flowage | the act of flooding, filling to overflowing |
plain turkey Choriotis australis | popular Australian game bird |
plain wanderer Pedionomus torquatus | small Australian bird related to the button quail, classified as wading bird but inhabits plains |
civilian clothing civilian dress civilian garb plain clothes | ordinary clothing as distinguished from uniforms, work clothes, clerical garb, etc. |
flood floodlight flood lamp photoflood | light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam, used in photography |
knit knit stitch plain plain stitch | a basic knitting stitch |
plain weave taffeta weave | a basic style of weave in which the weft and warp threads intertwine alternately to produce a checkerboard effect |
flood tide flood rising tide | the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide), a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune -Shakespeare |
climax flood tide | the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding, the climax of the artist's career, in the flood tide of his success |
plain flour | flour that does not contain a raising agent |
Nullarbor Plain | a vast arid plain of southern Australia stretching inland from the Great Australian Bight, has sparse vegetation and no surface water and is almost uninhabited, the site of a major rocket research center |
Serengeti Serengeti Plain | a vast plain in Tanzania to the west of the Great Rift Valley known for its wildlife |
alluvial flat alluvial plain | a flat resulting from repeated deposits of alluvial material by running water |
coastal plain | a plain adjacent to a coast |
floodplain flood plain | a low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to flooding |
plain field champaign | extensive tract of level open land, they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain, he longed for the fields of his youth |
salt flat salt plain | a flat expanse of salt left by the evaporation of a body of salt water |
flood inundation deluge alluvion | the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land, plains fertilized by annual inundations |
flash flood flashflood | a sudden local flood of great volume and short duration |
Noah's flood Noachian deluge Noah and the Flood the Flood | (Biblical) the great deluge that is said in the Book of Genesis to have occurred in the time of Noah, it was brought by God upon the earth because of the wickedness of human beings |
flood inundation deluge torrent | an overwhelming number or amount, a flood of requests, a torrent of abuse |
flood | cover with liquid, usually water, The swollen river flooded the village, The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes |
flood | become filled to overflowing, Our basement flooded during the heavy rains |
overwhelm deluge flood out | charge someone with too many tasks |
complain kick plain sound off quetch kvetch | express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness, My mother complains all day, She has a lot to kick about |
deluge flood inundate swamp | fill quickly beyond capacity, as with a liquid, the basement was inundated after the storm, The images flooded his mind |
flood in | arrive in great numbers |
flood oversupply glut | supply with an excess of, flood the market with tennis shoes, Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient |
plain bare spare unembellished unornamented | lacking embellishment or ornamentation, a plain hair style, unembellished white walls, functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete |
homely plain | lacking in physical beauty or proportion, a homely child, several of the buildings were downright homely, a plain girl with a freckled face |
plain unvarnished | free from any effort to soften to disguise, the plain and unvarnished truth, the unvarnished candor of old people and children |
apparent evident manifest patent plain unmistakable | clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment, the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields, evident hostility, manifest disapproval, patent advantages, made his meaning plain, it is plain that he is no reactionary, in plain view |
plain unpatterned | lacking patterns especially in color |
plain | not elaborate or elaborated, simple, plain food, stuck to the plain facts, a plain blue suit, a plain rectangular brick building |
plain sheer unmingled unmixed | not mixed with extraneous elements, plain water, sheer wine, not an unmixed blessing |
plain-woven | (of cloth) made in plain weave |
obviously evidently manifestly patently apparently plainly plain | unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly'), the answer is obviously wrong, she was in bed and evidently in great pain, he was manifestly too important to leave off the guest list, it is all patently nonsense, she has apparently been living here for some time, I thought he owned the property, but apparently not, You are plainly wrong, he is plain stubborn |