plain sailing
clear sailing
easy going | easy unobstructed progress, after we solved that problem the rest was plain sailing |
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. |
| document | anything serving as a representation of a person's thinking by means of symbolic marks |
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 |
transcription
written text | something written, especially copied from one medium to another, as a typewritten version of dictation |
text
textual matter | the words of something written, there were more than a thousand words of text, they handed out the printed text of the mayor's speech, he wants to reconstruct the original text |
| text | the main body of a written work (as distinct from illustrations or footnotes etc.), pictures made the text easier to understand |
| machine-displayable text | electronic text that is stored and used in the form of a digital image |
| machineeadable text | electronic text that is stored as strings of characters and that can be displayed in a variety of formats |
| electronic text | text that is in a form that computer can store or display on a computer screen |
textbook
text text edition
schoolbook
school text | a book prepared for use in schools or colleges, his economics textbook is in its tenth edition, the professor wrote the text that he assigned students to buy |
| reader | one of a series of texts for students learning to read |
| McGuffey Eclectic Readers | readers that combined lessons in reading with moralistic messages |
sacred text
sacred writing
religious writing
religious text | writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity |
document
written document
papers | writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature) |
commercial document
commercial instrument | a document of or relating to commerce |
legal document
legal instrument
official document
instrument | (law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right |
text file
document | (computer science) a computer file that contains text (and possibly formatting instructions) using seven-bit ASCII characters |
| ASCII text file | a text file that contains only ASCII characters without special formatting |
historical document
historical paper
historical record | writing having historical value (as opposed to fiction or myth etc.) |
| text editor | (computer science) an application that can be used to create and view and edit text files |
| text-matching | a computer program that looks for text that matches a given text, Google uses text-matching to find web pages containing a particular text |
| text | a passage from the Bible that is used as the subject of a sermon, the preacher chose a text from Psalms to introduce his sermon |
| 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 |
copy editor
copyreader
text editor | an editor who prepares text for publication |
| lay reader | a layman who is authorized by the bishop to read parts of the service in an Anglican or Episcopal church |
lector
lecturer reader | a public lecturer at certain universities |
| lector reader | someone who reads the lessons in a church service, someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church |
| lip reader | someone who can understand spoken words by watching the movements of a speaker's lips |
| mind reader telepathist thoughteader | a magician who seems to discern the thoughts of another person (usually by clever signals from an accomplice) |
newsreader
news reader | someone who reads out broadcast news bulletin |
proofreader
reader | someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections |
| reader | a person who enjoys reading |
| reader | a person who can read, a literate person |
| reviewer referee reader | someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication |
| subscriber reader | someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication |
telepathist
thoughteader
mental telepathist
mind reader | someone with the power of communicating thoughts directly |
| document | a written account of ownership or obligation |
| document | support or supply with references, Can you document your claims? |
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 |