plain sailing
clear sailing
easy going | easy unobstructed progress, after we solved that problem the rest was plain sailing |
yellow-breasted bunting
Emberiza aureola | common in Russia and Siberia |
yellow-breasted chat
Icteria virens | American warbler noted for imitating songs of other birds |
red-breasted nuthatch
Sitta canadensis | bluish-grey nuthatch with reddish breast, of northern coniferous forests |
white-breasted nuthatch
Sitta carolinensis | bluish-grey nuthatch with black head and white breast, of eastern North America |
red-breasted sapsucker
Sphyrapicus varius ruber | western North American sapsucker |
| piculet | small woodpeckers of South America and Africa and East Indies having soft rounded tail feathers |
red-breasted merganser
Mergus serrator | widely distributed merganser of America and Europe |
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 |
red-breasted snipe
Limnodromus scolopaceus | a dowitcher with a red breast |
civilian clothing
civilian dress
civilian garb
plain clothes | ordinary clothing as distinguished from uniforms, work clothes, clerical garb, etc. |
| double-breasted jacket | a jacket having fronts that overlap enough for two separate rows of buttons |
| double-breasted suit | a suit with a double-breasted jacket |
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 |
| single-breasted jacket | a jacket having fronts that overlap only enough for a single row of buttons |
| single-breasted suit | a suit having a single-breasted jacket |
| 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 |
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 |
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 |
bare-breasted
braless
toples | having the breasts uncovered or featuring such nudity, topless waitresses, a topless cabaret |
plain
unvarnished | free from any effort to soften to disguise, the plain and unvarnished truth, the unvarnished candor of old people and children |
| double-breasted | (of clothing) fastened by lapping one edge of the front well over the other usually with a double row of buttons, double-breasted jacket, double-breasted suit |
| single-breasted | (of clothing) closing with a narrow overlap and fastened with a single row of buttons, a single-breasted jacket |
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 |
pigeon-breasted
chicken-breasted | having a chest deformity marked by a projecting breastbone caused by infantile rickets |
| breasted | having a breast or breasts, or breasts as specified, used chiefly in compounds, small-breasted, red-breasted sandpiper |
| 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 |