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1 plain
[plein] 1. adjective1) (simple or ordinary; without ornament or decoration: plain living; good, plain food.) simplu2) (easy to understand; clear: His words were quite plain.) clar3) (absolutely open or honest, with no attempt to be tactful: I'll be quite plain with you; plain speaking.) sincer4) (obvious: It's plain (to see) you haven't been practising your music.) evident, clar5) (not pretty: a rather plain girl.) oarecare2. noun1) (a large flat level piece of land: the plains of central Canada.) câmpie2) (a kind of knitting stitch.) ochi (de împletitură)•- plainly- plainness
- plain chocolate
- plain clothes
- plain sailing
- plain-spoken
- in plain English -
2 tongue
1) (the fleshy organ inside the mouth, used in tasting, swallowing, speaking etc: The doctor looked at her tongue.) limbă2) (the tongue of an animal used as food.) limbă3) (something with the same shape as a tongue: a tongue of flame.) limbă4) (a language: English is his mother-tongue / native tongue; a foreign tongue.) limbă
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