plains

/pleɪnz/

noun

  1. 1

    A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.

    There are several species of wild flowers growing in this field.
  2. 2

    A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals.

    A crop circle was made in a corn field.
  3. 3

    A place where competitive matches are carried out.

  4. 4

    Any of various figurative meanings, regularly dead metaphors.

noun

  1. 1

    A lamentation.

verb

  1. 1

    To complain.

  2. 2

    To lament, bewail.

    to plain a loss

noun

  1. 1

    An expanse of land with relatively low relief, usually exclusive of forests, deserts, and wastelands.

verb

  1. 1

    To level; to raze; to make plain or even on the surface.

  2. 2

    To make plain or manifest; to explain.

noun

  1. 1

    A level or flat surface.

  2. 2

    A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane).

  3. 3

    A level of existence or development. (eg, astral plane)

  4. 4

    A roughly flat, thin, often moveable structure used to create lateral force by the flow of air or water over its surface, found on aircraft, submarines, etc.

  5. 5

    (Unicode) Any of a number of designated ranges of sequential code points.

  6. 6

    An imaginary plane which divides the body into two portions.

noun

  1. 1

    A tool for smoothing wood by removing thin layers from the surface.

noun

  1. 1

    An airplane; an aeroplane.

  2. 2

    Any of various nymphalid butterflies, of various genera, having a slow gliding flight. Also called aeroplanes.

  3. 3

    The butterfly Bindahara phocides, family Lycaenidae, of Asia and Australasia.

noun

  1. 1

    A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus.

  2. 2

    (Northern UK) A sycamore.

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