English Dictionary
◊ PLAINLY
plainly
adv 1: unmistakably; "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"; (`plain'
is often used informally for `plainly' as in "he is
plain stubborn") [syn: {obviously}, {evidently}, {manifestly},
{patently}, {apparently}, {plain}]
2: in a simple manner; without extravagance or embellishment;
"she was dressed plainly"; "they lived very simply" [syn:
{simply}]
English Computing Dictionary
◊ DID YOU MEAN PLAIN?
PLAIN
Programming LAnguage for INteraction. Pascal-like, with
extensions for database, string handling, exceptions and
pattern matching. "Revised Report on the Programming Language
PLAIN", A. Wasserman, SIGPLAN Notices 6(5):59-80 (May 1981).