plain / plan
adjective unadorned Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass; give me plain glass. John Fowles, 1926-1643 free of extraneous matter; pure If you have love, even plain cold water is sweet. Jung Chang, 1952- clear to the eye or ear As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makes plain the pathway. Anne Hutchinson, 1591-1643 easily understood Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain! Tryon Edwards, 1809-1894 sheer; utter Nothing can substitute for plain hard work. Andre Agassi, 1970- without pretension or elegance; ordinary My manner of living is plain. George Washington, 1732-1799 of food, not highly seasoned or rich Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Joseph Addison, 1672-1719 flat; level It’s not always plain sailing…especially when you’re flying. Brendan Rodgers, 1973- common There’s absolutely no limit to what plain, ordinary, working people can accomplish if they’re given the opportunity and encouragement to do their best. Sam Walton, 1918-1992 lacking beauty A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain. Scott Fitzgerald, 1896-1940 noun an area of level or treeless land If you don’t scale the mountain, you can’t view the plain. Chinese Proverb adverb simply and clearly There will be days when you feel defeated, exhausted, and plain old beat-up by life’s whiplash. Sheri L. Dew, 1953- plane / plān noun a flat, level surface Painting does what we cannot do – it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane. Chuck Jones, 1912-2002 a surface on which any two points form a line completely on that surface We can in fact first place the beam of rays of moving positive atomic ions in a plane perpendicular to the axis in which we see the spectral lines emitted by them. Johannes Stark, 1874-1957 a level of consciousness There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there. Albert Einstein, 1879-1955 a shortened form of the word ‘airplane’ Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice. Shana Alexander, 1925-2005 a tool for smoothing a wood surface Hand planes come in a bewildering variety of sizes. popularwoodworking.com verb to make smooth; to level Each plank he planed, each nail he drove, each thing he made molded him. from ‘The God of Small Things’ by Arundhati Roy, 1961-