simple
IPA: sˈɪmpʌɫ
noun
- (pharmacology) A herbal preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.
- (obsolete, by extension) A physician.
- (logic) A simple or atomic proposition.
- (obsolete) Something not mixed or compounded.
- (weaving) A drawloom.
- (weaving) Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.
- (Roman Catholicism) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To gather simples, i.e. medicinal herbs.
adjective
- Uncomplicated; lacking complexity; taken by itself, with nothing added.
- Easy; not difficult.
- Without ornamentation; plain.
- Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.
- Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.
- (archaic) Trivial; insignificant.
- (now colloquial, euphemistic) Feeble-minded; foolish.
- (heading, technical) Structurally uncomplicated.
- (chemistry, pharmacology) Consisting of one single substance; uncompounded.
- (mathematics) Of a group: having no normal subgroup.
- (botany) Not compound, but possibly lobed.
- Using steam only once in its cylinders, in contrast to a compound engine, where steam is used more than once in high-pressure and low-pressure cylinders. (of a steam engine)
- (zoology) Consisting of a single individual or zooid; not compound.
- (mineralogy) Homogenous.
- (obsolete) Mere; not other than; being only.
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Examples of "simple" in Sentences
- It is not simple to calibrate.
- It's prattle, plain, and simple.
- It is the simple shape of a semicircle.
- It's the syllogism of the simple minded.
- It was easy to blow and the fingering was simple.
- The photos are clear, simple, and not at all prurient.
- This has easy maintenance and simple access for the uninitiated.
- Velu is simple minded, takes life easy and works for a moneylender.
- Both main facades are of simple, clear design devoid of ostentation.
- I fear, though, Nigel and I have very different interpretations of the word simple.
- II. i.39 (123,2) [without you were so simple, none else would] None else would _be so simple_.
- There are deeper playing options with plenty of complexity, but the goal was to make the title simple and fun out of the box.
- "And, like a great many other simple but important processes, rare just because it _is so simple_," remarked Maurice, with great justice.
- My arthritic little fingers beg to differ with the term simple, however Husband sprang to the fore and the light house was soon in the tree.
- Having confused physical with linguistic or expressive facts, and observing that, in the order of ideas, the simple precedes the complex, they necessarily ended by thinking that _the smaller_ physical facts were _the more simple_.
- Commerce, III, 4, I, even the simple bankrupt in contradistinction to the fraudulent bankrupt is punished, and every person unable to pay his debts is declared a _simple_ bankrupt, who, among other things, has made excessive household expenses, or lost considerable sums by play etc.
- When I once told a sceptical friend about Miss Florence Cook's séance, and added, triumphantly, "Why, she's a pretty little simple girl of sixteen," that clenched the doubts of this Thomas at once, for he rejoined, "What is there that a pretty little _simple_ girl of sixteen won't do?"
- Thanks for your response, Lexikos, but I think you should have read more carefully / I should have stated in the subject that the function is for pixels that can't be retrieved by PixelGetColor (or GetPixel), but I wanted to keep the title simple / there's no much room (I've edited it now).
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