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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