simple
Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/ˈsɪm.pəl/]
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Senses
1. simple (adj) — sense 1
Definition: Uncomplicated; lacking complexity; taken by itself, with nothing added.
Example: We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic?
Concept: Наивность
2. simple (adj) — sense 2
Definition: Easy; not difficult.
Example: There is no simple way to define precisely a complex arrangement of parts, however homely the object may appear to be.
3. simple (adj) — sense 3
Definition: Without ornamentation; plain.
4. simple (noun) — sense 4
Definition: A herbal preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.
Example: Dere is some simples in my closet, dat I vill not for the varld I shall leave behind.
5. simple (noun) — sense 5
Definition: A physician.
6. simple (noun) — sense 6
Definition: A simple or atomic proposition.
Example: Peter van Inwagen, for example, believes that there are no ordinary objects, no chairs or shirts or shoes. Right here there are just some simples — atoms or whatever — arranged shoe-wise.
7. simple (verb) — sense 7
Definition: To gather simples, i.e. medicinal herbs.
Structure of the word
Roots:Connections
Polarities
Wisdom ↔ Folly — concept «Наивность»
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