simple

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What is the government's role?This is pretty simple.

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any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of simple gathered in one view.

noun

any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties

noun

a person lacking intelligence or common sense

adjective

having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved; "a simple problem"; "simple mechanisms"; "a simple design"; "a simple substance"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for simple.

noun

any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties

noun

a person lacking intelligence or common sense

adjective

having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved; "a simple problem"; "simple mechanisms"; "a simple design"; "a simple substance"

adjective

easy and not involved or complicated; "an elementary problem in statistics"; "elementary, my dear Watson"; "a simple game"; "found an uncomplicated solution to the problem"

adjective

apart from anything else; without additions or modifications; "only the bare facts"; "shocked by the mere idea"; "the simple passage of time was enough"; "the simple truth"

adjective

exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity; "childlike trust"; "dewy-eyed innocence"; "listened in round-eyed wonder"

See also: childlike, wide-eyed, round-eyed, dewy-eyed

adjective

lacking mental capacity and subtlety

adjective

(botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions

adjective

unornamented; "a simple country schoolhouse"; "her black dress--simple to austerity"

Example sentences

What is the government's role?This is pretty simple.

It is, pure and simple, a piracy site full of pirated material.

What used to be one simple input field is now a whole page with checkboxes you have to check and sub-objects you have to define.

Our answer to \nthe question of what police must do before searching a cell \nphone seized incident to an arrest is accordingly simple— \nget a warrant.

This situation is actually very simple, don't let it feel overcomplicated:Tell them you need an actual salary and actual health insurance in the next 30 days.

He's experienced, very much down to business, he cuts through the crap and through technical fads, and currently ensures that we're building the most lean and simple backend that I've ever seen.

It was a little bit challenging, but then I wouldn't have to waste the time of writing it out, and I wasn't handicapped like all of those suckers who had to go through the motions no matter how simple the problem was.

It should be used in conjunction with a multi-faceted interviewing approach that involves testing fundamentals, the ability to construct a relatively simple algorithm, the issues of working on a team and on a production code base and systems design.- the problem with simply talking about "real world" code, as the author suggests, is you're no longer finding a good engineer, you're finding someone you like, someone who thinks like you.

Some of these words, like "measure" or "continuous" make some intuitive sense, but how can "measure" be "continuous" with respect to some other measure, and what the hell is Lebesgue measure anyway?Now, if you're a mathematician, you know that Lebesgue measure in simple cases is just a natural notion of area or volume, but you also know that it's very useful to be able to measure much more complicated sets than just rectangles, polyhedrals, balls, and other similar regular shapes.