peck vs plain
plain vs peckpeck and plain both are nouns.
peck is not an adjective while plain is an adjective.
peck and plain both are verbs.
peck is not an adverb while plain is an adverb.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| peck | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| plain | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
As verbs,
plain is a hypernym of
peck; that is, plain is a
word with a broader meaning than peck:
- peck: bother persistently with trivial complaints
- plain: express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness
| peck (noun) | plain (noun) |
|---|---|
| a light kiss | a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the lefthand side |
| bite by a bird | extensive tract of level open land |
| (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | |
| a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches | |
| a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons |
| peck (adjective) | plain (adjective) |
|---|---|
| not elaborate or elaborated; simple | |
| lacking patterns especially in color | |
| free from any effort to soften to disguise | |
| clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment | |
| not mixed with extraneous elements | |
| lacking embellishment or ornamentation | |
| lacking in physical beauty or proportion |
| peck (verb) | plain (verb) |
|---|---|
| bother persistently with trivial complaints | express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness |
| eat by pecking at, like a bird | |
| eat like a bird | |
| kiss lightly | |
| hit lightly with a picking motion |
| peck (adverb) | plain (adverb) |
|---|---|
| unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly') |
Words related to "peck"
- British capacity unit
- Imperial capacity unit
- United States dry unit
- batch
- beak
- bite
- bushel
- buss
- chomp
- complain
- deal
- deluge
- dry quart
- eat
- flock
- flood
- good deal
- great deal
- hatful
- haymow
- heap
- hen-peck
- inundation
- kick
- kiss
- kvetch
- large indefinite amount
- large indefinite quantity
- lot
- mass
- mess
- mickle
- mint
- mountain
- muckle
- nag
- osculate
- osculation
- passel
- peck at
- pecker
- pick
- pick at
- pick up
- pile
- plain
- plenty
- pot
- quart
- quetch
- quite a little
- raft
- sight
- slew
- smack
- snog
- sound off
- spate
- stack
- strike
- tidy sum
- torrent
- wad
Words related to "plain"
- Nullarbor Plain
- Olympia
- Serengeti
- Serengeti Plain
- apparent
- apparently
- austere
- backbite
- bare
- beef
- bellyache
- bemoan
- bewail
- bitch
- bleat
- champaign
- chaste
- colloquialism
- complain
- crab
- croak
- deplore
- depreciation
- derogation
- direct
- disparagement
- dry
- dry land
- earth
- evident
- evidently
- fancy
- featureless
- field
- flat
- flood plain
- floodplain
- gnarl
- gripe
- grizzle
- grouch
- ground
- grouse
- grumble
- hen-peck
- holler
- homely
- inelaborate
- inveigh
- kick
- knit
- knit stitch
- knitting stitch
- kvetch
- lament
- land
- literal
- llano
- manifest
- manifestly
- mere
- moor
- moorland
- murmur
- mutter
- nag
- obvious
- obviously
- palpable
- patent
- patently
- patterned
- peck
- peneplain
- peneplane
- plain stitch
- plainly
- plainness
- protest
- pure
- quetch
- rail
- repine
- report
- scold
- severe
- sheer
- simple
- snowfield
- solid ground
- solid-colored
- solid-coloured
- sound off
- spare
- squawk
- stark
- steppe
- stern
- tailored
- terra firma
- trim
- tundra
- unadorned
- unattractive
- undecorated
- unelaborate
- unembellished
- unmingled
- unmistakable
- unmixed
- unornamented
- unpatterned
- unpretentious
- unrhetorical
- unvarnished
- vanilla
- whine
- yammer
- yawp
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