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Meaning of "plain sailing" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PLAIN SAILING

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PLAIN SAILING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Plain sailing is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PLAIN SAILING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of plain sailing in the English dictionary

The definition of plain sailing in the dictionary is smooth or easy progress.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PLAIN SAILING

plain
plain chocolate
plain clothes
plain flour
plain language
Plain of Jezreel
Plain of Sharon
plain speaking
plain text
plain turkey
plain yoghurt
plain-clothes
plain-laid
plain-spoken
plainant
plainchant
plainclothesman
plainclothesmen
plainful
plainish

WORDS THAT END LIKE PLAIN SAILING

ailing
boiling
calling
ceiling
failing
filing
mailing
parasailing
piling
prevailing
profiling
railing
retailing
sailing
smiling
tailing
tiling
trailing
unveiling
veiling
wailing

Synonyms and antonyms of plain sailing in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «plain sailing» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PLAIN SAILING

Find out the translation of plain sailing to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of plain sailing from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «plain sailing» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

一帆风顺
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

coser y cantar
570 millions of speakers

English

plain sailing
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सादे नौकायन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الإبحار عادي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

гладко
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

vento em popa
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

প্লেইন পালতোলা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

voile plaine
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pelayaran biasa
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

glatt
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

順風満帆
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

일반 항해
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pelayaran kosong
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự vươn buồm thẳng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

எளிய படகோட்டம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

साधा समुद्रपर्यटन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Düz yelken
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

vento in poppa
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

bajce
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

гладко
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

navigatie simplu
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παιχνιδάκι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

klopdisselboom
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

vind i seglen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

plain sailing
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of plain sailing

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PLAIN SAILING»

The term «plain sailing» is regularly used and occupies the 80.165 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PLAIN SAILING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about plain sailing

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2 QUOTES WITH «PLAIN SAILING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word plain sailing.
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Hugh Dancy
I think becoming an actor because it's a ridiculously insecure profession to go into. I feel very comfortable but very lucky. I think any time that you imagine that it's plain sailing for hereon in, then you're kidding yourself.
2
Amelia Earhart
Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PLAIN SAILING»

Discover the use of plain sailing in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to plain sailing and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Plain Sailing: A Sail-Trim Manual for New Sailors
By focusing on “wind awareness,” Plain Sailing will help all sailors better understand the principles and practice of sail trim—how to adjust sails so they interact most efficiently with the wind.
Dallas Murphy, 2010
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Navigation; Or, The Art of Sailing Upon the Sea: Containing ...
Containing a Demonstration of the Fundamental Principles of this Art. Together with All the Practical Rules of Computing a Ship's Way, Both by Plain Sailing, Mercator, and Middle Latitude, Founded Upon the Foregoing Principles. With Many ...
William Emerson, 1764
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A Collection of Confusible Phrases
Once we've fixed the computer it will be plain sailing. plane sailing (Nautical) the calculation of a ship's place in its course as if the earth were flat instead of spherical: In plane-sailing, the principal terms made use of are the course, distance, ...
Yuri Dolgopolov, 2004
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It Wasn't All Plain Sailing
It Wasn't All Plain Sailing charts Chris Hough's nautical career, beginning as an eight-year-old running around the tin shed that was the local yacht club and building his first yacht at ten.
Chris Hough, 2009
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The Plain Sailing Cook Book; a Collection of Simple Recipes ...
There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.
Susanna Shanklin Browne, 2010
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The Little Book of Clichés
'Plain sailing' first appeared in print in Adam Martindale's A Collection of Letters fior Improvement Qf Husbandry and Trade, (1683): 'A token for ship boys, plain— sailing made more plain and short than usually, in three particular methods.
Alison Westwood
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Contemporary Ergonomics 2005: Proceedings of the ...
... place between 1 8th November to 2nd December 2003 on a mini-bulker. Bulkers are a versatile class of ship •••PP Figure 2. View from the bow looking towards the It's not all plain sailing Port turn-arounds and seafarers' fatigue: A case study.
Philip D. Bust, Paul T. McCabe, 2005
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The Doctrine of Plain and Spherical Trigonometry
By Case I. of Plain-Sailing, find the Difference of Latitude and Departure from the Meridian, for all the Courses and Distances severally ; thus in the first of them there is given the Course SW £S, that is 3 Points from the Meridian, and the ...
William Hawney, 1725
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The Rudiments of Navigation: Demonstrated and Illustrated in ...
The Resolution of the Six Cases of Plain Sailing. As these will be so many right angled triangles, we shall reser to the fix cafes in trigonometry for their construction ; and here only remark, that, as the angle is given in points of the compass, it, ...
Mungo Murray, 1760
10
Plain Sailing: How to Sail Dinghies and Catamarans
Plain Sailing is an essential guide for young sailors and beginners, or as an ideal refresher and reference guide to more experienced sailors.
Jeremy Evans, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PLAIN SAILING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term plain sailing is used in the context of the following news items.
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Varoufakis reveals cloak and dagger 'Plan B' for Greece, awaits …
"I always told Tsipras that it will not be plain sailing but this is the price you have to pay for liberty," he told the Telegraph . "But when the time ... «Yahoo Finance UK, Jul 15»
2
£27m Strabane lottery winner facing jail over taxi driver assault
But the last two years have not been plain sailing for 'Maggie Millions'. She was reportedly left “hurt and distressed” after being detained under ... «Belfast Telegraph, Jul 15»
3
California hospital starts road to recovery for Berkeley injured
'Not plain sailing'. “There were occasions where the kids were being reported to be doing very, very well,” said a parent of one of the students. «Irish Times, Jul 15»
4
Demolition work starts at Norbar in Banbury
It hasn't been plain sailing for the firm though as the discovery of asbestos in the structure resulted in a one-month delay. Philip Brodey, sales ... «Banbury Guardian, Jul 15»
5
Services continue their charge with fine display
Tom May and Gadd gave Services a solid platform at the start of their reply and it looked plain sailing for the hosts. To their credit the Mariners' ... «Portsmouth News, Jul 15»
6
Sarisbury suffer after failing to convert... Hambledon see winning run …
It looked plain sailing for Sarisbury as their top three batsmen Ricky Rawlins (41), Ryan Covey (53) and Jack Lovett (39) took charge. «Portsmouth News, Jul 15»
7
At the coalface: New hurdles for auto-enrolment advice
Many of the problems faced by the industry on launch of auto-enrolment have now been resolved. So is it all plain sailing or have further issues ... «Professional Adviser, Jul 15»
8
Budding fashion designers get London Fashion week slot
However, it has not been all plain sailing for the fashion designer, after she was left in hospital last year with a hernia, putting all her hard work ... «Enfield Independent, Jul 15»
9
Jeremy Kyle exposed my milkman husband as a love rat - so I …
“Nothing is plain sailing.” The Dadds have been together 13 years after meeting in an online chat room. Soon afterwards Anne-Marie became ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»
10
Michael van Gerwen wins maiden World Matchplay title
From there it was pretty much plain sailing for the world number one, an important break of throw in the 23rd leg opened up a five-leg lead at ... «GiveMeSport, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Plain sailing [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/plain-sailing>. May 2024 ».
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