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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
simple
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a primitive/simple creature (=one with only a few cells)
▪ primitive creatures like bacteria
a simple calculation
▪ A simple calculation will show that these figures are incorrect.
a simple ceremony
▪ The gymnasium was opened in a simple ceremony on 26th May.
a simple concept
▪ Cause and effect is a fairly simple concept.
a simple device
▪ He invented a simple device for chopping onions.
a simple lifestyle (=in which you do not have too many possessions or modern machines)
▪ He admired the simple lifestyle of the islanders.
a simple majority (=a majority that has been won by most of the votes)
▪ A simple majority of the people at the meeting were in favour of the changes.
a simple meal
▪ a simple meal of soup and bread
a simple melody
▪ I like songs with a simple melody.
a simple misunderstanding (=one that is not serious and is easy to correct)
▪ It was a simple misunderstanding: I thought the meeting was on Wednesday, not Thursday.
a simple notion
▪ You cannot rate the project according to a simple notion of ‘value for money’: there are too many factors involved.
a simple precaution
▪ You can easily reduce the risk of theft by taking a few simple precautions.
a simple question (=one that is easy to answer)
▪ All you have to do is answer the three simple questions below.
a simple reason (=one that is easy to understand)
▪ I hate mobile phones, for the simple reason that it is now impossible to get away from them.
a simple technique
▪ It is amazing what a difference these simple techniques can make.
a simple test
▪ Your doctor can give you a simple blood test to check for anaemia.
a simple tip
▪ He has some simple tips for saving money when you're at the supermarket.
a simple/easy matter (=something that is easy to do)
▪ Putting together the bookcases is a fairly simple matter.
a simple/easy solution
▪ There is no easy solution to this problem.
by the simple expedient of
▪ Moore escaped by the simple expedient of lying down in a clump of grass.
easy/difficult/simple etc to use
▪ Drop-down menus make the program very easy to use.
happy/sensitive/brave/simple etc soul
▪ He is really quite a sensitive soul.
have a healthy/simple etc lifestyle
▪ We had very different lifestyles.
lead a healthy/simple etc lifestyle (=live in a particular way)
▪ You can change your eating habits and lead a healthier lifestyle.
live a healthy/simple etc lifestyle
▪ I had enough money to live a lavish lifestyle.
plain/simple (=without anything added or without decoration)
▪ He liked eating simple food, nothing spicy.
simple fracture
simple interest
simple
▪ He was a man of simple tastes (= he liked simple things)
simple
▪ The latest model of the car has a much simpler design.
simple
▪ The rules of the game are quite simple.
simple
▪ The children help with simple tasks like carrying in water or logs for the fire.
simple/plain/basic/sheer common sense (=very obviously sensible)
▪ Locking your doors at night is simple common sense.
the simple/easy answer
▪ There are a lot of problems and no simple answers.
the simple/plain/naked truth (=the truth, with nothing added, left out, or hidden)
▪ The simple truth is that there isn’t enough money to pay for it.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ If only it were as simple for military plutonium.
▪ It is as simple as that.
▪ Thus, removing Windows software is not as simple as yanking out that directory and the files it contains.
▪ But then, it's not as simple as that.
▪ Millions of vacationing seniors have discovered the answer to stress-free, economical travel is as simple as hopping on a bus.
▪ But the situation isn't as simple as that.
fairly
▪ Some of the boats chiselled into the rocks are fairly simple.
▪ Before, the choices were fairly simple: sheer nude or basic black.
▪ Voice over It's fairly simple to spot the difference between the real thing and a fake.
▪ It was fairly simple to devise an educational jump-start for her.
▪ Although the optimum phase resistance can be calculated, in practice it is a fairly simple matter to determine the optimum experimentally.
▪ Paul Collins's needs are fairly simple: paint and canvas.
▪ The topological structure of the decision space can be quite complicated in even a fairly simple program.
▪ It also would be fairly simple to operate, making it more likely that parents would use it.
much
▪ It was much simpler than that.
▪ As we will see shortly, it is much simpler to assure ourselves of gains from trade if it is true.
▪ It was much simpler four years ago.
▪ It is much simpler and neater-though not necessarily cheaper-simply to start with raw sugar.
▪ There is a much simpler explanation of the animal's behaviour.
▪ I think the plot is much simpler.
▪ Fortunately, there are animals in which the process is not only much simpler but can be observed directly.
▪ Vivian may as well lose her wits; only something much simpler can help her.
quite
▪ It was quite simple really - she wouldn't speak to him.
▪ The choice of which method to use is actually quite simple.
▪ Most ferreters today would use one of these locators and the procedure is quite simple.
▪ The reason for this is quite simple.
▪ But what it really means is quite simple.
▪ Example B is still quite simple.
▪ The intention is quite simple: to identify and match likely responders and users to the credit offering.
relatively
▪ Earlier releases of the software used two relatively simple ways to provide fault tolerance.
▪ This scheme often works because users tend to choose relatively simple or familiar words as passwords.
▪ What would the historian want from the relatively simple records of the water authority?
▪ A schematic version of this relatively simple circuit is shown in Figure 9.2.
▪ Before the landing, geologists thought Mars' crust was relatively simple, made up mostly of ordinary basaltic lava rock.
▪ Although the concept of fund accounting is relatively simple, specific applications of it can be difficult to understand.
▪ Although the puzzles are enjoyable, they are relatively simple to figure out, making the game short work for experienced gamers.
so
▪ Fishbase is so simple to operate that no documentation file has been considered necessary.
▪ Something so simple and yet so complicated.
▪ Things were never so simple and clear again.
▪ It was all so simple, I nearly gagged for joy when this idea came to me.
▪ It had all been so simple until now.
▪ I bought them on the principle that anything so simple, however modest, would be unlikely to go wrong.
▪ The cells of viruses are so simple, they hardly qualify as cells at all.
▪ We are so simple sometimes, and fortified so strangely.
that
▪ Yet things are evidently not that simple.
▪ Unfortunately, however, things are not quite that simple.
▪ But of course it wasn't that simple.
▪ But it isn't quite that simple.
▪ Life just isn't that simple.
▪ It's that simple. let's go back to my hotel and fool around.
very
▪ A modern multi-storey office block is a very simple design.
▪ There are three very simple but profound advantages to a more casual style of dressing.
▪ They take the user from very simple counting and progress to adding two numbers up to a total of 20.
▪ These women ask for little and lead very simple lives.
▪ Payback Payback is a very simple and useful method, and hence it is popular.
▪ Now these were very simple men at least in our terms of culture, learning, and civilization.
▪ I was asked particularly to notice the very simple but effective apparatus for raising the coaches.
▪ Yet it is very simple to prepare and offers immense satisfaction for those who follow some simple guidelines.
■ NOUN
answer
▪ There is a short and simple answer to this question.
▪ We persist in grasping at neat, simple answers, when we should be questioning everything.
▪ The simple answer is, they do not.
▪ There is, unfortunately, no simple answer, for our knowledge on the subject will always be limited.
▪ The simple answer is - yes.
▪ Absent a definitively superior or ideal network architecture, there is no simple answer.
▪ This depends entirely on you and your children and there is no simple answer.
▪ The simple answer, of course, is safety and quality of life.
case
▪ It would be nice if the two approaches met, but I fear this is true only in the simplest cases.
▪ In the simple case of Tommy Termite, financial statements will be prepared directly from the general ledger accounts.
▪ The finite element and dynamic stiffness methods are introduced and exemplified in simple cases.
▪ In the simplest case, you may not be sure whether you should continue to turn up for work or not.
▪ Faldo's disqualification was a simple case to administer.
▪ Instead it's just a simple case of steering into the slides and normal service is resumed.
▪ We now proceed to examine some simple cases.
▪ Consider a simple case with only two molecules.
example
▪ In this simple example, there is an obvious resolution to the dilemma.
▪ One simple example of the process would be estimating the height of a child by looking at the height of the parents.
▪ Let us begin with the simplest example and argue from that.
▪ Smith liked to use simple examples.
▪ Here is a simple example of the complexity at issue.
▪ A simple example will make the concept clearer.
▪ Clause 7.4 of Precedent 3 is a simple example of such a clause.
expedient
▪ Now down into crawler gear he pushes on, finding regular protection by the simple expedient of removing most of the ice!
▪ They divined the contents of sealed envelopes by the simple expedient of opening the staples at the other end of the envelope.
▪ So he adopted the simple expedient of not opening it until it was beyond his power to act on it.
▪ The Pearl has a 6,500-strong sales force which collects insurance premiums and arranges policies by the simple expedient of house-to-house calls.
▪ Billy Bragg has the unusual gift of making other people's songs his own by the simple expedient of singing them.
▪ And moral outrage at the use of simple expedients can still run high.
fact
▪ The simple fact of the matter is this: Sparrows love cars.
▪ That simple fact, which would appear to be self- evident, keeps surprising people.
▪ This simple fact deprives you of most of the information you would normally have about the other person.
▪ Intelligent water policies can be designed, but they must take into account the simple fact that this a desert.
▪ The extent to which the Samoan squad has been turned upside down in recent seasons is illustrated by one simple fact.
▪ I wanted to find the simple facts of her life.
▪ One of his linguistics professors, a man named Samuel Goldstein, had helped him understand the consequences of that simple fact.
▪ This simple fact was studiously ignored by ill-disposed critics, then and since.
form
▪ It is more important in simpler forms of learning such as skill learning when it usually means repetition.
▪ Couples with no need to itemize deductions can use the 1040A, another relatively simple form.
▪ White motion gives the simplest form of scaling noise.
▪ At first glance, his trademark paintings and sculptures seem to be the simplest form of abstraction.
▪ This is a simple form of learning.
▪ This forced on builders a simple form of Gothic architecture.
▪ We will also look at a simple form of self-massage to help banish cellulite.
life
▪ How simple life would be, if it was as simple as we think!
▪ The illustrations are very engaging, where you can show your child the beauty of living a simple life.
▪ He believed in the simple life and slept on a mattress on the floor.
▪ A simple life, no one to worry about except yourself. --- Till you go and climb a water tower.
▪ Coming from a group whose aim is the simpler life, such an entry into the market place raises some intriguing questions.
▪ These women ask for little and lead very simple lives.
matter
▪ Although the optimum phase resistance can be calculated, in practice it is a fairly simple matter to determine the optimum experimentally.
▪ Washing her clothes was no simple matter with Hazel there.
▪ As far as specific benefits are concerned, the removal of inequalities based on age would be technically a relatively simple matter.
▪ It is a relatively simple matter to translate the structural possibilities of this model into ideal types of heroic action.
▪ Yet defining capacity in banking is no simple matter.
▪ It was a simple matter for Venus to bring about a meeting between the two.
▪ To most Victorians, truth seemed a simple matter, only confused by people like Pontius Pilate, of conformity to facts.
▪ Beyond that, however labor markets are no longer a simple matter of distinguishing between white and blue collars.
question
▪ You will hear two simple questions.
▪ A simple question first: how do you know you are happy with this arrangement?
▪ Are there any simple questions that can pick out an alcoholic?
▪ A simple question requiring a long and thoughtful answer.
▪ Pupils can continually be encouraged to ask simple questions to make this link.
▪ A larger, more complicated set of questions then came to replace the first simple questions.
reason
▪ For one very simple reason, my friend.
▪ It is going to take off for the simple reason that everybody, with the fundamentalists in the lead, wants change.
▪ It failed for the simple reason that no coherent principles or policies came forward to replace the old ones.
▪ He built it for a very simple reason.
▪ But there was a simpler reason than that: his hunch told him he was not in the mood for it.
▪ Animals with warning colours on average live longer than those without, and there is a simple reason for this.
task
▪ You find yourself doing the strangest things that can only be because you are no longer capable of doing the simplest tasks.
▪ Where keeping house and cooking were not female chores but simple tasks of pleasure and survival.
▪ Handwashing seems such a simple task but in fact is a subject of surprising contention among health professionals.
▪ People must sit in front of these computers constantly, poking and prodding to do even the simplest task.
▪ They may become apathetic, unable to do even the simplest task.
▪ It was no simple task to complete; one workman, thrown into the raging rapids below almost lost his life.
▪ Voeller could not believe his luck and had the simple task of tapping the ball into an empty goal.
▪ Moving a carrier from one coast to another is no simple task, Roulstone said.
things
▪ We like simple things such as lamb and mashed potatoes.
▪ Of course, complicated things consist of lots of simpler things.
▪ Another problem is that the wildlife lobby is divided even over simple things like the future of old farm woodlands.
▪ Four simple things, for example, can be combined in different ways to make twenty-four different complex things.
▪ Why am I moved by such simple things?
▪ Little things, simple things, like a passport with an eagle on the front cover.
▪ Physics is the study of simple things that do not tempt us to invoke design.
▪ They have a hard time learning even the simplest things.
truth
▪ Even so, it took me till I got to my own house to realise the very simple truth.
▪ The simple truths according to Marx and Lenin are now crowded by doubts.
▪ No-one wanted to believe the simple truth.
▪ The simple truth is you don't need to know that much to find your way around.
▪ One of the simplest truths about history is that progress is not linear.
▪ Certainly it misses the simple truth of patience.
▪ John Arlott's armour was his honest thought and simple truth.
▪ The simple truth is companies with large central data processing facilities will still need these unpleasant, draughty, noisy rooms.
way
▪ The simple way to make superb sauces.
▪ It should be explained in a very simple way.
▪ Earlier releases of the software used two relatively simple ways to provide fault tolerance.
▪ There is a simple way of calculating your aerobic walking rate.
▪ This leads to a simple way of stating the amount of distortion: as the ratio of harmonics to fundamental.
▪ It shows us some simple ways in which we can all join the drive for a better environment.
▪ Well, the simplest way, when it's feasible, is by direct observation.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be a different/tricky/simple etc proposition
pure and simple
▪ The motive for the robbery was greed, pure and simple.
▪ A gratuitous promise, pure and simple, remains unenforceable unless given under seal.
▪ But lineage pure and simple was not the only consideration.
▪ But more subtle problems remain-related to sexism, pure and simple.
▪ If they lived in the Middle East they were bad, pure and simple.
▪ The bottom line is in the ledger book, pure and simple.
▪ The first is pure and simple file transfer.
▪ The man wants revenge, pure and simple, and he's working logically through the family, saving Stone until last.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ simple organisms such as bacteria
▪ a simple black dress
▪ Billy was a very simple boy.
▪ Even the simple act of eating dinner together can make an evening special.
▪ He couldn't even answer very simple questions.
▪ His children find European numbering simpler than the Chinese system.
▪ I'm sure there's a perfectly simple explanation.
▪ I like this recipe because it's so simple.
▪ Many vegetarian meals are delicious and simple to prepare.
▪ Milk is cheap now for one simple reason: there's too much of it available.
▪ She drew us a simple map so that we wouldn't get lost.
▪ She liked the building's simple, clean lines.
▪ She wore a simple black dress.
▪ Speak slowly and use simple words so that everyone understands.
▪ The chicken was served with a simple cream sauce.
▪ The meal was simple, but delicious.
▪ The new photocopier is much simpler to use than the one we had before.
▪ The secret of successful dinner parties? Keep it simple.
▪ The tribes of Central New Guinea use very simple tools such as hammers and axes.
▪ There must be a perfectly simple explanation.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In front a simple porch offered a spectacular vista of coconut-fringed beach, lagoon, and open sea beyond.
▪ Only the simpler, uglier land mine has shed more blood.
▪ Remember when packing was a simple exercise?
▪ Salads on the other hand, are simple, satisfying and sizable.
▪ The simple sieves we have been considering so far in this chapter are all examples of single-step selection.
▪ The above equation is the next simplest correction, using a non- unit power of the size attribute.
▪ To the simple call of justice, there are a number of possible objections.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Simple

Simple \Sim"ple\, a. [Compar. Simpler; superl. Simplest.] [F., fr. L. simplus, or simplex, gen. simplicis. The first part of the Latin words is probably akin to E. same, and the sense, one, one and the same; cf. L. semel once, singuli one to each, single. Cg. Single, a., Same, a., and for the last part of the word cf. Double, Complex.]

  1. Single; not complex; not infolded or entangled; uncombined; not compounded; not blended with something else; not complicated; as, a simple substance; a simple idea; a simple sound; a simple machine; a simple problem; simple tasks.

  2. Plain; unadorned; as, simple dress. ``Simple truth.''
    --Spenser. ``His simple story.''
    --Burns.

  3. Mere; not other than; being only.

    A medicine . . . whose simple touch Is powerful to araise King Pepin.
    --Shak.

  4. Not given to artifice, stratagem, or duplicity; undesigning; sincere; true.

    Full many fine men go upon my score, as simple as I stand here, and I trust them.
    --Marston.

    Must thou trust Tradition's simple tongue?
    --Byron.

    To be simple is to be great.
    --Emerson.

  5. Artless in manner; unaffected; unconstrained; natural; inartificial;; straightforward.

    In simple manners all the secret lies.
    --Young.

  6. Direct; clear; intelligible; not abstruse or enigmatical; as, a simple statement; simple language.

  7. Weak in intellect; not wise or sagacious; of but moderate understanding or attainments; hence, foolish; silly. ``You have simple wits.''
    --Shak.

    The simple believeth every word; but the prudent man looketh well to his going.
    --Prov. xiv. 15.

  8. Not luxurious; without much variety; plain; as, a simple diet; a simple way of living.

    Thy simple fare and all thy plain delights.
    --Cowper.

  9. Humble; lowly; undistinguished.

    A simple husbandman in garments gray.
    --Spenser.

    Clergy and laity, male and female, gentle and simple made the fuel of the same fire.
    --Fuller.

  10. (BOt.) Without subdivisions; entire; as, a simple stem; a simple leaf.

  11. (Chem.) Not capable of being decomposed into anything more simple or ultimate by any means at present known; elementary; thus, atoms are regarded as simple bodies. Cf. Ultimate, a.

    Note: A simple body is one that has not as yet been decomposed. There are indications that many of our simple elements are still compound bodies, though their actual decomposition into anything simpler may never be accomplished.

  12. (Min.) Homogenous.

  13. (Zo["o]l.) Consisting of a single individual or zooid; as, a simple ascidian; -- opposed to compound.

    Simple contract (Law), any contract, whether verbal or written, which is not of record or under seal.
    --J. W. Smith.
    --Chitty.

    Simple equation (Alg.), an equation containing but one unknown quantity, and that quantity only in the first degree.

    Simple eye (Zo["o]l.), an eye having a single lens; -- opposed to compound eye.

    Simple interest. See under Interest.

    Simple larceny. (Law) See under Larceny.

    Simple obligation (Rom. Law), an obligation which does not depend for its execution upon any event provided for by the parties, or is not to become void on the happening of any such event.
    --Burrill.

    Syn: Single; uncompounded; unmingled; unmixed; mere; uncombined; elementary; plain; artless; sincere; harmless; undesigning; frank; open; unaffected; inartificial; unadorned; credulous; silly; foolish; shallow; unwise.

    Usage: Simple, Silly. One who is simple is sincere, unaffected, and inexperienced in duplicity, -- hence liable to be duped. A silly person is one who is ignorant or weak and also self-confident; hence, one who shows in speech and act a lack of good sense. Simplicity is incompatible with duplicity, artfulness, or vanity, while silliness is consistent with all three. Simplicity denotes lack of knowledge or of guile; silliness denotes want of judgment or right purpose, a defect of character as well as of education.

    I am a simple woman, much too weak To oppose your cunning.
    --Shak.

    He is the companion of the silliest people in their most silly pleasure; he is ready for every impertinent entertainment and diversion.
    --Law.

Simple

Simple \Sim"ple\, v. i. To gather simples, or medicinal plants.

As simpling on the flowery hills she [Circe] strayed.
--Garth.

Simple

Simple \Sim"ple\, n. [F. See Simple, a.]

  1. Something not mixed or compounded. ``Compounded of many simples.''
    --Shak.

  2. (Med.) A medicinal plant; -- so called because each vegetable was supposed to possess its particular virtue, and therefore to constitute a simple remedy.

    What virtue is in this remedy lies in the naked simple itself as it comes over from the Indies.
    --Sir W. Temple.

  3. (Weaving)

    1. A drawloom.

    2. A part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.

  4. (R. C. Ch.) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
simple

c.1200, "free from duplicity, upright, guileless; blameless, innocently harmless," also "ignorant, uneducated; unsophisticated; simple-minded, foolish," from Old French simple (12c.) "plain, decent; friendly, sweet; naive, foolish, stupid," hence "wretched, miserable," from Latin simplus, variant of simplex "simple, uncompounded," literally "onefold" (see simplex). Sense of "free from pride, humble, meek" is mid-13c. As "consisting of only one substance or ingredient" (opposite of composite or compounded) it dates from late 14c.; as "easily done" (opposite of complicated) it dates from late 15c.\n

\nFrom mid-14c. as "unqualified; mere; sheer;" also "clear, straightforward; easily understood." From late 14c. as "single, individual; whole." From late 14c. of clothing, etc., "modest, plain, unadorned," and of food, "plain, not sumptuous." In medicine, of fractures, etc., "lacking complications," late 14c. As a law term, "lacking additional legal stipulations, unlimited," from mid-14c.\n

\nIn Middle English with wider senses than recently, such as "inadequate, insufficient; weak, feeble; mere; few; sad, downcast; mournful; of little value; low in price; impoverished, destitute;" of hair, "straight, not curly." As noun, "an innocent or a guileless person; a humble or modest person" (late 14c.), also "an uncompounded substance." From c.1500 as "ignorant people."

Wiktionary
simple

  1. 1 uncomplicated; taken by itself, with nothing added. 2 Without ornamentation; plain. 3 Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward. 4 undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank. 5 (lb en now rare) trivial; insignificant. 6 (lb en now colloquial) Feeble-minded; foolish. 7 (lb en heading technical) Structurally uncomplicated. 8 # (lb en chemistry) Consisting of one single substance; uncompounded. 9 # (lb en mathematics) Of a group: having no normal subgroup. 10 # (lb en botany) Not compound, but possibly lobed. 11 # (lb en zoology) Consisting of a single individual or zooid; not compound. 12 # (lb en mineralogy) homogenous. 13 (lb en obsolete) Mere; not other than; being only. n. 1 (context medicine English) A preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant. 2 (context obsolete English) A term for a physician, derived from the medicinal term above. 3 (context logic English) A simple or atomic proposition. 4 (context obsolete English) Something not mixed or compounded. 5 (context weaving English) A drawloom. 6 (context weaving English) Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom. 7 (context Roman Catholic English) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble. v

  2. (context transitive intransitive archaic English) To gather simples, ie, medicinal herbs.

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WordNet
simple

  1. n. any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties

  2. a person lacking intelligence or common sense [syn: simpleton]

simple

  1. adj. having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved; "a simple problem"; "simple mechanisms"; "a simple design"; "a simple substance" [ant: complex]

  2. 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" [syn: elementary, uncomplicated, unproblematic]

  3. 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" [syn: bare(a), mere(a), simple(a)]

  4. exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity; "childlike trust"; "dewy-eyed innocence"; "simple courtesy" [syn: childlike, wide-eyed, dewy-eyed]

  5. lacking mental capacity and devoid of subtlety [syn: dim-witted, half-witted, simple-minded]

  6. (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions [syn: unsubdivided] [ant: compound]

  7. not elaborate in style; unornamented; "a simple country schoolhouse"; "her black dress--simple to austerity"

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Wikipedia
SIMPLE (instant messaging protocol)

SIMPLE, the session initiation protocol for instant messaging and presence leveraging extensions, is an instant messaging (IM) and presence protocol suite based on Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) managed by the Internet Engineering Task Force. Contrary to the vast majority of IM and presence protocols used by software deployed today, SIMPLE is an open standard like XMPP.

SiMPLE

SiMPLE (a recursive acronym for SiMPLE Modular Programming Language & Environment) is a programming development system that was created to provide easy programming capabilities for everybody, especially non-professionals.

Simple (philosophy)

In contemporary mereology, a simple is any thing that has no proper parts. Sometimes the term "atom" is used, although in recent years the term "simple" has become the standard.

Simples are to be contrasted with atomless gunk (where something is "gunky" if it is such that every proper part has a further proper part). Necessarily, given the definitions, everything is either composed of simples, gunk or a mixture of the two. Classical mereology is consistent with both the existence of gunk and either finite or infinite simples (see Hodges and Lewis 1968).

Given a mereology containing the null individual, no object other than the null individual would be simple.

Simple (album)

Simple is the debut solo album by Oxford singer-songwriter Andy Yorke, released in 2008.

Simple (bank)

Simple is an American direct bank based in Portland, Oregon. The company provides FDIC-insured checking accounts through a partnership with The Bancorp and is part of the STAR network for surcharge-free access to around 55,000 ATMs. Since 2014, Simple has been part of the BBVA Group, one of the largest banks in Europe.

SIMPLE (military communications protocol)

The Standard Interface for Multiple Platform Link Evaluation (SIMPLE) is a military communications protocol defined in NATO's Standardization Agreement STANAG 5602.

Simple (abstract algebra)

In mathematics, the term simple is used to describe an algebraic structure which in some sense cannot be divided by a smaller structure of the same type. Put another way, an algebraic structure is simple if the kernel of every homomorphism is either the whole structure or a single element. Some examples are:

  • A group is called a simple group if it does not contain a nontrivial proper normal subgroup.
  • A ring is called a simple ring if it does not contain a nontrivial two sided ideal.
  • A module is called a simple module if it does not contain a nontrivial submodule.
  • An algebra is called a simple algebra if it does not contain a nontrivial two sided ideal.

The general pattern is that the structure admits no non-trivial congruence relations.

The term is used differently in semigroup theory. A semigroup is said to be simple if it has no nontrivial ideals, or equivalently, if Green's relation J is the universal relation. Not every congruence on a semigroup is associated with an ideal, so a simple semigroup may have nontrivial congruences. A semigroup with no nontrivial congruences is called congruence simple.

SIMPLE (dark matter experiment)

SIMPLE (Superheated Instrument for Massive ParticLe Experiments) is an experiment search for direct evidence of dark matter. It is located in a 61 m cavern at the 500 level of the Laboratoire Souterrain à Bas Bruit (LSBB) near Apt in southern France. The experiment is predominantly sensitive to spin-dependent interactions of weakly interacting massive particles (or WIMPs).

SIMPLE is an international collaboration with members from Portugal, France, and the United States.

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Usage examples of "simple".

So they abode a little, and the more part of what talk there was came from the Lady, and she was chiefly asking Ralph of his home in Upmeads, and his brethren and kindred, and he told her all openly, and hid naught, while her voice ravished his very soul from him, and it seemed strange to him, that such an one should hold him in talk concerning these simple matters and familiar haps, and look on him so kindly and simply.

Roman catholic apostolic church, conserved in Calcata, were deserving of simple hyperduly or of the fourth degree of latria accorded to the abscission of such divine excrescences as hair and toenails.

There were numerous longer forms of the acronym that indicated the general or specific reason for the restriction, but the simple version often was used as shorthand.

He floated to his feet and faced his first challenge, a simple detection spell that would alert the caster if anyone, in any form, crossed the adamantine bridge.

Parker even more when she bade me a simple adieu, and did not seek to impress upon me the virtues of this or that plow, the rakes and tines and blades of which were pendant from the ceiling in a Damoclean display.

The teams are all looking at variants on a simple, cheap technique that involves putting antigen genes into harmless bacteria that will double as delivery vehicles and adjuvants, then freeze-drying them into spores that can survive tropical heat without refrigeration.

Bay had been marrying Jonas Harper for the silks and silver his money could buy her, she could be so obviously happy with the few simple things he provided in this adobe house.

But a simpler interpretation of the data suggests it to have been a purely physical effect caused by DDT particles adsorbing to the outside surfaces of the algae and cutting down the light supply.

The reason was simple: Radio is the most visual medium available to advertisers since radio commercials have the best opportunity to create vivid imagery in the minds of the consumer.

In fact, many of my clients have removed the 24hour emergency message from their yellow page advertising, opting for simpler, well-positioned messages.

The mind of the Humpty-Dumpty was what one would imagine the mind of a dog to be: a simple, affectless reflection of the passing scene.

With the two simple elements of darkness and fire, we create a sensation of pain, which may be aggravated to an infinite degree by the idea of endless duration.

Not getting enough sleep may be one of the reasons you can get addicted to many of those simple carbohydrates and sugars, as well as the aging fats that are impostors to real food.

If it were a case of agnosia, the patient would now be seeing what he had always seen, that is to say, there would have been no diminution of his visual powers, his brain would simply have been incapable of recognising a chair wherever there happened to be a chair, in other words, he would continue to react correctly to the luminous stimuli leading to the optic nerve, but, to use simple terms within the grasp of the layman, he would have lost the capacity to know what he knew and, moreover, to express it.

The Agrimony is a Simple well known to all country folk, and abundant throughout England in the fields and woods, as a popular domestic medicinal herb.