plain text

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Definitions of plain text words

noun plain text the intelligible original message of a cryptogram, as opposed to the coded or enciphered version. 1
noun plain text computing: uncoded text 1
noun plain text a message set in a directly readable form rather than in coded groups 0

before 1915

One of the 14% newest English words

First recorded in 1915-20; plain1 + text

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exclamation

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 81% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.

Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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