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sim·ple
(sĭm'pəl) 
adj., -pler, -plest.
adj., -pler, -plest.
- Having or composed of only one thing, element, or part. See synonyms at pure.
- Not involved or complicated; easy: a simple task. See synonyms at easy.
- Being without additions or modifications; mere: a simple "yes" or "no."
- Having little or no ornamentation; not embellished or adorned: a simple dress.
- Not elaborate, elegant, or luxurious. See synonyms at plain.
- Unassuming or unpretentious; not affected.
- Having or manifesting little sense or intelligence.
- Uneducated; ignorant.
- Unworldly or unsophisticated. See synonyms at naive.
- Not guileful or deceitful; sincere.
- Humble or lowly in condition or rank: a simple woodcutter.
- Ordinary or common: a simple head cold.
- Being a fundamental or rudimentary element; basic.
- Not important or significant; trivial.
- Biology. Having no divisions or branches; not compound: a simple leaf; a simple eye or lens.
- Music. Being without figuration or elaboration: a simple tone.
- A single component of a complex, especially one that is unanalyzable.
- A fool; a simpleton.
- A person of humble birth or condition.
- A medicinal plant or the medicine obtained from it.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin simplus and from simplex; see simplex.]
simpleness sim'ple·ness n.
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(SIP for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions) Enhancements that add instant messaging and presence to the SIP protocol. Developed by the SIMPLE working group of the IETF, SIMPLE adds buddy list subscriptions and notifications and instant messaging commands.
SIMPLE has two modes. Session mode, which is the more efficient mode, sets up the call and provides a raft of features including conferencing. Page mode uses no call setup and is more like a short messaging service for delivering one-shot messages and announcements.
The IETF's Instant Messaging and Presence Protocol (IMPP) working group, from which the SIMPLE group was split off, focuses on helping people build gateways to SIMPLE from other IM systems. In 2001, AOL said it would support SIMPLE, but subsequently abandoned its plans. See SIP.
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simple
adjective
- Free from extraneous elements: absolute, perfect, plain, pure, sheer2, unadulterated, undiluted, unmixed. See clean/dirty.
- Posing no difficulty: easy, effortless, facile, smooth. Informal snap. Idioms: easy as ABC, easy as falling off a log, easy as one-two-three, easy as pie, like taking candy from a baby, nothing to it. See easy/hard.
- Without addition, decoration, or qualification: bald, bare, dry, plain, unadorned, unvarnished. See plain/fancy.
- Not elaborate or showy, as in appearance or style: modest, plain, unassuming, unostentatious, unpretentious. See plain/fancy.
- Having only a limited ability to learn and understand: backward, dull, simple-minded, slow, slow-witted. Informal soft. Offensive feeble-minded, half-witted, retarded, weak-minded. See ability/inability.
- Free from guile, cunning, or deceit: artless, guileless, ingenuous, innocent, naive, natural, unaffected, unsophisticated, unstudied, unworldly. See honest/dishonest.
- Of little distinction: humble, lowly, mean2. See plain/fancy.
noun
- One deficient in judgment and good sense: ass, fool, idiot, imbecile, jackass, mooncalf, moron, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, simpleton, softhead, tomfool. Informal dope, gander, goose. Slang cretin, ding-dong, dip, goof, jerk, nerd, schmo, schmuck, turkey. See ability/inability.
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simple
adj
Definition: childlike, innocent
Antonyms: complex, elaborate, mature, older, sophisticated
adj
Definition: clear, understandable; easy
Antonyms: complex, complicated, convoluted, difficult, exacting, hard, intricate, unclear, unintelligible
adj
Definition: feeble-minded; not intelligent
Antonyms: aware, educated, intelligent, on-the-ball, smart
adj
Definition: uncluttered, natural
Antonyms: cluttered, complex, complicated, decorated, embellished, jumbled, ornate
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This entry contains information applicable to United States law only.
Unmixed; not aggravated or com- pounded.
A simple assault, for example, is one that is not accompanied by any circumstances of aggravation, such as assault with a deadly weapon.
Simple interest is a fixed amount paid in exchange for a sum of money lent. The interest generated on the amount borrowed does not itself earn interest, unlike interest earned where parties agree to compound interest.
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IN BRIEF: Easy, not complicated.
Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American transcendentalist philosopher, essayist and lecturer.
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as in: plain
sign description: One F-hand brushes past the opposite F-hand.
sign description: One F-hand brushes past the opposite F-hand.
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SIMPLE
This article is about the instant messaging protocol. For the computational fluid dynamics algorithm, see SIMPLE algorithm. For the retirement plan, see SIMPLE IRA.
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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 IETF.[1] Like XMPP, and in contrast to the vast majority of IM and presence protocols used by software deployed today, SIMPLE is an open standard.
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Purpose
SIMPLE applies SIP to the problems of:
- registering for presence information and receiving notifications when such events occur, for example when a user logs in or comes back from lunch;
- sending short messages, analogous to SMS or two-way paging;
- managing a session of real-time messages between two or more participants.
Implementations of the SIMPLE based protocols can be found in SIP Softphones and also in SIP Hardphones.
Technical description
Presence
The SIMPLE presence specifications can be broken up into:
- The core protocol machinery. This provides the actual SIP extensions for subscriptions, notifications and publications. RFC 3265 defines the SUBSCRIBE and NOTIFY methods. SUBSCRIBE allows to subscribe to an event on a server, the server responds with NOTIFY whenever the event come up. RFC 3856 defines how to make use of SUBSCRIBE/NOTIFY for presence. Two models are defined: an end-to-end model in which each User Agent handles presence subscriptions itself; and a centralized model. The latter introduces the concept of a presence server; all subscriptions are handled by this server. The message PUBLISH (RFC 3903) allows User Agents to inform the presence server about their subscription states.
- Presence documents. The presence information is coded in XML documents, that are carried in the bodies of the respective SIP messages. RFC 3863 and RFC 4479 describe this procedure, RFC 4480 (RPID), RFC 4481, RFC 4482 (CPID) and various drafts describe contents and formats of the presence documents.
- Privacy, policy and provisioning. If the centralized model is used, the User Agents need a way to define who may subscribe to which amount of their presence information. RFC 4745 and RFC 5025 define a framework for authorization policies controlling access to application-specific data. The XCAP protocol (RFC 4825), carried by HTTP, allows User Agents to communicate their presence rules to a XCAP server, which rules the information exposed by the presence server. RFC 3857 and RFC 3858 define a subscription event "watcher info". User Agents may subscribe to this event to be informed who is subscribing to their presence information.
IM
SIP defines two modes of instant messaging:
- The Page Mode makes use of the SIP method MESSAGE, as defined in RFC 3428. This mode establishes no sessions.
- The Session Mode. The Message Session Relay Protocol (RFC 4975, RFC 4976) is a text-based protocol for exchanging arbitrarily-sized content between users, at any time. An MSRP session is set up by exchanging certain information, such as an MSRP URI, within SIP and SDP signalling.
References
External links
- Rich Presence - A New User Communications Experience Technology White Paper
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Simple
Dansk (Danish)
adj. - enkel, simpel, ligetil, letfattelig, troskyldig
n. - ulærd person, person af ringe herkomst, dumrian
idioms:
- simple fracture ukompliceret brud
- simple interest simpel rente
- Simple Simon dummepeter
Nederlands (Dutch)
eenvoudig, simpel, onnozel, sober, ongekunsteld
Français (French)
adj. - simple, sobre, pur, simplet, simple d'esprit, primaire (forme de vie), simple (temps, phrase)
n. - plante médicinale, simple d'esprit, nigaud, personne de condition modeste
idioms:
- simple fracture fracture simple
- simple interest intérêt simple
- Simple Simon niais, nigaud
Deutsch (German)
adj. - einfach, simpel, schlicht, einfältig
n. - Simpel, Heilpflanze
idioms:
- simple fracture einfacher Bruch
- simple interest Kapitalzins
- Simple Simon Einfaltspinsel
Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - απλός, απέριττος, λιτός, αφελής, εύκολος, μωρόπιστος
n. - φαρμακοβότανο
idioms:
- simple fracture (ιατρ.) απλό κάταγμα
- simple interest (οικον.) απλός τόκος
- Simple Simon (καθομ.) αφελής, εύπιστος άνθρωπος
Italiano (Italian)
semplice, sobrio
idioms:
- simple fracture frattura semplice
- simple interest interesse semplice
- Simple Simon sempliciotto
Português (Portuguese)
adj. - simples, elementar, humilde, autêntico, simplório
n. - simplório (m), indivíduo (m) ingênuo
idioms:
- simple fracture fratura (f) simples
- simple interest juros (m pl) simples
- Simple Simon pateta (m)
Русский (Russian)
простой, нетрудный, несоставной, неразложимый, незатейливый, простодушный, недалекий, рядовой, очевидный, простой люд, простой человек, бедняк, простак, составная часть
idioms:
- simple fracture простой перелом
- simple interest простые проценты
- Simple Simon простак
Español (Spanish)
adj. - simple, sencillo, sobrio, natural, fácil
n. - simple, simplón, bobo, persona de humilde cuna o condición
idioms:
- simple fracture fractura simple
- simple interest interés simple
- Simple Simon bobo, simplón
Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - enkel, lätt, osammansatt, simpel, okomplicerad, konstlös, anspråkslös, troskyldig, naiv, ren
n. - dumbom, tokstolle, person av enkel härkomst
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
简单的, 简明的, 简易的, 天真的, 单纯的, 朴实的, 坦率的, 善良的, 单一体, 智能低下者, 笨蛋, 单一成分的食品, 愚蠢的行为
idioms:
- simple fracture 单纯骨折
- simple interest 单利
- Simple Simon 傻瓜, 呆子
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 簡單的, 簡明的, 簡易的, 天真的, 單純的, 樸實的, 坦率的, 善良的
n. - 單一體, 智慧低下者, 笨蛋, 單一成分的食品, 愚蠢的行為
idioms:
- simple fracture 單純骨折
- simple interest 單利
- Simple Simon 傻瓜, 呆子
한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 간결한, 단순한, 멍청한
n. - 약용 식물, 단순한 사람, 천민
日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 単純な, 簡単な, わかりやすい, 質素な, 自然で真っすぐな, もったいぶらない, 純真な, 愚かな, 分割できない, 馬鹿な
idioms:
- simple fracture 単純骨折
- simple interest 単利
- Simple Simon まぬけのサイモン
العربيه (Arabic)
(صفه) عادي, غير مركب, بسيط (الاسم) شخص جاهل, شخص وضيع ألمولد
עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - פשוט, רגיל, ישר, תם
n. - טיפש, פתי, עשב מרפא
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