Plane meaning
A flat or level surface.
noun
A level of development, existence, or achievement.
Scholarship on a high plane.
noun
The definition of a plane is a woodworking tool that removes wood to create a flat surface, or the shortened form of the word airplane.
An example of a plane is the tool used to smooth the sides of doors to make them close more easily.
An example of a plane is an airplane that flys from New York to San Francisco.
noun
A surface containing all the straight lines that connect any two points on it.
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Flat; level; even.
adjective
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To smooth or finish with a plane.
Planed the door.
verb
The plane tree.
noun
To plane is to make smooth or even.
An example of to plane is to use a tool to scrape long strips of wood off the edge of a door to make it fit better in the doorway.
verb
An airplane or hydroplane.
noun
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A supporting surface of an airplane; an airfoil or wing.
noun
Of or being a figure lying in a plane.
A plane curve.
adjective
Flat; level.
adjective
A carpenter's tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing and leveling wood.
noun
A trowel-shaped tool for smoothing the surface of clay, sand, or plaster in a mold.
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To remove with a plane.
Plane off the rough edges on a board.
verb
To work with a plane.
verb
Any of a genus (Platanus) of trees of the plane-tree family having maplelike leaves, spherical dry fruits, and bark that sheds in large patches; sycamore.
noun
A surface that wholly contains every straight line joining any two points lying in it.
noun
A flat, level, or even surface.
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A level of development, achievement, existence, etc.
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Any airfoil; esp., a wing of an airplane.
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A carpenter's tool for shaving a wood surface in order to make it smooth, level, etc.
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To make smooth or level with or as with a plane.
verb
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To remove with or as with a plane.
verb
To work with a plane.
verb
To do the work of a plane.
verb
To soar or glide.
verb
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To travel by airplane.
verb
A two-dimensional surface, any two of whose points can be joined by a straight line that lies entirely in the surface.
noun
Lying in a plane.
A plane curve.
adjective
A level or flat surface.
noun
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(geometry) A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane).
noun
A level of existence or development. (eg, astral plane)
noun
A roughly flat, thin, often moveable structure used to create lateral force by the flow of air or water over its surface, found on aircraft, submarines, etc.
noun
(anatomy) An imaginary plane which divides the body into two portions.
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To rise partly out of the water, as a hydroplane does at high speeds.
verb
To soar or glide.
verb
To travel by airplane.
verb
Origin of plane
- Middle English from Old French from Late Latin plāna from plānāre to plane from plānus flat pelə-2 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Middle English from Old French from Latin platanus from Greek platanos perhaps from platus broad plat- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Latin plānum flat surface from neuter of plānus flat pelə-2 in Indo-European roots N., sense 4, short for aeroplane
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Middle English planen to glide, soar from Old French planer from plain flat, level plain
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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- From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French, from Late Latin plana (“planing tool"), from plano (“to level")
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- Abbreviated from aeroplane.
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