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A woodworker planing a piece of wood.

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.
1. An example of a plane is the tool used to smooth the sides of doors to make them close more easily.
2. An example of a plane is an airplane that flys from New York to San Francisco.

verb

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.

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plane

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

Origin of plane

Middle English from Middle French plasne from Classical Latin platanus from Classical Greek platanos from platys, broad (see platy-): from its broad leaves

flat; level; even
Math.
1. lying on a surface that is a plane
2. of such surfaces

Origin of plane

Classical Latin planus: see plain

a surface that wholly contains every straight line joining any two points lying in it
a flat, level, or even surface
a level of development, achievement, existence, etc.
airplane
any airfoil; esp., a wing of an airplane

Origin of plane

L planum

a carpenter's tool for shaving a wood surface in order to make it smooth, level, etc.

Origin of plane

Old French plaine from Late Latin plana from planare, to plane, make level from Classical Latin planus: see plain

transitive verb

planed, plan′ing

to make smooth or level with or as with a plane
to remove with or as with a plane: with off or away

to work with a plane
to do the work of a plane

intransitive verb

planed, plan′ing

to soar or glide
to rise partly out of the water while in motion at high speed, as a hydroplane (sense ) does
to travel by airplane

Origin of plane

French planer from Old French plan, level surface (term used in falconry, in reference to position of bird's wings while soaring) from Late Latin planare, to make level: see plane

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plane

noun

Mathematics A surface containing all the straight lines that connect any two points on it.
A flat or level surface.
A level of development, existence, or achievement: scholarship on a high plane.
An airplane or hydroplane.
A supporting surface of an airplane; an airfoil or wing.

adjective

Mathematics Of or being a figure lying in a plane: a plane curve.
Flat; level. See Synonyms at level.

Origin of plane

Latin plānum flat surface from neuter of plānus flat ; see pelə-² in Indo-European roots.N., sense 4, short for aeroplane

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plane′ness
noun

noun

A carpenter's tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing and leveling wood.
A trowel-shaped tool for smoothing the surface of clay, sand, or plaster in a mold.

verb

planed, plan·ing, planes

verb

transitive

To smooth or finish with a plane: planed the door.
To remove with a plane: plane off the rough edges on a board.

verb

intransitive

To work with a plane.

Origin of plane

Middle English from Old French from Late Latin plāna from plānāre to plane from plānus flat ; see pelə-² in Indo-European roots.

plane2

carpentry plane

intransitive verb

planed, plan·ing, planes

To rise partly out of the water, as a hydroplane does at high speeds.
To soar or glide.
To travel by airplane.

Origin of plane

Middle English planen to glide, soar from Old French planer from plain flat, level ; see plain .

noun

The plane tree.

Origin of plane

Middle English from Old French from Latin platanus from Greek platanos perhaps from platus broad ; see plat- in Indo-European roots.

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Noun

A two-dimensional surface, any two of whose points can be joined by a straight line that lies entirely in the surface.

Adjective

Lying in a plane: a plane curve.

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Adjective

(comparative planer, superlative planest)

Of a surface: flat or level.

Noun

(plural planes)

A level or flat surface.
(geometry) A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane).
A level of existence or development. (eg, astral plane)
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.
(computing, Unicode) Any of a number of designated ranges of sequential code points.
(anatomy) An imaginary plane which divides the body into two portions.

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Origin

From Latin planum (“flat surface"), a noun use of the neuter of planus (“plain"). The word was introduced in the seventeenth century to distinguish the geometrical senses from the other senses of plain.

Noun

(plural planes)

(countable) A tool for smoothing wood by removing thin layers from the surface.

Verb

(third-person singular simple present planes, present participle planing, simple past and past participle planed)

To smooth (wood) with a plane.

Origin

From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French, from Late Latin plana (“planing tool"), from plano (“to level")

Noun

(plural planes)

An airplane; an aeroplane.

Verb

(third-person singular simple present planes, present participle planing, simple past and past participle planed)

(nautical) To move in a way that lifts the bow of a boat out of the water.
To glide or soar.

Origin

Abbreviated from aeroplane.

Noun

(plural planes)

(countable, botany) A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus.
(Northern UK) A sycamore.

Origin

From Old French plane, from Latin platanus, from Ancient Greek Ï€Î»Î¬Ï„Î±Î½Î¿Ï‚ (platanos), from Ï€Î»Î±Ï„ÏÏ‚ (platus, “wide, broad").

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