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plane
a carpenter’s tool; to smooth: plane the wood; to travel by airplane
Not to be confused with:
plain – simple; clearly evident; unpretentious; unadorned: plain truth
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plane 1
(plān)n.
1. Mathematics A surface containing all the straight lines that connect any two points on it.
2. A flat or level surface.
3. A level of development, existence, or achievement: scholarship on a high plane.
4. An airplane or hydroplane.
5. A supporting surface of an airplane; an airfoil or wing.
adj.
1. Mathematics Of or being a figure lying in a plane: a plane curve.
2. Flat; level. See Synonyms at level.
[Latin plānum, flat surface, from neuter of plānus, flat; see pelə- in Indo-European roots. N., sense 4, short for aeroplane.]
plane′ness n.
plane 2
(plān)n.
1. A carpenter's tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing and leveling wood.
2. A trowel-shaped tool for smoothing the surface of clay, sand, or plaster in a mold.
v. planed, plan·ing, planes
v.tr.
1. To smooth or finish with a plane: planed the door.
2. To remove with a plane: plane off the rough edges on a board.
v.intr.
To work with a plane.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin plāna, from plānāre, to plane, from plānus, flat; see pelə- in Indo-European roots.]
plane 3
(plān)intr.v. planed, plan·ing, planes
1. To rise partly out of the water, as a hydroplane does at high speeds.
2. To soar or glide.
3. To travel by airplane.
[Middle English planen, to glide, soar, from Old French planer, from plain, flat, level; see plain.]
plane 4
(plān)n.
The plane tree.
[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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plane
(pleɪn)n
1. (Mathematics) maths a flat surface in which a straight line joining any two of its points lies entirely on that surface
2. a flat or level surface
3. a level of existence, performance, attainment, etc
4. (Aeronautics)
a. short for aeroplane
b. a wing or supporting surface of an aircraft or hydroplane
adj
5. level or flat
6. (Mathematics) maths (of a curve, figure, etc) lying entirely in one plane
vb (intr)
7. to fly without moving wings or using engines; glide
8. (Nautical Terms) (of a boat) to rise partly and skim over the water when moving at a certain speed
9. to travel by aeroplane
[C17: from Latin plānum level surface]
ˈplaneness n
plane
(pleɪn)n
1. (Tools) a tool with an adjustable sharpened steel blade set obliquely in a wooden or iron body, for levelling or smoothing timber surfaces, cutting mouldings or grooves, etc
2. (Tools) a flat tool, usually metal, for smoothing the surface of clay or plaster in a mould
vb (tr)
3. (Tools) to level, smooth, or cut (timber, wooden articles, etc) using a plane or similar tool
4. (Tools) (often foll by off) to remove using a plane
[C14: via Old French from Late Latin plāna plane, from plānāre to level]
plane
(pleɪn)n
(Plants) See plane tree
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plane1
(pleɪn)n., adj., v. planed, plan•ing. n.
1. a flat or level surface.
2. Geom. a surface generated by a straight line moving at a constant velocity with respect to a fixed point.
3. an area of a two-dimensional surface having determinate extension and spatial direction or position: horizontal plane.
4. a level of dignity, character, or the like: a high moral plane.
5. Aeron.
adj. a. an airplane or a hydroplane.
b. a thin, flat or curved, extended section of an airplane or a hydroplane, affording a supporting surface.
6. flat or level, as a surface.
7. of or pertaining to planes or plane figures.
v.i. 8. to glide or soar.
9. (of a boat) to rise partly out of the water when moving at high speed.
10. Informal. to fly or travel in an airplane.
[1400–50; (n., adj.) < Latin plānum flat surface, plānus flat; (v.) late Middle English planen (of a bird) to soar (compare Middle French planer); (definitions 5,10,11) shortening of aeroplane, airplane, or hydroplane]
plane2
(pleɪn)n., v. planed, plan•ing. n.
1. any of various woodworking instruments for paring, truing, or smoothing, or for forming moldings, chamfers, etc., by means of an inclined, adjustable blade moved along and against the piece being worked.
v.t. 2. to smooth or dress with or as if with a plane or a planer.
3. to remove by or as if by means of a plane (usu. fol. by away or off).
v.i. 4. to work with a plane.
5. to function as a plane.
[1275–1325; (n.) Middle English (< Middle French) < Late Latin plāna, derivative of plānāre to smooth, derivative of Latin plānus plain1; (v.) Middle English planen (< Middle French planer) < Late Latin plānāre]
plane3
(pleɪn)n.
[1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French < Latin platanus < Greek plátanos, derivative of platýs broad, flat1 (with reference to the leaves)]
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plane
(plān)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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plane
Past participle: planed
Gerund: planing
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| Noun | 1. |  plane - an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets; "the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane"circumnavigation - traveling around something (by ship or plane); "Magellan's circumnavigation of the earth proved that it is a globe" accelerator, accelerator pedal, gas pedal, throttle, gas, gun - a pedal that controls the throttle valve; "he stepped on the gas" airliner - a commercial airplane that carries passengers amphibious aircraft, amphibian - an airplane designed to take off and land on water biplane - old fashioned airplane; has two wings one above the other bomber - a military aircraft that drops bombs during flight defroster, deicer - heater that removes ice or frost (as from a windshield or a refrigerator or the wings of an airplane) delta wing - an airplane with wings that give it the appearance of an isosceles triangle escape hatch - hatchway that provides a means of escape in an emergency attack aircraft, fighter aircraft, fighter - a high-speed military or naval airplane designed to destroy enemy aircraft in the air fuselage - the central body of an airplane that is designed to accommodate the crew and passengers (or cargo) hangar queen - an airplane with a bad maintenance record heavier-than-air craft - a non-buoyant aircraft that requires a source of power to hold it aloft and to propel it cowl, cowling, bonnet, hood - protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine; "there are powerful engines under the hoods of new cars"; "the mechanic removed the cowling in order to repair the plane's engine" dip circle, inclinometer - a measuring instrument for measuring the angle of magnetic dip (as from an airplane) landing gear - an undercarriage that supports the weight of the plane when it is on the ground monoplane - an airplane with a single wing multiengine airplane, multiengine plane - a plane with two or more engines navigation light - light on an airplane that indicates the plane's position and orientation; red light on the left (port) wing tip and green light on the right (starboard) wing tip propeller plane - an airplane that is driven by a propeller radar dome, radome - a housing for a radar antenna; transparent to radio waves reconnaissance plane - a military airplane used to gain information about an enemy roll-on roll-off - a method of transport (as a ferry or train or plane) that vehicles roll onto at the beginning and roll off of at the destination hydroplane, seaplane - an airplane that can land on or take off from water; "the designer of marine aircraft demonstrated his newest hydroplane" ski-plane - an airplane equipped with skis so it can land on a snowfield tanker plane - an airplane constructed to transport chemicals that can be dropped in order to fight a forest fire windscreen, windshield - transparent screen (as of glass) to protect occupants of a vehicle wing - one of the horizontal airfoils on either side of the fuselage of an airplane log - a written record of events on a voyage (of a ship or plane) seat, place - a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane); "he booked their seats in advance"; "he sat in someone else's place" highjacker, hijacker - someone who uses force to take over a vehicle (especially an airplane) in order to reach an alternative destination passenger, rider - a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it drift - the gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane) leeway - (of a ship or plane) sideways drift atomic number 22, Ti, titanium - a light strong grey lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong lightweight alloys (as for airplane parts); the main sources are rutile and ilmenite prang - crash hunt - yaw back and forth about a flight path; "the plane's nose yawed" astern - (of a ship or an airplane) behind; "we dropped her astern on the end of a seven-inch manilla, and she laid comfortably on the ebb tide" |
| 2. | plane - (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape; "we will refer to the plane of the graph as the X-Y plane"; "any line joining two points on a plane lies wholly on that plane" shape, form - the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance; "geometry is the mathematical science of shape" math, mathematics, maths - a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement Cartesian plane - a plane in which all points can be described in Cartesian coordinates facet plane - the plane of a facet of an object (as of a cube) orbital plane - (astronomy) the plane on which a body is orbiting picture plane - the plane that is in the foreground of a drawing or painting; coextensive with but different from the objective surface of the work tangent plane - the plane that contains all the lines tangent to a specific point on a surface | |
| 3. | plane - a level of existence or development; "he lived on a worldly plane" | |
| 4. |  plane - a power tool for smoothing or shaping woodpower tool - a tool driven by a motor | |
| 5. |  plane - a carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood; "the cabinetmaker used a plane for the finish work"beading plane - a plane with a concave blade for making moulding with beadwork block plane - a small plane used on end grains of wood bullnose, bullnosed plane - a small carpenter's plane with the cutting edge near the front chamfer plane - a plane that makes a beveled edge circular plane, compass plane - a plane with a flexible face that can plane concave or convex surfaces combination plane - a woodworking plane that has interchangeable cutters of various shapes dovetail plane - a woodworking plane designed to make the grooves for dovetail joints edge tool - any cutting tool with a sharp cutting edge (as a chisel or knife or plane or gouge) fore plane - a carpenter's plane intermediate between a jack plane and a jointer plane hand tool - a tool used with workers' hands jack plane - a carpenter's plane for rough finishing jointer, jointer plane, jointing plane, long plane - a long carpenter's plane used to shape the edges of boards so they will fit together match plane, tonguing and grooving plane - a plane having cutters designed to make the tongues and grooves on the edges of matchboards openside plane, rabbet plane - a woodworking plane designed to cut rabbets router plane - a woodworking plane with a narrow cutting head that will make grooves with smooth bottoms scrub plane - a narrow woodworking plane used to cut away excess stock smooth plane, smoothing plane - a small plane for finish work spokeshave - a small plane that has a handle on each side of its blade; used for shaping or smoothing cylindrical wooden surfaces (originally wheel spokes) | |
| Verb | 1. | plane - cut or remove with or as if with a plane; "The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood" cut - separate with or as if with an instrument; "Cut the rope" |
| 2. | plane - travel on the surface of water glide - move smoothly and effortlessly aquaplane - ride on an aquaplane aquaplane - rise up onto a thin film of water between the tires and road so that there is no more contact with the road; "the car aquaplaned" | |
| 3. | plane - make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane; "plane the top of the door" | |
| Adj. | 1. | plane - having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another; "a flat desk"; "acres of level farmland"; "a plane surface"; "skirts sewn with fine flat seams" even - being level or straight or regular and without variation as e.g. in shape or texture; or being in the same plane or at the same height as something else (i.e. even with); "an even application of varnish"; "an even floor"; "the road was not very even"; "the picture is even with the window" |
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plane
noun
2. flat surface, the flat, horizontal, level surface a building with angled planes
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plane 1
adjectiveplane 2
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Translations
سَطْحٌ مُسْتَوٍسَطْح مُسْتَوٍصِنّار، شَجْرَة الدُّلْبطَائِرَةطائِرَه
hoblíkletadloplachtitplatanplocha
flyhøvlplanplatanstade
höylälentokonetasoliitääliukua
blanjaravninarendestrugzrakoplov
gyalu
flugvélhefillheflalíîa eftir vatnsfletiplatanviîur
かんな平面飛行機
대패비행기평면
ēveleēvelētlidmašīnalīmenisplakne
hoblíkplatanrovina
letalo
rendestrug
flygplanhyvelplanplan ytaplana
ndege
เครื่องบินกบไสไม้พื้นราบ
bằngbằng phẳngbàocái bàomặt
plane
[pleɪn]A. N
1. (= aeroplane, airplane) → avión m
to go by plane → ir en avión
to send goods by plane → enviar mercancías por avión
to go by plane → ir en avión
to send goods by plane → enviar mercancías por avión
3. (fig) → nivel m
he seems to exist on another plane → parece vivir en otro nivel or en una esfera distinta
on the ideological plane → en el plano ideológico
she tried to lift the conversation onto a higher plane → trató de llevar la conversación a un nivel más elevado
he seems to exist on another plane → parece vivir en otro nivel or en una esfera distinta
on the ideological plane → en el plano ideológico
she tried to lift the conversation onto a higher plane → trató de llevar la conversación a un nivel más elevado
5. (Bot) (also plane tree) → plátano m
D. VI [bird, glider] → planear; [boat, car] → deslizarse
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
plane
[ˈpleɪn]Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
plane
1n (also plane tree) → Platane f
plane
2adj → eben (also Math); surface also → plan
vi (bird, glider, speedboat) → gleiten
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
plane
1 [pleɪn] n → aereoplane
2 [pleɪn]1. adj (Geom) → piano/a
plane
3 [pleɪn]1. n (tool) → pialla
plane
4 [pleɪn] n (tree) → platanoLondon plane → platano di Londra
plane
5 [pleɪn] vi (bird, glider, boat) → planareCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
plane1
(plein) noun1. an aeroplane.
2. a level or standard. Man is on a higher plane (of development) than the apes.
3. in geometry, a flat surface.
verb to move smoothly over the surface (of water etc).
plane2
(plein) noun a carpenter's tool for making a level or smooth surface.
verb to make (a surface) level, smooth or lower by using a plane.
plane3
(plein) noun a type of tree with broad leaves.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
plane
→ سَطْحٌ مُسْتَوٍ, طَائِرَة, مَنْجَر hoblík, letadlo, rovina fly, høvl, plan Ebene, Flugzeug, Hobel αεροπλάνο, επίπεδη επιφάνεια, πλάνη avión, cepillo de carpintero, plano höylä, lentokone, taso avion, plan, rabot blanja, ravnina, zrakoplov aeroplano, pialla, piano かんな, 平面, 飛行機 대패, 비행기, 평면 schaaf, vlak, vliegtuig flate, fly, høvel hebel, płaszczyzna, samolot avião, plaina, plano плоскость, рубанок, самолет flygplan, hyvel, plan yta เครื่องบิน, กบไสไม้, พื้นราบ düzlem, rende, uçak cái bào, mặt phẳng, máy bay 刨子, 平面, 飞机Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
plane
n. plano.
superficie lisa y plana;
superficie relativamente lisa formada por un corte imaginario o un corte real a través de una parte del cuerpo;
axial ___ → ___ axial;
coronal ___ → ___ coronal, frontal;
sagittal ___ → ___ sagital.
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plane
n planoEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.