Definitions of Plane [ɪn]

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Definition of 'Plane'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) plane
a flat or level surface.

2.  plane
Geom. a surface generated by a straight line moving at a constant velocity with respect to a fixed point.

3.  plane
an area of a two-dimensional surface having determinate extension and spatial direction or position:
horizontal plane.

4.  plane
a level of dignity, character, or the like:
a high moral plane.

5.  plane
Aeron.

6.  plane
an airplane or a hydroplane.

7.  plane
a thin, flat or curved, extended section of an airplane or a hydroplane, affording a supporting surface.

8. (adj.) plane
flat or level, as a surface.

9.  plane
of or pertaining to planes or plane figures.

10. (v.i.) plane
to glide or soar.

11.  plane
(of a boat) to rise partly out of the water when moving at high speed.

12.  plane
Informal. to fly or travel in an airplane.

13. (n.) plane
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.

14. (v.t.) plane
to smooth or dress with or as if with a plane or a planer.

15.  plane
to remove by or as if by means of a plane (usu. fol. by away or off).

16. (v.i.) plane
to work with a plane.

17.  plane
to function as a plane.

Etymology: (1350–1400; ME < MF < L platanus < Gk plátanos, der. of platýs broad, flat¹ (with reference to the leaves))

Definition of 'Plane'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) airplane, aeroplane, 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"

2. (noun) plane, sheet
(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"

3. (noun) plane
a level of existence or development
"he lived on a worldly plane"

4. (noun) plane, planer, planing machine
a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood

5. (adj) plane, carpenter's plane, woodworking plane
a carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood
"the cabinetmaker used a plane for the finish work"

6. (verb) flat, level, 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"

7. (verb) plane, shave
cut or remove with or as if with a plane
"The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood"

8. (verb) plane, skim
travel on the surface of water

9. (verb) plane
make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane
"plane the top of the door"

Definition of 'Plane'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) plane
an airplane
passengers boarding the plane; as the plane landed/took off; to travel by plane

2. plane
a level in a system
a higher plane of existence

Definition of 'Plane'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) Plane
without elevations or depressions; even; level; flat; lying in, or constituting, a plane; as, a plane surface

2. (adj) Plane
a surface, real or imaginary, in which, if any two points are taken, the straight line which joins them lies wholly in that surface; or a surface, any section of which by a like surface is a straight line; a surface without curvature

3. (adj) Plane
an ideal surface, conceived as coinciding with, or containing, some designated astronomical line, circle, or other curve; as, the plane of an orbit; the plane of the ecliptic, or of the equator

4. (adj) Plane
a block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate

5. (adj) Plane
a tool for smoothing boards or other surfaces of wood, for forming moldings, etc. It consists of a smooth-soled stock, usually of wood, from the under side or face of which projects slightly the steel cutting edge of a chisel, called the iron, which inclines backward, with an apperture in front for the escape of shavings; as, the jack plane; the smoothing plane; the molding plane, etc

6. (adj) Plane
to make smooth; to level; to pare off the inequalities of the surface of, as of a board or other piece of wood, by the use of a plane; as, to plane a plank

7. (adj) Plane
to efface or remove

8. (adj) Plane
figuratively, to make plain or smooth

9. (noun) Plane
any tree of the genus Platanus

Translation of 'Plane'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: an aeroplane.
Afrikaans: vliegtuig	Arabic: طائِرَه	Bulgarian: самолет
Brazilian: avião	Czech: letadlo	German: das Flugzeug
Danish: fly; flyvemaskine	Greek: αεροπλάνο	Spanish: avión
Estonian: lennuk	Farsi: هواپیما	Finnish: lentokone
French: avion	Hebrew: מטוס	Hindi: हवाई जहाज
Croatian: avion	Hungarian: repülő(gép)	Indonesian: pesawat terbang
Icelandic: flugvél	Italian: aereo, aeroplano	Japanese: 飛行機
Korean: 비행기	Lithuanian: lėktuvas	Latvian: lidmašīna
Malay: kapal terbang	Dutch: vliegtuig	Norwegian: fly
Polish: samolot	Persian: هواپیما	Pashto: الوتكه
Portuguese: avião	Romanian: avion	Russian: самолёт
Slovak: lietadlo	Slovenian: letalo	Serbian: avion
Swedish: [flyg]plan	Thai: เครื่องบิน	Turkish: uçak
Taiwanese: 飛機	Ukrainian: літак	Urdu: جہاز
Vietnamese: máy bay	Chinese: 飞机
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