Dictionary Definition
plane adj : having a horizontal surface in which
no part is higher or lower than another; "a flat desk"; "acres of
level farmland"; "a plane surface" [syn: flat, level]
Noun
1 an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is
powered by propellers or jets; "the flight was delayed due to
trouble with the airplane" [syn: airplane, aeroplane]
2 (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"
[syn: sheet]
3 a level of existence or development; "he lived
on a worldly plane"
4 a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood
[syn: planer, planing
machine]
5 a carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable
blade for smoothing or shaping wood; "the cabinetmaker used a plane
for the finish work" [syn: carpenter's
plane, woodworking
plane]
Verb
1 cut or remove with or as if with a plane; "The
machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood" [syn:
shave]
2 travel on the surface of water [syn: skim]
3 make even or smooth, with or as with a
carpenter's plane; "plane the top of the door"
User Contributed Dictionary
see Plane
English
Pronunciation
- /pleɪn/, /pl̩eɪn/
- Rhymes: -eɪn
Homophones
Etymology 1
From 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.Translations
Of a surface: Perfectly flat or level.
Noun
- A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions.
- A level of existence. (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.
Translations
flat surface extending infinitely in all
directions
- Czech: rovina, plocha
- Danish: plan
- Dutch: vlak
- Esperanto: ebeno
- Finnish: taso
- French: plan
- German: Ebene
- Greek: επίπεδο [e̞ˈpipe̞ˌðo̞]
- Hebrew: מישור (mishor)
- Ido: plano
- Italian: piano
- Latvian: plakne
- Norwegian: plan
- Polish: płaszczyzna
- Portuguese: plano
- Russian: плоскость (plóskost’)
- Slovak: rovina
- Spanish: plano
- Swedish: plan
- Telugu: తలము (talamu)
- Vietnamese: mặt
level of existence
structure to create lateral force
- Finnish: siipi
Translations
a tool
- Albanian: zdrukth
- Catalan: ribot
- Croatian: strug , rende
- Czech: hoblík
- Danish: høvl
- Dutch: schaaf
- Esperanto: rabotilo
- Finnish: höylä
- French: rabot
- German: Hobel
- Greek: πλάνη [ˈplani] , ροκάνι [ro̞ˈkani] , ρυκάνη [riˈkani]
- Hebrew: מקצוע (maktsoa)
- Hungarian: gyalu
- Italian: pialla, piallatrice
- Maltese: varloppa
- Norwegian: høvel
- Portuguese: plaina
- Russian: рубанок (rubánok)
- Sardinian (Campidanese): prana
- Serbian: strug, rende
- Slovak: hoblík
- Slovene: skobelj
- Spanish: cepillo
- Swedish: hyvel
- Turkish: rende
Related terms
Verb
- To smooth (wood) with a plane.
Translations
to smooth with a plane
- Czech: hoblovat
- Danish: høvle
- Dutch: schaven
- Finnish: höylätä
- German: hobeln
- Greek: πλανίζω [plaˈnizo̞], ροκανίζω [ˌro̞kaˈnizo̞] (means also "to gnaw"), λειαίνω [liˈe̞no̞], εξομαλίζω [e̞ˌk͡so̞maˈlizo̞], ομαλύνω [ˌo̞maˈlino̞], ισιάζω [iˈsçazo̞]
- Hebrew: להקציע (lehaktsia)
- Italian: piallare
- Norwegian: høvle
- Portuguese: aplainar
- Russian: строгать (strogát’)
- Slovak: hobľovať
- Swedish: hyvla
- Telugu: చిత్రిక పట్టు (chitrika paTTu)
- Vietnamese: bào
Etymology 3
Abbreviated from aeroplane.Derived terms
Translations
airplane
- Asturian: avión
- Czech: letoun
- Danish: flyver
- Dutch: vliegtuig
- Finnish: lentokone
- French: avion
- German: Flugzeug , Flieger (infml.)
- Greek: αεροπλάνο
- Hebrew: מטוס (matos) , אווירון (aviron)
- Italian: aereo
- Norwegian: fly
- Polish: samolot
- Portuguese: avião, aeroplano
- Russian: самолёт
- Slovak: lietadlo
- Swahili: ndege
- Swedish: plan
- Tok Pisin: balus
- Turkish: uçak, tayyare (obsolete)
- Vietnamese: máy bay; tàu bay (poetic)
Translations
to move in a way that lifts the bow of a boat
out of the water
to glide
- Czech: plachtit
- Finnish: liitää, liukua
- German: gleiten
- Russian: парить
Etymology 4
From Old (and modern) French plane, from Latin platanus, from Greek πλατανος, from πλατος ‘broad’.Translations
deciduous tree
French
Verb
plane- first person and third person indicative and sunbjunctive of planer, glide
Extensive Definition
Plane or Planes may refer to:
Physical objects
- Airplane (Aeroplane), a powered fixed-wing aircraft
- Plane (tool), a tool for shaving wood
- Platanus, a genus of trees with the common name "plane"
- Acer pseudoplatanus, a tree species sometimes called "plane"
- Planes, a genus of crabs in the family Grapsidae called "weed crabs", containing e.g. the Blue Pacific weed crab (P. cyaneus) and the Gulfweed crab (P. minutus)
Concepts
- Plane
(mathematics), theoretical surface which has infinite width and
length, zero thickness, and zero curvature
- Lattice plane, a plane in a crystal structure
- Clipping plane, in computer graphics
- Plane
(metaphysics), a theoretical type of region, of which the known
universe is only one example
- Physical plane, the region containing the universe itself
- Plane (Dungeons & Dragons), a plane of existence within the role-playing game
- Plane (Magic: The Gathering), a plane of existence within the trading card game
- Planes of existence (talker), a plane of existence within a specific talker
- Plane of immanence, a philosophical concept
- Planing (sailing), a method of travelling quickly across water by using speed to lift the hull out of the water
Places
- Planes, Alicante, is a municipality in Spain
plane in German: Plane
plane in French: Plane (homonymie)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
aeroplane, aircraft, airliner, airplane, alabaster, amount, aspire, avion, beading plane, become
airborne, bench plane, billiard table, block plane, bowling alley,
bowling green, caliber,
capping plane, claw skyward, compass, core-box plane,
cut, dab, dado plane, dead flat, dead
level, degree, dovetail
plane, downy, drag, dress, dub, earth, edge plane, equalize, esplanade, even, extent, flat, flatland, flatten, flattened, float, floor, flush, fly, fly aloft, flying machine, fore
plane, gain altitude, glabrate, glabrescent, glabrous, glass, glide, grade, grease, grooving plane, ground, hang, harrow, heavier-than-air craft,
height, homaloid, homaloidal, horizontal, horizontal axis,
horizontal fault, horizontal line, horizontal parallax, horizontal
plane, horizontal projection, hover, ice, interval, ivory, jack plane, jet plane,
jointer, kite, lay, leap, leave the ground, ledge, leiotrichous, level, level line, level plane,
lubricate, mahogany, marble, mark, mean sea level, measure, mow, notch, nuance, oil, parterre, pas, peg, period, pitch, plain, planer, planing machine, planish, plaster, plateau, platform, point, poise, prairie, proportion, rabbet plane,
range, ratio, reach, reed plane, regular, remove, rolled, round, routing plane, rung, sash plane, satin, scale, scope, scraper plane, scrub plane,
sea level, sea of grass, shade, shadow, shave, ship, silk, skate, skid, skim, slide, slip, smooth, smooth down, smooth out,
smooth-shaven, smooth-textured, smoothed out, smoothen, smoothened, soar, space, spire, squashed, squashed flat,
stair, standard, step, steppe, stint, suave, table, tabloid, tabular, take off, tennis court,
terrace, thumb plane,
tread, trenching plane,
trodden, trodden flat,
trying plane, unbroken,
uniform, uninterrupted, unrough, unroughened, unruffled, velvet, water level, zoom