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plane
I. \ˈplān\ verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English planen, from Middle French planer, from Late Latin planare to make flat, level, from Latin planus flat, level — more at floor
transitive verb
1. : to make smooth or even : level
< what student came but that you planed her path — Alfred Tennyson >
2. : to produce a plane surface on by the use of a planer
3. : to remove by or as if by planing
< the mountainside had come away bodily, planed clean — Rudyard Kipling >
intransitive verb
1.
a. : to work with a plane
b. : to do the work of a plane
2. : to extend in a smooth or level line without elevations or depressions
< mellow farmlands plane to the water's edge — American Guide Series: Vermont >
< this sea that planed away in all directions — T.O.Heggen >
II. noun
or plane tree
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin platanus, from Greek platanos; akin to Greek platys broad — more at place
: a tree of the genus Platanus
III. noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Late Latin plana, from planare to make level
: a tool for smoothing or shaping a surface of wood that consists of a smooth-soled stock as of wood or iron from the face of which projects slightly the steel cutting edge of a chisel set at an angle to the face with an aperture in the front for the escape of shavings — see beading plane, bench plane, block plane, bullnosed plane, chamfer plane, circular plane, combination plane, dado plane, dovetail plane, fore plane, jack plane, jointer plane, match plane, rabbet plane, router plane, scrub plane, smoothing plane
IV. noun
(-s)
Etymology: Latin planum level surface, from neuter of planus level, flat
1.
a.
(1) : a surface such that the straight line that joins any two of its points lies wholly in that surface : a two-dimensional extent of zero curvature : a surface any intersection of which by a like surface is a straight line
(2) : the graph of a linear equation in three dimensions
b.
(1) : a flat or level material surface
< an inclined plane >
< the faults have tilted a plane to the west — Journal of Geology >
(2) : facet
< the evening sunlight had begun to turn the smooth planes of the prickly pears into trembling mirrors — Michael Swan >
c. : an imaginary plane surface used to identify the position of a bodily organ or a part of the skull
< alveolocondylean plane >
d. : surface plate
e. : an inclined track (as in a coal mine) over which transportation of a string of cars or a train is effected by gravity or by external power (as by a stationary engine)
2.
a. : a level of existence, consciousness, or development
< moved on a plane of excited worldliness — H.S.Canby >
< keep the conversation on an amicable plane — P.G.Wodehouse >
< on the intellectual plane >
< on the religious plane >
b. : any of the seven theosophical stages or states of manifestation of being : a sphere of existence in theosophy
c. : a stage in surgical anesthesia
< the patient can be brought into the second plane of anesthesia in another location — Journal American Medical Association >
3.
a. : one of the main supporting surfaces of an airplane
< a low-wing, all-metal single-plane craft — Science News Letter >
< biplane >
b. [by shortening] : airplane
< jet plane >
< transport plane >
c. : diving plane
V. adjective
Etymology: Latin planus flat, level — more at floor
1. : having no elevations or depressions : forming part of a plane : flat, level
< a plane surface >
2.
a. : of, relating to, or dealing with planes or two-dimensional figures only
b. : lying in a plane
< a plane curve >
Synonyms: see level
VI. intransitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: French planer, from plan plane, from Latin planum level surface; from the level surface formed by the wings of a soaring bird
1.
a. : to soar on or as if on wings
< watching a gull plane down in circles without moving a wing — G.W.Brace >
< a great morpho butterfly leisurely planing along — H.M.Tomlinson >
b.
(1) of a seaplane : to move through the water at such a speed as to be supported by hydrodynamic and aerodynamic rather than by hydrostatic forces
(2) of a boat : to skim across the surface of the water : lift partly out of the water while in motion
< these craft, when they reach a certain speed, plane on the flat after sections of their hull — Peter Heaton >
c. : to move downward as if on an inclined plane : glide
< planed down toward it and in a few moments could make out that it was a ship — J.H.Marsh >
< were pulling her stern first to keep her from diving and planing to the bottom — N.C.McDonald >
2. [plane (IV) (airplane)] : to travel by airplane
< had planed, trained and driven fifteen hundred miles — Paul Gallico >
3. of a submarine : to move from one level to another
< ordered me to plane upward two feet, to allow him to raise the periscope that much higher out of the water and thus see a little farther — E.L.Beach > |