[
UK
/plˈeɪn/
]
[ US /ˈpɫeɪn/ ]
[ US /ˈpɫeɪn/ ]
NOUN
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a carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood
the cabinetmaker used a plane for the finish work - a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood
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an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets
the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane -
a level of existence or development
he lived on a worldly plane -
(mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape
any line joining two points on a plane lies wholly on that plane
we will refer to the plane of the graph as the X-Y plane
VERB
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make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane
plane the top of the door - travel on the surface of water
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cut or remove with or as if with a plane
The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood
ADJECTIVE
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having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another
acres of level farmland
skirts sewn with fine flat seams
a flat desk
a plane surface
How To Use plane In A Sentence
- They are essential atmospheric cladding which prevents the earth from becoming a frozen planet.
- It is, we learned, easier to learn to fly a plane than to master touch-typing. Radio review: Fry's English Delight: The Trial Of Qwerty
- The terrestrial planets in our solar system all have very specific spectroscopic fingerprints that tell us quite a bit about their atmospheres.
- They establish a colony on Ragol but this perfect planet soon unleashes a few surprises and all hell breaks loose.
- The experience was a little like being seated next to a cheerful, open-faced fellow on a long airplane flight who begins talking to you - and then never, ever, ever stops, not even when he has his Salisbury steak dinner in his mouth.
- If it were a little more curved it would collapse, imploding on itself in a cosmic crunch; a little less curved, and every star, planet, sun and galaxy would fly apart from each other and so would every atom of matter in each of them.
- In 2007, a jury let the Fairford Two off after they had broken into an RAF airbase to ground B-52 planes and prevent, they hoped, potential war crimes against Iraqi civilians.
- I claim it is helping save the planet, being heated by the odd feline and my doona. The post in which I whine about the weather
- And she was learning how to fly an airplane.
- These planes are made with two separate stocks held together with either metal or turned wooden screws.
