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plane

(pl/eI/n )

Without elevations or depressions; even; level; flat; lying in, or constituting, a plane; as, a plane surface.(adjective)

source: webster1913

an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets(noun.artifact)

Example:
The flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane.

Synonym:
aeroplane, airplane

source: wordnet30
(mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape(noun.shape)

Example:
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.

Synonym:
sheet

source: wordnet30
a level of existence or development(noun.state)

Example:
He lived on a worldly plane.

source: wordnet30
a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood(noun.artifact)

Synonym:
planer, planing machine

source: wordnet30
a carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood(noun.artifact)

Example:
The cabinetmaker used a plane for the finish work.

source: wordnet30
Any tree of the genus Platanus.(noun)

source: webster1913
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.(noun)

source: webster1913

cut or remove with or as if with a plane(verb.contact)

Synonym:
shave

source: wordnet30
travel on the surface of water(verb.motion)

Synonym:
skim

source: wordnet30
make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane(verb.contact)

Example:
Plane the top of the door.

source: wordnet30
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.(verb)

source: webster1913
Of a boat, to lift more or less out of the water while in motion, after the manner of a hydroplane; to hydroplane.(verb)

source: webster1913