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Plane

noun

An aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets. Synonyms: aeroplane, airplane.

(mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape. Synonym: sheet. "Any line joining two points on a plane lies wholly on that plane"

A level of existence or development.

A power tool for smoothing or shaping wood. Synonyms: planer, planing machine.

A carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood. Synonyms: carpenter's plane, woodworking plane.

verb

(past & past part. planed; pres. part. planing)

Cut or remove with or as if with a plane. Synonym: shave.

Travel on the surface of water. Synonym: skim.

Make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane.

adjective

Having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another. Synonyms: flat, level. "Acres of level farmland" , "A plane surface" , "Skirts sewn with fine flat seams"

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"Plane" Quotes from Famous Books

... heretofore exposed mistakes on the large plane chart, and it is not material to enter further into ...

— Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 • Jasper Danckaerts

... all living things on the same plane of perfection and working harmoniously together for the common good is the heaven humanity should strive to reach. It is within the power of mankind to perfect itself, but this can only be accomplished through the unselfish efforts ...

— Born Again • Alfred Lawson

... the sake of poor Margaret, then, an' she so fond o' you; sure many a time she tould me that sorra brother-in-law ever she had she likes so well, an' I know it's truth; that I may never handle a plane but it is; dang it, ...

— Phelim O'toole's Courtship and Other Stories • William Carleton

... detail in the scene. There was nothing but the great reach of the ocean floor, the unbroken plane of blue sky, and the bare green slope of land—three immensities, gigantic, vast, primordial. It was no place for trivial ideas and thoughts of little things. The mind harked back unconsciously to the broad, simpler, basic emotions, the fundamental instincts ...

— Blix • Frank Norris

... ministering angel? Harry certainly could not have told you if this were so; for an inquiry into the precise nature of his sensations would have posed him at any time quite as completely as a question in hydrostatics or plane trigonometry. At any rate, the consumption of The Cigar was a very important ceremony with him; not conducted in the thoughtless and improvident spirit of men who smoke a dozen or so a day, but partaking rather of the character of a sacrifice, at once festal and solemn. There were times, ...

— Sword and Gown - A Novel • George A. Lawrence

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