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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 carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood; "the cabinetmaker used a plane for the finish work"

(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"

a level of existence or development; "he lived on a worldly plane"

cut or remove with or as if with a plane; "The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood"

make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane; "plane the top of the door"

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 carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood; "the cabinetmaker used a plane for the finish work"

(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"

a level of existence or development; "he lived on a worldly plane"

make even or smooth, as with a carpenter's plane

Of a boat, to lift more or less out of the water while in motion, after the manner of a hydroplane; to hydroplane.

Any tree of the genus Platanus.

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

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.

An ideal surface, conceived as coinciding with, or containing, some designated astronomical line, circle, or other curve; as, the plane of an orbit; the plane of the ecliptic, or of the equator.

A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate.

A tool for smoothing boards or other surfaces of wood, for forming moldings, etc. It consists of a smooth-soled stock, usually of wood, from the under side or face of which projects slightly the steel cutting edge of a chisel, called the iron, which inclines backward, with an apperture in front for the escape of shavings; as, the jack plane; the smoothing plane; the molding plane, etc.

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.

To efface or remove.

Figuratively, to make plain or smooth.

Of a boat, to lift more or less out of the water while in motion, after the manner of a hydroplane; to hydroplane.

Any tree of the genus Platanus.

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

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.

An ideal surface, conceived as coinciding with, or containing, some designated astronomical line, circle, or other curve; as, the plane of an orbit; the plane of the ecliptic, or of the equator.

A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate.

A tool for smoothing boards or other surfaces of wood, for forming moldings, etc. It consists of a smooth-soled stock, usually of wood, from the under side or face of which projects slightly the steel cutting edge of a chisel, called the iron, which inclines backward, with an apperture in front for the escape of shavings; as, the jack plane; the smoothing plane; the molding plane, etc.

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.

To efface or remove.

Figuratively, to make plain or smooth.

Flat; level; even; without elevations or depressions.

A flat or even surface; a grade or level of life; as, a person's social plane; a carpenter's tool for smoothing wood.

To make level; make smooth or even with a tool.

A level surface: (geom.) an even superficies.

Plain: even: level: pertaining to, lying in, or forming a plane.

To make a surface (as of wood) level.

An even surface; tool for smoothing surfaces; tree with broad leaves.

To smooth with a plane.

To make smooth or even; bring to a level; dress with a plane.

Planer.

Lying in a plane; level; flat.

A flat surface.

A grade of development; stage; level.

Aero. The principal, or one of the principal supporting elements of an aeroplane.

A tool for producing a smooth, even surface.

The sycamore or buttonwood. planetree.

A level surface; a surface such that if any two of its points are joined by a straight line that line will lie wholly within the surface.

An ideal Plane as above defined, used as a basis or standard of reference by means of which the positions of the parts of a body or organism are indicated.

n. An even or level surface; a real figure in which lines or curves drawn between any two points lie in the same surface;—an imaginary surface supposed to be drawn through any of the curves or orbits described in the celestial sphere;—a carpenter's or joiner's tool consisting of a chisel projecting from an aperture in a wooden frame, and used to pare or smooth boards or other surfaces of wood.