Definitions for plane

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plane plane

Spelling: [pleyn]

IPA: /pleɪn/

Plane is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 70 anagrams from letters in plane (aelnp).

Definitions for plane

noun

1. a flat or level surface.
2. Geometry. a surface generated by a straight line moving at a constant velocity with respect to a fixed point.
3. Fine Arts. an area of a two-dimensional surface having determinate extension and spatial direction or position:
4. a level of dignity, character, existence, development, or the like:
5. Aeronautics. an airplane or a hydroplane: a thin, flat or curved, extended section of an airplane or a hydroplane, affording a supporting surface.
6. Architecture. a longitudinal section through the axis of a column.
7. Carpentry. any of various woodworking instruments for paring, truing, or smoothing, or for forming moldings, chamfers, rabbets, grooves, etc., by means of an inclined, adjustable blade moved along and against the piece being worked.
8. a trowellike tool for smoothing the surface of clay in a brick mold.
9. plane tree.

adjective

1. flat or level, as a surface.
2. of or relating to planes or plane figures.

verb (used with object)

1. to smooth or dress with or as if with a plane or a planer.
2. to remove by or as if by means of a plane (usually followed by away or off).

verb (used without object)

1. to glide or soar.
2. (of a boat) to rise partly out of the water when moving at high speed.
3. Informal. to fly or travel in an airplane:
4. to work with a plane.
5. to function as a plane.

Origin of plane

1400-50 for sense “to soar”; 1640-50 for noun and adj. senses; (noun) Latin plānum flat surface (noun use of plānus flat); (adj.) Latin plānus; first used to distinguish the geometrical sense

Examples for plane

“Call me when the plane leaves the ground,” she said, in a tone that implied she knew her husband well.

Chérif was arrested in Paris in January 2005 as he was about to board a plane to Damascus along with a man named Thamer Bouchnak.

And then I got on a plane, and guess what was playing: I Never Sang for My Father.

On Monday, Soelistyo had jolted relatives as well as searchers by suggesting that the plane could be “at the bottom of the sea.”

The officers and men were more nearly on a plane of equality.

But, there is a limit beyond which the plane surface cannot be reduced with safety.

Your Honner, it is plane, means mighty well by every body, as far as I see.

But a small portion of the Cumberland lies above a plane of 2,000 feet.

The plane in which we travelled bore the emblem of the World Patrol.

As we waited for my plane to come in, we stayed silent for a long time.