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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

... the face of the enemy when one can return shot for shot is one thing, but heroism of the same kind in an unarmed ship is on rather a different plane. ...

— Stand By! - Naval Sketches and Stories • Henry Taprell Dorling

... Nani quippe (saith Ludolphus) Naturae quodam errore ex aliis justae staturae hominibus generantur. Qualis vero ea Gens sit, ex qua ista Naturae Ludibria tanta copia proveniant, Vossium docere oportelat, quia Pumiliones Pumiles alios non gignunt, sed plerunque steriles sunt, experientia teste; ut plane non opus habuerunt Doctores Talmudici Nanorum matrimonia prohibere, ne Digitales ex iis nascerentur. Ludolphus it may be is a little too strict with Vossius for calling them Nani; he may only ...

— A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients • Edward Tyson

... Paul. He wondered vaguely why all this intense feeling went running because of a few burnt potatoes. The mother exalted everything—even a bit of housework—to the plane of a religious trust. The sons resented this; they felt themselves cut away underneath, and they answered with brutality and also with ...

— Sons and Lovers • David Herbert Lawrence

... identity is no secret to adepts. Brothers of the great white lodge always watching to see if they can help. The Christ with the bridesister, moisture of light, born of an ensouled virgin, repentant sophia, departed to the plane of buddhi. The life esoteric is not for ordinary person. O.P. must work off bad karma first. Mrs Cooper Oakley once glimpsed our ...

— Ulysses • James Joyce

... miles farther eastward, flashed its jewelled waters into the sun from a plane fully five hundred feet higher than the tall chimneys of the ranch-house. About it stood the most precipitous granite cliffs to be found hereabouts. They rose, sheer and majestic, still another five hundred feet, here and there eight ...

— Judith of Blue Lake Ranch • Jackson Gregory

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