SkyfireDict

plane   (TTS Sound)

The noun plane has 5 senses

• airplane, aeroplane, plane -- (an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets; "the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane")


• plane, sheet -- ((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")


• plane -- (a level of existence or development; "he lived on a worldly plane")


• plane, planer, planing machine -- (a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood)


• plane, carpenter's plane, woodworking plane -- (a carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood; "the cabinetmaker used a plane for the finish work")

The verb plane has 3 senses

• plane, shave -- (cut or remove with or as if with a plane; "The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood")


• plane, skim -- (travel on the surface of water)


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

The adj plane has 1 sense

• flat, level, plane -- (having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another; "a flat desk"; "acres of level farmland"; "a plane surface"; "skirts sewn with fine flat seams")