'Plane' definitions:
Definition of 'plane'
From: WordNet
adjective
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" [syn: flat, level, plane]
noun
An aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets; "the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane" [syn: airplane, aeroplane, plane]
noun
(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" [syn: plane, sheet]
noun
A level of existence or development; "he lived on a worldly plane"
noun
A power tool for smoothing or shaping wood [syn: plane, planer, planing machine]
noun
A carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood; "the cabinetmaker used a plane for the finish work" [syn: plane, carpenter's plane, woodworking plane]
verb
Cut or remove with or as if with a plane; "The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood" [syn: plane, shave]
verb
Travel on the surface of water [syn: plane, skim]
verb
Make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane; "plane the top of the door"
Definition of 'Plane'
From: GCIDE
- Plane \Plane\, n. [F., fr. L. platanus, Gr. ?, fr. ? broad; -- so called on account of its broad leaves and spreading form. See Place, and cf. Platane, Plantain the tree.] (Bot.) Any tree of the genus Platanus. [1913 Webster]
- Note: The Oriental plane (Platanus orientalis) is a native of Asia. It rises with a straight, smooth, branching stem to a great height, with palmated leaves, and long pendulous peduncles, sustaining several heads of small close-sitting flowers. The seeds are downy, and collected into round, rough, hard balls. The Occidental plane (Platanus occidentalis), which grows to a great height, is a native of North America, where it is popularly called sycamore, buttonwood, and buttonball, names also applied to the California species (Platanus racemosa). [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Plane'
From: GCIDE
- Plane \Plane\, n. [F. plane, L. plana. See Plane, v. & a.]
- 1. (Geom.) 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Astron.) 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Mech.) A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Joinery) 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. [1913 Webster]
- Objective plane (Surv.), the horizontal plane upon which the object which is to be delineated, or whose place is to be determined, is supposed to stand.
- Perspective plane. See Perspective.
- Plane at infinity (Geom.), a plane in which points infinitely distant are conceived as situated.
- Plane iron, the cutting chisel of a joiner's plane.
- Plane of polarization. (Opt.) See Polarization.
- Plane of projection. (a) The plane on which the projection is made, corresponding to the perspective plane in perspective; -- called also principal plane. (b) (Descriptive Geom.) One of the planes to which points are referred for the purpose of determining their relative position in space.
- Plane of refraction or Plane of reflection (Opt.), the plane in which lie both the incident ray and the refracted or reflected ray. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Plane'
From: GCIDE
- Plane \Plane\, a. [L. planus: cf. F. plan. See Plan, a.] Without elevations or depressions; even; level; flat; lying in, or constituting, a plane; as, a plane surface. [1913 Webster]
- Note: In science, this word (instead of plain) is almost exclusively used to designate a flat or level surface. [1913 Webster]
- Plane angle, the angle included between two straight lines in a plane.
- Plane chart, Plane curve. See under Chart and Curve.
- Plane figure, a figure all points of which lie in the same plane. If bounded by straight lines it is a rectilinear plane figure, if by curved lines it is a curvilinear plane figure.
- Plane geometry, that part of geometry which treats of the relations and properties of plane figures.
- Plane problem, a problem which can be solved geometrically by the aid of the right line and circle only.
- Plane sailing (Naut.), the method of computing a ship's place and course on the supposition that the earth's surface is a plane.
- Plane scale (Naut.), a scale for the use of navigators, on which are graduated chords, sines, tangents, secants, rhumbs, geographical miles, etc.
- Plane surveying, surveying in which the curvature of the earth is disregarded; ordinary field and topographical surveying of tracts of moderate extent.
- Plane table, an instrument used for plotting the lines of a survey on paper in the field.
- Plane trigonometry, the branch of trigonometry in which its principles are applied to plane triangles. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Plane'
From: GCIDE
- Plane \Plane\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Planed; p. pr. & vb. n. Planing.] [Cf. F. planer, L. planare, fr. planus. See Plane, a., Plain, a., and cf. Planish.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To efface or remove. [1913 Webster]
- He planed away the names . . . written on his tables. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Figuratively, to make plain or smooth. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- What student came but that you planed her path. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Plane'
From: GCIDE
- Plane \Plane\, v. i. Of a boat, to lift more or less out of the water while in motion, after the manner of a hydroplane; to hydroplane. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Synonyms of 'plane'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aeroplane,
- aircraft,
- airliner,
- airplane,
- alabaster,
- amount,
- aspire,
- avion,
- beading plane,
- become airborne,
- bench plane,
- billiard table,
- block plane,
- bowling alley,
- bowling green,
- caliber,
- capping plane,
- claw skyward,
- compass,
- core-box plane,
- cut,
- dab,
- dado plane,
- dead flat,
- dead level,
- degree,
- dovetail plane,
- downy,
- drag,
- dress,
- dub,
- earth,
- edge plane,
- equalize,
- esplanade,
- even,
- extent,
- flat,
- flatland,
- flatten,
- flattened,
- float,
- floor,
- flush,
- fly,
- fly aloft,
- flying machine,
- fore plane,
- gain altitude,
- glabrate,
- glabrescent,
- glabrous,
- glass,
- glide,
- grade,
- grease,
- grooving plane,
- ground,
- hang,
- harrow,
- heavier-than-air craft,
- height,
- homaloid,
- homaloidal,
- horizontal,
- horizontal axis,
- horizontal fault,
- horizontal line,
- horizontal parallax,
- horizontal plane,
- horizontal projection,
- hover,
- ice,
- interval,
- ivory,
- jack plane,
- jet plane,
- jointer,
- kite,
- lay,
- leap,
- leave the ground,
- ledge,
- leiotrichous,
- level,
- level line,
- level plane,
- lubricate,
- mahogany,
- marble,
- mark,
- mean sea level,
- measure,
- mow,
- notch,
- nuance,
- oil,
- parterre,
- pas,
- peg,
- period,
- pitch,
- plain,
- planer,
- planing machine,
- planish,
- plaster,
- plateau,
- platform,
- point,
- poise,
- prairie,
- proportion,
- rabbet plane,
- range,
- ratio,
- reach,
- reed plane,
- regular,
- remove,
- rolled,
- round,
- routing plane,
- rung,
- sash plane,
- satin,
- scale,
- scope,
- scraper plane,
- scrub plane,
- sea level,
- sea of grass,
- shade,
- shadow,
- shave,
- ship,
- silk,
- skate,
- skid,
- skim,
- slide,
- slip,
- smooth,
- smooth down,
- smooth out,
- smooth-shaven,
- smooth-textured,
- smoothed out,
- smoothen,
- smoothened,
- soar,
- space,
- spire,
- squashed,
- squashed flat,
- stair,
- standard,
- step,
- steppe,
- stint,
- suave,
- table,
- tabloid,
- tabular,
- take off,
- tennis court,
- terrace,
- thumb plane,
- tread,
- trenching plane,
- trodden,
- trodden flat,
- trying plane,
- unbroken,
- uniform,
- uninterrupted,
- unrough,
- unroughened,
- unruffled,
- velvet,
- water level,
- zoom
Words containing 'Plane'
- Planed,
- Planing,
- planeness,
- Banding plane,
- Basal plane,
- Bench plane,
- Capping plane,
- Compass plane,
- Composition plane,
- Diametral planes,
- Directer plane,
- Divisional planes,
- Edge plane,
- Fore plane,
- Geometrical plane,
- Ground plane,
- Gutter plane,
- Horizontal plane,
- Inclined plane,
- Jack plane,
- Jointing plane,
- Match plane,
- Median plane,
- Mesial plane,
- Modeling plane,
- Objective plane,
- Perspective plane,
- Pitch of a plane,
- Plane angle,
- Plane at infinity,
- Plane chart,
- Plane curve,
- Plane figure,
- Plane geometry,
- Plane iron,
- Plane locus,
- Plane of flotation,
- Plane of polarization,
- Plane of projection,
- Plane of reflection,
- Plane of refraction,
- Plane problem,
- Plane sailing,
- Plane scale,
- Plane surveying,
- Plane table,
- Plane tree,
- Plane trigonometry,
- Planing machine,
- Primitive plane,
- Principal plane,
- Rabbet plane,
- Scabbard plane,
- Scaleboard plane,
- Side plane,
- Slope of a plane,
- Smoothing plane,
- Tangent plane,
- Thrust plane,
- Toothing plane,
- Twinning plane,
- Vertical plane,
- Vicinal planes,
- Visual plane,
- american plane,
- beading plane,
- block plane,
- bullnosed plane,
- carpenter's plane,
- cartesian plane,
- chamfer plane,
- circular plane,
- combination plane,
- dado plane,
- dovetail plane,
- facet plane,
- fault plane,
- jet plane,
- jointer plane,
- london plane,
- long plane,
- military plane,
- multiengine plane,
- openside plane,
- orbital plane,
- oriental plane,
- picture plane,
- plane seat,
- plane section,
- plane ticket,
- pontoon plane,
- propeller plane,
- reconnaissance plane,
- router plane,
- scrub plane,
- smooth plane,
- tanker plane,
- woodworking plane,
- Convexo-plane,
- Plane-parallel,
- Projection of a point on a plane,
- plane-polarized,
- ski-plane,
- tonguing and grooving plane,
- Projection of a straight line of a plane,
- To develop a curved surface on a plane,
- double-propeller plane,
- jet-propelled plane,
- plane-tree family,
- single-propeller plane,
- turbo-propeller plane,
- twin-propeller-plane