'Planing' definitions:
Definition of 'Planing'
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 'Planing'
From: GCIDE
- Planing \Plan"ing\, a. & vb. n. fr. Plane, v. t. [1913 Webster]
- Planing machine. (a) See Planer. (b) A complex machine for planing wood, especially boards, containing usually a rapidly revolving cutter, which chips off the surface in small shavings as the piece to be planed is passed under it by feeding apparatus. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'Planing'
- Plane,
- Planed,
- 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