Meaning of 'plane' (Webster Dictionary)
- Without elevations or depressions; even; level; flat; lying
in, or constituting, a plane; as, a plane surface.
- 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.
- 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.
- A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a
standard of flatness; a surface plate.
- 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.
- 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.
- To efface or remove.
- Figuratively, to make plain or smooth.
- Any tree of the genus Platanus.
Meaning of 'plane' (Princeton's WordNet)
Meaning (1):
- (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape
Example in sentence:- any line joining two points on a plane lies wholly on that plane;
- we will refer to the plane of the graph as the X-Y plane
Meaning (2):
- a level of existence or development
Example in sentence:- he lived on a worldly plane
Meaning (3):
- a carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood
Example in sentence:- the cabinetmaker used a plane for the finish work
Meaning (4):
- an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets
Example in sentence:- the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane
Meaning (5):
- make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane
Example in sentence:- plane the top of the door
Meaning (6):
- cut or remove with or as if with a plane
Example in sentence:- The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood
Meaning (7):
- having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another
Example in sentence:- a flat desk;
- a plane surface;
- acres of level farmland;
- skirts sewn with fine flat seams
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