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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

... Matapediac average more than 900 feet above the level of the sea. For the purpose of describing this portion of the line claimed by the United States, we may take this height of 900 feet as the elevation of a horizontal plane or base. On this are raised knolls, eminences, and short ridges whose heights above this assumed base vary from 300 to 1,300 feet. The more elevated of these are universally designated by the hunters who occasionally visit ...

— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Tyler - Section 2 (of 3) of Volume 4: John Tyler • Compiled by James D. Richardson

... the realism of tone, not a word that rises above the plane of everyday prose. A whole ...

— A Book Of German Lyrics • Various

... man, you could go out and make and choose. Now, a daughter remains where her father and mother leave her. The sons may rise, the daughters stay below, and if sought for, it is usually in the same channels in which the parents move, and that is the hardship of those who, unlike you, are on a lower plane, or who, like you, have no father and mother to sustain them in their proper place. If you could win wealth, you would only marry for love; and I am sure you will do ...

— Bart Ridgeley - A Story of Northern Ohio • A. G. Riddle

... Instruction, where bureaucratic servility is less intolerable. The daily duties are certainly scarcely more onerous and he had as chiefs, or colleagues, Xavier Charmes and Leon Dierx, Henry Roujon and Rene Billotte, but his office looked out on a beautiful melancholy garden with immense plane trees around which black circles of crows ...

— Maupassant Original Short Stories (180), Complete • Guy de Maupassant

... levers some posts taken from the interior of the oudoupa, and they plied their tools vigorously against the rocky mass. Under their united efforts the stone soon moved. They made a little trench so that it might roll down the inclined plane. As they gradually raised it, the vibrations under foot became more distinct. Dull roarings of flame and the whistling sound of a furnace ran along under the thin crust. The intrepid la-borers, veritable Cyclops handling Earth's fires, worked in silence; soon some fissures ...

— In Search of the Castaways • Jules Verne

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