English dictionary
plane
adjectiveAudio pronunciation
Parts of speech
Definitions
adjective
- having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another
noun
- an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets
noun
- a carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood
noun
- a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood
noun
- (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape
noun
- a level of existence or development
verb
- cut or remove with or as if with a plane
verb
- make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane
verb
- travel on the surface of water
Example sentences
a flat desk
acres of level farmland
a plane surface
skirts sewn with fine flat seams
the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane
the cabinetmaker used a plane for the finish work
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
he lived on a worldly plane
The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood
plane the top of the door