plane
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From Latin planum (“‘flat surface’”), a noun use of the neuter of planus (“‘plain’”). The word was introduced in the seventeenth century to distinguish the geometrical senses from the other senses of plain.
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plane (comparative planer, superlative planest)
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plane (plural planes)
- (geometry) A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane).
- A level of existence. (eg, astral plane)
- A roughly flat, thin, often moveable structure used to create lateral force by the flow of air or water over its surface, found on aircraft, submarines, etc.
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From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French, from Late Latin plana (“‘planing tool’”), from plano (“‘to level’”)
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plane (plural planes)
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to plane (third-person singular simple present planes, present participle planing, simple past and past participle planed)
- (transitive) To smooth (wood) with a plane.
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Abbreviated from aeroplane.
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plane (plural planes)
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to plane (third-person singular simple present planes, present participle planing, simple past and past participle planed)
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From Old French plane from Latin platanus, from Ancient Greek πλάτανος (platanos) from πλατύς (platus), “‘wide, broad’”).
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plane (plural planes)
- (countable) (botany) A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus.
- A plane tree.
- (Northern UK) A sycamore.
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plane
- first person and third person indicative and subjunctive of planer, glide
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plane
- First person singular simple present form of planen.
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From plānus (“‘intelligible, clear’”).
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plānē (not comparable)
- distinctly, intelligibly
- wholly, quite, thoroughly
- (in answering) certainly, absolutely, by all reason, beyond a doubt
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- “plane” in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary (Oxford: Clarendon Press)

