plane

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[edit] English

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[edit] Pronunciation

  • IPA: /pleɪn/, /pl̩eɪn/
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  • Rhymes: -eɪn
  • Homophone: plain

[edit] Etymology 1

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)

  1. Of a surface: flat or level.
[edit] Translations
of a surface: flat or level.

[edit] Noun

plane (plural planes)

  1. (geometry) A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane).
  2. A level of existence. (eg, astral plane)
  3. 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.
  4. (computing, Unicode) Any of a number of designated ranges of sequential code points.
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[edit] Translations
flat surface extending infinitely in all directions
level of existence
structure to create lateral force

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[edit] Etymology 2

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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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a rabbet plane

plane (plural planes)

  1. (countable) A tool for smoothing wood by removing thin layers from the surface.
[edit] Translations
a tool
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[edit] Verb

plane (third-person singular simple present planes, present participle planing, simple past and past participle planed)

  1. (transitive) To smooth (wood) with a plane.
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to smooth with a plane

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Abbreviated from aeroplane.

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plane (plural planes)

  1. An airplane; an aeroplane.
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[edit] Translations
airplane

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plane (third-person singular simple present planes, present participle planing, simple past and past participle planed)

  1. (nautical) To move in a way that lifts the bow of a boat out of the water.
  2. To glide or soar.
[edit] Translations
to move in a way that lifts the bow of a boat out of the water
to glide

[edit] Etymology 4

From Old French plane, from Latin platanus, from Ancient Greek πλάτανος (platanos), from πλατύς (platus, “wide, broad”).

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plane (plural planes)

  1. (countable, botany) A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus.
  2. (Northern UK) A sycamore.
[edit] Translations
deciduous tree

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plane f.

  1. feminine form of plan

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plane

  1. first-person singular present indicative of planer
  2. third-person singular present indicative of planer
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of planer
  4. first-person singular present subjunctive of planer
  5. second-person singular imperative of planer

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plane

  1. First-person singular present of planen.
  2. First-person singular subjunctive I of planen.
  3. Third-person singular subjunctive I of planen.
  4. Imperative singular of planen.

[edit] Latin

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From plānus (“intelligible, clear”).

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plānē (not comparable)

  1. distinctly, intelligibly
  2. wholly, quite, thoroughly
  3. (in answering) certainly, absolutely, by all reason, beyond a doubt

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[edit] References

  • plane in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879

[edit] Swedish

[edit] Adjective

plane

  1. absolute definite natural masculine form of plan.
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