plane

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Adjective 1.2.1.1 Translations 1.2.2 Noun 1.2.2.1 Translations 1.2.3 Related terms 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.3.1.1 Translations 1.3.1.2 See also 1.3.2 Verb 1.3.2.1 Translations 1.4 Etymology 3 1.4.1 Noun 1.4.1.1 Derived terms 1.4.1.2 Translations 1.4.2 Verb 1.4.2.1 Translations 1.5 Etymology 4 1.5.1 Noun 1.5.1.1 Translations 2 French 2.1 Verb 3 German 3.1 Verb 4 Latin 4.1 Etymology 4.2 Adverb 4.2.1 Related terms 4.3 References

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[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /pleɪn/, /pl̩eɪn/
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• Rhymes: -eɪn
• Homophones: 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.

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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.

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• plain
• planar

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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)

1. (countable) A tool for smoothing wood by removing thin layers from the surface.

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• rhykenologist

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to 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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Abbreviated from aeroplane.

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plane (plural planes)

1. An airplane; an aeroplane.

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• floatplane
• planespotter/plane spotter/plane-spotter
• plane spotting
• seaplane

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to 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.

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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)

1. (countable) (botany) A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus.
2. A plane tree.
3. (Northern UK) A sycamore.

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plane

1. first person and third person indicative and subjunctive of planer, glide

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plane

1. First person singular simple present form of planen.

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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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• plānus

[edit] References

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