planer

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See also: Planer and plañer

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

plane +‎ -er

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planer

  1. comparative form of plane: more plane

Noun[edit]

planer (plural planers)

  1. (woodworking) A tool which smooths a surface or makes one surface of a workpiece parallel to the tool's bed.
  2. (mechanical engineering) A large machine tool in which the workpiece is traversed linearly (by means of a reciprocating bed) beneath a single-point cutting tool. (Analogous to a shaper but larger and with the workpiece moving instead of the tool.) Planers can generate various shapes, but were most especially used to generate large, accurate flat surfaces. The planer is nowadays obsolescent, having been mostly superseded by large milling machines.
    • 1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 341:
      Besides the usual run of machines, planers, millers, automatics, centre lathes, cranes, etc., there were several power stations, the rolling mills for strip material and for 60 ft. rails, and all the steel furnaces with their complicated systems of flues. If variety is the spice of life, then there was plenty here.
  3. (archaic, printing) A wooden block used for forcing down the type in a form, and making the surface even.
    • 1825, Thomas Curson Hansard, Typographia, an Historical Sketch of the Origin and Progress of the Art of Printing:
      the compositor "planes down" the "forme," to make a the surface of the type stand flat and even, by blows of the mallet upon a piece of smooth wood laid upon the pages, called, from its use, "a planer;" and it is then ready for the pressman

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Etymology[edit]

From pla +‎ -er.

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planer (feminine planera, masculine plural planers, feminine plural planeres)

  1. flat, level
    Synonym: pla
  2. easy
    Synonym: fàcil
  3. simple
    Synonym: senzill

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French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From plain.

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  • IPA(key): /pla.ne/
  • (file)

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planer

  1. to glide, to hover
  2. to be entranced, to be mesmerized
  3. (slang, of a drug user) to be high
    en planant
    while high
  4. (slang) to be going well; to run smoothly

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planer

  1. inflection of plan:
    1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
    2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
    3. strong genitive plural

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

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planer m

  1. indefinite plural of plan

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planer

  1. imperative of planere

Serbo-Croatian[edit]

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  • IPA(key): /plǎneːr/
  • Hyphenation: pla‧ner

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plànēr m (Cyrillic spelling пла̀не̄р)

  1. planner

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Swedish[edit]

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planer

  1. indefinite plural of plan