Plane

[pleɪn] or [plen]

解释:

(noun.) a carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood; 'the cabinetmaker used a plane for the finish work'.

(noun.) a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood.

(noun.) (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape; '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'.

(noun.) a level of existence or development; 'he lived on a worldly plane'.

(verb.) cut or remove with or as if with a plane; 'The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood'.

(verb.) make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane; 'plane the top of the door'.

(verb.) travel on the surface of water.

录入:奥维尔--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) Any tree of the genus Platanus.

(a.) Without elevations or depressions; even; level; flat; lying in, or constituting, a plane; as, a plane surface.

(a.) A surface, real or imaginary, in which, if any two points are taken, the straight line which joins them lies wholly in that surface; or a surface, any section of which by a like surface is a straight line; a surface without curvature.

(a.) An ideal surface, conceived as coinciding with, or containing, some designated astronomical line, circle, or other curve; as, the plane of an orbit; the plane of the ecliptic, or of the equator.

(a.) A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate.

(a.) A tool for smoothing boards or other surfaces of wood, for forming moldings, etc. It consists of a smooth-soled stock, usually of wood, from the under side or face of which projects slightly the steel cutting edge of a chisel, called the iron, which inclines backward, with an apperture in front for the escape of shavings; as, the jack plane; the smoothing plane; the molding plane, etc.

(a.) To make smooth; to level; to pare off the inequalities of the surface of, as of a board or other piece of wood, by the use of a plane; as, to plane a plank.

(a.) To efface or remove.

(a.) Figuratively, to make plain or smooth.

整理:劳拉

同义词及近义词：

a. Level, flat, even, smooth, plain.

整理:泰勒

解释:

n. a carpenter's tool for producing a level or smooth surface.—v.t. to make a surface (as of wood) level by means of a plane.—ns. Plā′ner a tool or machine for planing: a smooth wooden block used for levelling a form of type; Plān′ing-machine′ a machine for planing wood or metals.—v.t. Plan′ish to make smooth: to polish.

n. (geom.) a surface on which if any two points be taken the straight line joining them will lie entirely on the surface: (astron.) a surface thought of as bounded by the line round which a heavenly body moves: any flat or level surface: any incline on which coal is lowered by the effect of gravity: any grade of life or of development.—adj. having the character of a plane: pertaining to lying in or forming a plane.—v.t. to make plane or smooth.—adj. Plā′nary relating to a plane: flat.—n. Plane′-tā′ble a topographical instrument used in field-mapping and having a sighting-telescope for observing objects whose angles may be noted on a paper on the table of the instrument: an inclined table on which ore is dressed.—v.t. to survey with a plane-table.—ns. Plan′igraph an instrument for reducing or enlarging drawings; Planim′eter an instrument for measuring the area of a plane figure.—adjs. Planimet′ric -al.—n. Planim′etry the mensuration of plane surfaces.—adj. Planipet′alous having flat petals.—ns. Plan′isher a thin flat-ended tool used for smoothing tin-plate and brasswork: a workman who planishes esp. one who prepares copper-plates for engravers; Plan′isphere a sphere projected on a plane.—adjs. Planispher′ic; Plāno-con′cave plane on one side and concave on the other; Plā′no-con′ical plane on one side and conical on the other; Plā′no-con′vex plane on one side and convex on the other.—n. Planog′raphist a map-maker.—adj. Plā′no-horizon′tal having a plane horizontal surface or position.—ns. Planom′eter a plane surface used in machine-making as a gauge for plane surfaces; Planom′etry the measurement of plane surfaces.—adj. Plā′no-sub′ulate smooth and awl-shaped.—Plane angle an angle contained by two straight lines in a plane; Plane figure a figure all of whose points lie in one plane; Plane geometry the geometry of plane figures; Plane sailing the calculation of a ship's place in its course as if the earth were flat instead of spherical: easy work; Plane trigonometry that branch of trigonometry which treats of triangles described on a plane.—Inclined plane (see Incline); Perspective plane (see Perspective).

录入:奥利维尔