Plane
[pleɪn] or [plen]
Definition
(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.
Editor: Orville--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Level, flat, even, smooth, plain.
Typist: Tyler
Definition
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).
Checker: Olivier
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you use a plane, denotes that your liberality and successful efforts will be highly commended. To see carpenters using their planes, denotes that you will progress smoothly in your undertakings. To dream of seeing planes, denotes congeniality and even success. A love of the real, and not the false, is portended by this dream.
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Examples
- The whole game was one of subtle inter-suggestivity, and they wanted to keep it on the plane of suggestion. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They watched the plane moving high and silvery and steady in the sunlight. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The economic conflicts are at once raised to a plane of research, experiment and honest deliberation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And there could be no obligation, because there is no standard for action there, because no understanding has been reaped from that plane. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Mr. Darnay presented himself while they were sitting under the plane-tree, but he was only One. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Must you ever go on down the ages to your final extinction but little above the plane of the dumb brutes that serve you! Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- We could take thy happiness in a plane, he said absently. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The earlier aviators had found that two planes, or double-deckers, gave the best results. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The planes should have come an hour ago, he said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Then the planes machine-gunned the hilltop and went away. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Only if the planes do not come. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He lay back and sighted with the automatic rifle as the planes came on steadily. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Again, the experiments demonstrated that the force necessary to maintain at high velocity an apparatus consisting of planes and motors could be produced by means already available. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- No one spoke about these planes last night? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The planing machine is organized in various shapes for different uses. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Conspicuous among the early planing machine patents in the United States was that granted to William Woodworth, December 27, 1828. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The planing machine of Muir, of Glasgow, British patent No. 5,502, of 1827, was designed for making boards for flooring, and represented a considerable advance in the art. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He therein also described a machine for planing metal. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- All this time Mr. Guppy was either planing his forehead with his handkerchief or tightly rubbing the palm of his left hand with the palm of his right. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- This is the versatile Jack-of-all-work in the planing mill. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- But it needed the invention of the slide-rest and its application to metal-turning lathes to suggest and render successful metal-planing machines. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- When furnished with an eighty horse-power motor, more suited to its increased weight, the aerodrome planed easily over the water in more prolonged flight. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Surely the straight, smooth, pure white turnpikes are jack-planed and sandpapered every day. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The frame or chase of type was fixed on this table, and when inked and with the paper laid in place, was slid under the platen, which was a smooth planed board. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The bed stock is cut into strips, planed on all sides, and tongued and grooved on the widest sides. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The bed is then planed its entire length, sandpapered, shellaced and polished. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Sometimes a flat surface a few inches long is planed on the circumference of the cue, extending up from the butt end and a mother-of-pearl name plate is sunk into the handle. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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