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plane

English

  1. 🔊 having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another
    “a flat desk”
  2. 🔊 a carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood
    “the cabinetmaker used a plane for the finish work”
  3. 🔊 a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood
  4. 🔊 (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape
    “we will refer to the plane of the graph as the X-Y plane”
  5. 🔊 a level of existence or development
    “he lived on a worldly plane”
  6. 🔊 an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets
    “the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane”
  7. 🔊 cut or remove with or as if with a plane
    “The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood”
  8. 🔊 make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane
    “plane the top of the door”
  9. 🔊 travel on the surface of water

Spanish

  1. 🔊 cepillar to plane
  2. 🔊 plano plane, level
  3. 🔊 planear to plane, to glide (fly unpowered, of a bird or plane)

Similar words

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