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Noun plane has 5 senses
- airplane, aeroplane, plane - an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets; "the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane"
--1 is a kind of heavier-than-air craft
--1 has parts: | accelerator, accelerator pedal, gas pedal, gas, throttle, gun; escape hatch; fuselage; hood, bonnet, cowl, cowling; landing gear; navigation light; pod, fuel pod; radome, radar dome; windshield, windscreen; wing |
--1 has particulars:
- plane, sheet - (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"
--2 is a kind of shape, form
--2 has particulars:
- plane - a level of existence or development; "he lived on a worldly plane"
--3 is a kind of degree, level, stage, point
- plane, planer, planing machine - a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood
--4 is a kind of power tool
- plane, carpenter's plane, woodworking plane - a carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood; "the cabinetmaker used a plane for the finish work"
--5 is a kind of edge tool; hand tool
--5 has particulars:
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