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planes

 
Noun plane has 5 senses
  1. 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:
     airliner; amphibian, amphibious aircraft; biplane; bomber; fighter, fighter aircraft, attack aircraft; hangar queen; jet, jet plane, jet-propelled plane; monoplane; multiengine airplane, multiengine plane; propeller plane; reconnaissance plane; seaplane, hydroplane; ski-plane; tanker plane; turbojet, turboprop
  2. 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:
     cartesian plane; facet plane; midplane, midline; orbital plane; picture plane; tangent plane
  3. plane - a level of existence or development; "he lived on a worldly plane"
    --3 is a kind of
    degree, level, stage, point
  4. plane, planer, planing machine - a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood
    --4 is a kind of power tool
    Derived forms: verb plane3, verb plane1
  5. 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:
     beading plane; block plane; bullnose, bullnosed plane; chamfer plane; circular plane, compass plane; combination plane; dovetail plane; fore plane; jack plane; jointer, jointer plane, jointing plane, long plane; match plane, tonguing and grooving plane; openside plane, rabbet plane; router plane; scrub plane; smooth plane, smoothing plane
    Derived forms: verb plane3, verb plane1
Verb plane has 3 senses
  1. plane, shave - cut or remove with or as if with a plane; "The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood"
    --1 is one way to cut
    Derived forms: noun plane5, noun plane4, noun planer1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  2. plane, skim - travel on the surface of water
    --2 is one way to glide
    Sample sentence:
    Something is ----ing PP
  3. plane - make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane; "plane the top of the door"
    --3 is one way to
    smooth, smoothen
    Derived forms: noun plane5, noun plane4, noun planation1, noun planer1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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