Noun
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a carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood
"the cabinetmaker used a plane for the finish work"
- carpenter's plane - woodworking plane -
a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood
- planing machine -
a level of existence or development
"he lived on a worldly plane"
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(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"
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an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets
"the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane"
Verb
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make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane
"plane the top of the door"
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travel on the surface of water
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cut or remove with or as if with a plane
"The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood"
Adjective
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having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another
"a flat desk"
"acres of level farmland"
"a plane surface"
"skirts sewn with fine flat seams"