PLANE

PLA ·NE 1 syllable

B1 · Intermediate 📏 5 letters 🎲 Scrabble 7 ✅ valid word

Useful in everyday and work contexts.

noun
  1. an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets
  2. (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape
  3. a level of existence or development
  4. a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood

💬 Examples

  • "the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane"
  • "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"
  • "he lived on a worldly plane"

🔗 Similar words

airplaneaeroplanesheetplanerplaning_machinecarpenter's_plane
verb
  1. cut or remove with or as if with a plane
  2. travel on the surface of water
  3. make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane

💬 Examples

  • "The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood"
  • "plane the top of the door"

🔗 Similar words

shaveskim
adjective
  1. having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another

💬 Examples

  • "a flat desk"
  • "acres of level farmland"

🔗 Similar words

flatlevel
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