Synonyms: aeroplane, airplane, plane
Definition: an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets
Usage: the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane
Similar words: heavier-than-air craft
Definition: a non-buoyant aircraft that requires a source of power to hold it aloft and to propel it
Synonyms: plane, carpenter's plane, woodworking plane
Definition: a carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood
Usage: the cabinetmaker used a plane for the finish work
Similar words: edge tool
Definition: any cutting tool with a sharp cutting edge (as a chisel or knife or plane or gouge)
Similar words: hand tool
Definition: a tool used with workers' hands
Synonyms: plane, planer, planing machine
Definition: a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood
Similar words: power tool
Definition: a tool driven by a motor
Definition: (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape
Usage: 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
Definition: the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance
Usage: geometry is the mathematical science of shape
Synonyms: plane
Definition: a level of existence or development
Usage: he lived on a worldly plane
Similar words: level, stage, point, degree
Definition: a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
Usage: a remarkable degree of frankness; at what stage are the social sciences?
Definition: cut or remove with or as if with a plane
Usage: The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood
Synonyms: plane
Definition: make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane
Usage: plane the top of the door
Similar words: smooth, smoothen
Definition: make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing
Usage: smooth the surface of the wood
Definition: travel on the surface of water
Similar words: glide
Definition: move smoothly and effortlessly
Definition: having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another
Usage: a flat desk; acres of level farmland; a plane surface; skirts sewn with fine flat seams
Similar words: even
Definition: being level or straight or regular and without variation as e.g. in shape or texture; or being in the same plane or at the same height as something else (i.e. even with)
Usage: an even application of varnish; an even floor; the road was not very even; the picture is even with the window