Main entry: 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
Main entry: 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
Main entry: plane, planer, planing machine
Definition: a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood
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
Main entry: plane
Definition: a level of existence or development
Usage: he lived on a worldly plane
Definition: cut or remove with or as if with a plane
Usage: The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood
Main entry: plane
Definition: make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane
Usage: plane the top of the door
Definition: travel on the surface of water
Main entry: flat, plane, level
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