plane

See also: Plane, pláne, plané, plañe, and Pläne

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pleɪn/
  • Audio - 'a plane' (UK)(file)
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  • Rhymes: -eɪn
  • Homophone: plain

Etymology 1

From Latin planum (“flat surface”), a noun use of the neuter of planus (“plain”). The word was introduced in the 17th century to distinguish the geometrical senses from the other senses of plain.

Adjective

plane (comparative planer, superlative planest)

  1. Of a surface: flat or level.
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Noun

plane (plural planes)

  1. A level or flat surface.
  2. (geometry) A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane).
  3. A level of existence or development. (eg, astral plane)
  4. A roughly flat, thin, often moveable structure used to create lateral force by the flow of air or water over its surface, found on aircraft, submarines, etc.
  5. (computing, Unicode) Any of a number of designated ranges of sequential code points.
  6. (anatomy) An imaginary plane which divides the body into two portions.
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Etymology 2

From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French, from Late Latin plana (“planing tool”), from plano (“to level”)

Noun

a rebate plane

plane (plural planes)

  1. (countable) A tool for smoothing wood by removing thin layers from the surface.
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Verb

plane (third-person singular simple present planes, present participle planing, simple past and past participle planed)

  1. (transitive) To smooth (wood) with a plane.
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Etymology 3

Abbreviated from aeroplane.

Noun

plane (plural planes)

  1. An airplane; an aeroplane.
    • 2013 September 6, Tom Cheshire, “Solar-powered travel”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 13, page 34:
      The plane is travelling impossibly slowly – 30km an hour – when it gently noses up and leaves the ground. With air beneath them, the rangy wings seem to gain strength; the fuselage that on the ground seemed flimsy becomes elegant, like a crane vaunting in flight. It seems not to fly, though, so much as float.
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Verb

plane (third-person singular simple present planes, present participle planing, simple past and past participle planed)

  1. (nautical) To move in a way that lifts the bow of a boat out of the water.
  2. To glide or soar.
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Etymology 4

Borrowed from Old French plane, from Latin platanus, from Ancient Greek πλάτανος (plátanos), from πλατύς (platús, “wide, broad”).

Noun

plane (plural planes)

  1. (countable) A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus.
  2. (Northern UK) A sycamore.
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French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /plan/
  • Homophone: planes

Adjective

plane

  1. feminine singular of plan

Verb

plane

  1. first-person singular present indicative of planer
  2. third-person singular present indicative of planer
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of planer
  4. first-person singular present subjunctive of planer
  5. second-person singular imperative of planer

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German

Verb

plane

  1. First-person singular present of planen.
  2. First-person singular subjunctive I of planen.
  3. Third-person singular subjunctive I of planen.
  4. Imperative singular of planen.

Latin

Etymology

From plānus (“intelligible, clear”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈplaː.neː/, [ˈpɫaː.neː]

Adverb

plānē (not comparable)

  1. distinctly, intelligibly
  2. wholly, quite, thoroughly
  3. (in answering) certainly, absolutely, by all reason, beyond a doubt

Descendants

References

  • plane in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • plane in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • plane in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • plane in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to speak openly, straightforwardly: plane, aperte dicere
    • to banish all sad thoughts: omnem luctum plane abstergere

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

plane

  1. singular definite of plan
  2. plural of plan

Portuguese

Verb

plane

  1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of planar
  2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of planar
  3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of planar
  4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of planar

Swedish

Adjective

plane

  1. absolute definite natural masculine form of plan.
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