An aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets:
— The flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane.

synonyms: aeroplane, airplane.

Roget 266: travel; traveling etc. v.. wayfaring, campaigning.    journey, excursion, expedition, tour, trip, grand tour, circuit, peregrination, discursion^†, ramble, pilgrimage, hajj, trek, course, ambulation^†, march, walk, promenade, constitutional, stroll, saunter, tramp, jog trot, turn, stalk, perambulation; noctambulation^†, noctambulism; somnambulism; outing, ride, drive, airing, jaunt.    equitation, horsemanship, riding, manege [Fr.], ride and tie; basophobia^†.    roving, vagrancy, pererration^†; marching and countermarching; nomadism; vagabondism, vagabondage; hoboism [U.S.]; gadding; flit, flitting, migration; emigration, immigration, demigration^†, intermigration^†; wanderlust.    plan, itinerary, guide; handbook, guidebook, road book; Baedeker^†, Bradshaw, Murray; map, road map, transportation guide, subway map.    procession, cavalcade, caravan, file, cortege, column.    [Organs and instruments of locomotion] vehicle etc. 272; automobile, train, bus, airplane, plane, autobus, omnibus, subway, motorbike, dirt bike, off-road vehicle, van, minivan, motor scooter, trolley, locomotive; legs, feet, pegs, pins, trotters.    traveler etc. 268.    depot [U.S.], railway station, station.    ... show more

Roget 251: flatness etc. adj.; smoothness etc. 255.    plane; level etc. 213; plate, platter, table, tablet, slab.    ... show more

Roget 213: horizontality^†; flatness; level, plane; stratum etc. 204; dead level, dead flat; level plane.    recumbency, lying down etc. v.; reclination^†, decumbence^†; decumbency^†, discumbency^†; proneness etc. adj.; accubation^†, supination^†, resupination^†, prostration; azimuth.    plain, floor, platform, bowling green; cricket ground; croquet ground, croquet lawn; billiard table; terrace, estrade^†, esplanade, parterre.    [flat land area] table land, plateau, ledge; butte; mesa (plain) 344.    [instrument to measure horizontality] level, spirit level.    ... show more

Dutch: kist, toestel, vliegmachine, vliegtuig
Polish: samolot, aeroplan

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.

synonym: sheet.

Dutch: vlak
Polish: płaszczyzna

A level of existence or development.

Dutch: vlak

A power tool for smoothing or shaping wood.

synonyms: planer, planing machine.

Dutch: schaafmachine, schaaf, schaafbank
Polish: heblownica, heblownica stolarska, strugarka, heblarka

A carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood:
— The cabinetmaker used a plane for the finish work.

synonyms: carpenter's plane, woodworking plane.

Polish: strug, hebel

Cut or remove with or as if with a plane.

synonym: shave.

Roget 305: ascend, rise, mount, arise, uprise; go up, get up, work one's way up, start up; shoot up, go into orbit; float up; bubble up; aspire.    climb, clamber, ramp, scramble, escalade^†, surmount; shin, shinny, shinney; scale, scale the heights.    [cause to go up] raise, elevate etc. 307.    go aloft, fly aloft; tower, soar, take off; spring up, pop up, jump up, catapult upwards, explode upwards; hover, spire, plane, swim, float, surge; leap etc. 309.    ... show more

Roget 255: smooth, smoothen^†; plane; file; mow, shave; level, roll; macadamize; polish, burnish, calender^†, glaze; iron, hot-press, mangle; lubricate etc. (oil) 332.    ... show more

Travel on the surface of water.

synonym: skim.

Make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane.

Having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another:
— A plane surface.

synonyms: flat, level.

Roget 255: smooth; polished etc. v.; leiodermatous^†, slick, velutinous^†; even; level etc. 213; plane etc. (flat) 251; sleek, glossy; silken, silky; lanate^†, downy, velvety; glabrous, slippery, glassy, lubricous, oily, soft, unwrinkled^†; smooth as glass, smooth as ice, smooth as monumental alabaster, smooth as velvet, smooth as oil; slippery as an eel; woolly etc. (feathery) 256.    ... show more

Roget 251: flat, plane, even, flush, scutiform^†, discoid; level etc. (horizontal) 213; flat as a pancake, flat as a fluke, flat as a flounder, flat as a board, flat as my hand.    ... show more

Roget 213: horizontal, level, even, plane; flat etc. 251; flat as a billiard table, flat as a bowling green; alluvial; calm, calm as a mill pond; smooth, smooth as glass.    recumbent, decumbent, procumbent, accumbent^†; lying etc. v.; prone, supine, couchant, jacent^†, prostrate, recubant^†.    ... show more

Polish: płaski