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plane
noun
1 plane
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.
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Roget 251:
flatness
etc.
adj.;
smoothness
etc.
255.
plane;
level
etc.
213;
plate,
platter,
table,
tablet,
slab.
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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.
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Dutch: kist, toestel, vliegmachine, vliegtuig
Polish: samolot, aeroplan
2 plane
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
3 plane
A level of existence or development.
Dutch: vlak
4 plane
A power tool for smoothing or shaping wood.
synonyms: planer, planing machine.
Dutch: schaafmachine, schaaf, schaafbank
Polish: heblownica, heblownica stolarska, strugarka, heblarka
5 plane
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
verb
1 plane
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.
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Roget 255:
smooth,
smoothen†;
plane;
file;
mow,
shave;
level,
roll;
macadamize;
polish,
burnish,
calender†,
glaze;
iron,
hot-press,
mangle;
lubricate
etc.
(oil)
332.
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2 plane
Travel on the surface of water.
synonym: skim.
3 plane
Make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane.
adjective
1 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.
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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.
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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†.
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Polish: płaski
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