plane

Definitions of plane in various dictionaries:

noun - an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets

noun - (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape

noun - a level of existence or development

noun - a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood

noun - a carpenter's hand tool with an adj ustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood

verb - cut or remove with or as if with a plane

verb - travel on the surface of water

verb - make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane

adj - having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another

A surface containing all the straight lines that connect any two points on it.

A flat or level surface.

A level of development, existence, or achievement: scholarship on a high plane.

An airplane or a hydroplane.

A supporting surface of an airplane; an airfoil or a wing.

Of or being a figure lying in a plane: a plane curve.

Flat; level.

A carpenter’s tool with an adj ustable blade for smoothing and leveling wood.

A trowel-shaped tool for smoothing the surface of clay, sand, or plaster in a mold.

To smooth or finish with or as if with a plane.

To remove with a plane: plane off the rough edges on a board.

To work with a plane.

To act as a plane.

To rise partly out of the water, as a hydroplane does at high speeds.

To soar or glide.

To travel by airplane.

The plane tree.

verb - to make smooth or even