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1. An aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets
   - airplane [N. Amer], aeroplane [Brit]
    
2. (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"
   - sheet
    
3. A level of existence or development
   "he lived on a worldly plane"
    
4. A power tool for smoothing or shaping wood
   - planer, planing machine
    
5. A carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood
   "the cabinetmaker used a plane for the finish work"
   - carpenter's plane, woodworking plane
    
6. Any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits
   - plane tree, sycamore, platan

1. Cut or remove with or as if with a plane
   - shave
    
2. Travel on the surface of water
   - skim
    
3. Make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane
   "plane the top of the door"

1. Having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another
   "a plane surface"
   - flat, level

Sounds like: plain

Derived forms: planed, planing, planes

See also: even, planar, planation, planeness

Type of: cut, degree, edge tool, form, glide, hand tool, heavier-than-air craft, level, point, power tool, shape, smooth, smoothen, stage, tree

Part of: genus Platanus, Platanus

Encyclopedia: Plane