plane
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂-?
Proto-Indo-European *pel-?
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-der.
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-no-s
Proto-Italic *plānos
Latin plānus
Latin plānumder.
English plane
From Latin plānum (“flat surface”), a noun use of the neuter of plānus (“plain”). The word was introduced in the 17th century to distinguish the geometrical senses from the other senses of plain. Doublet of llano, piano, and plain.
Inflected forms:
form: planer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: planest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: planes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: planes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: planing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: planed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: planed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Of a surface: flat or level.
pos: adj
gloss: A level or flat surface.
pos: noun
gloss: A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane); a bounded portion thereof.
pos: noun
examples: Mirrors in the compartments have been canted out of the vertical plane to reduce reflections to the passengers when seated.
gloss: A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane); a bounded portion thereof.
pos: noun
gloss: A level of existence or development.
pos: noun
examples: astral plane
Nettie's stories about her experiences in Africa point out many parallels between the African and American ways of life. Her stories about the African lifestyle and family structure, in particular, point out the sexist and oppressive conditions that women are forced to submit to on a global plane.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of 17 designated ranges of 2¹⁶ (65,536) sequential code points each.
pos: noun
gloss: To smooth (wood) with a plane.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: plain
planar
planate
Derived words: planeness
abstract plane
aerospace plane
antiplane
aquaplane
astral plane
axial plane
backplane
bedding plane
bit plane
bow plane
Bragg plane
capping plane
Cartesian plane
centerplane
chase plane
compass plane
control plane
convexoplane
coordinate plane
coplane
data plane
datum plane
death plane
divisional plane
doomsday plane
ecliptic plane
eigenplane
emotional plane
equatorial plane
Euclidean plane
fairwater plane
false plane tree
Fano plane
fault plane
fighter plane
focal plane
forwarding plane
fracture plane
Frankfurt plane
ghost plane
gliding plane
gutter plane
half-plane
horizontal plane
hyperbolic plane
hyperplane
inclined plane
inplane
in-plane switching
interplane
intraplane
invariable plane
jack plane
jet plane
jointer plane
land the plane
Laplace plane
lead plane
London plane tree
mail plane
mainplane
median plane
mental plane
mesial plane
midplane
monoplane
Moufang plane
multiplane
nonplane
oblique plane
omniplane
orbital plane
paper plane
phase plane
phylloplane
physical plane
picture plane
plan ahead
planal
planation
plane angle
plane curve
plane fright
plane geometry
plane graph
plane iron
plane joint
plane-mate
plane mirror
plane of ecliptic
plane of existence
plane of insertion
plane of symmetry
plane-parallel
plane polarized light
plane sailing
planeswalker
plane table
plane tree
planetree
plane wave
planigon
projective plane
proof plane
quadruplane
rabbet plane
radical plane
real projective plane
reed plane
reglet plane
rhizoplane
rocket plane
scaleboard plane
sniffer plane
spiritual plane
S plane
spotter plane
spy plane
stern plane
subplane
symmetry plane
tangent plane
time plane
transaxial plane
transpyloric plane
user plane
view plane
waterplane
X-plane
zoo plane
biplane
microplane
planelike
sesquiplane
spaceplane
superplane
triplane
London plane
deplane
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: հարթություն
roman: hartʻutʻyun
lang: Azerbaijani
word: müstəvi
lang: Bulgarian
word: равнина
roman: ravnina
lang: Catalan
word: pla
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 平面
roman: píngmiàn
lang: Czech
word: rovina
lang: Czech
word: plocha
lang: Danish
word: plan
lang: Dutch
word: vlak
lang: Esperanto
word: ebeno
lang: Estonian
word: tasand
lang: Finnish
word: taso
lang: French
word: plan
lang: German
word: Ebene
lang: Greek
word: επίπεδο
roman: epípedo
lang: Hindi
word: समतल
roman: samtal
lang: Hungarian
word: sík
lang: Irish
word: plána
lang: Italian
word: piano
lang: Japanese
word: 平面
roman: heimen
lang: Kannada
word: ಸಮತಲ
roman: samatala
lang: Khmer
word: ផ្ទៃរាប
roman: phtɨyriəp
lang: Korean
word: 평면
roman: pyeongmyeon
lang: Latin
word: planum
lang: Latvian
word: plakne
lang: Lithuanian
word: plokštuma
lang: Malay
word: satah
lang: Norwegian
word: plan
lang: Polish
word: płaszczyzna
lang: Portuguese
word: plano
lang: Romanian
word: plan
lang: Russian
word: пло́скость
roman: plóskostʹ
lang: Spanish
word: plano
lang: Swedish
word: plan
lang: Tagalog
word: lapya
lang: Thai
word: ระนาบ
lang: Turkish
word: düzlem
lang: Vietnamese
word: mặt phẳng