ENGLISH: plane - CREOLE: avyon



Overview of noun plane



The noun plane has 5 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)



1. (21) airplane, aeroplane, 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")

2. (16) plane, sheet -- ((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")

3. (3) plane -- (a level of existence or development; "he lived on a worldly plane")

4. plane, planer, planing machine -- (a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood)

5. plane, carpenter's plane, woodworking plane -- (a carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood; "the cabinetmaker used a plane for the finish work")



Overview of verb plane



The verb plane has 3 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)



1. (2) plane, shave -- (cut or remove with or as if with a plane; "The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood")

2. plane, skim -- (travel on the surface of water)

3. plane -- (make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane; "plane the top of the door")



Overview of adj plane



The adj plane has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)



1. (2) flat, level, plane -- (having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another; "a flat desk"; "acres of level farmland"; "a plane surface"; "skirts sewn with fine flat seams")

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