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Plane 1Definition: Any tree of the genus Platanus.
Plane 2Definition: Without elevations or depressions; even; level; flat; lying in, or constituting, a plane; as, a plane surface. Plane 3Definition: A surface, real or imaginary, in which, if any two points are taken, the straight line which joins them lies wholly in that surface; or a surface, any section of which by a like surface is a straight line; a surface without curvature. Plane 4Definition: An ideal surface, conceived as coinciding with, or containing, some designated astronomical line, circle, or other curve; as, the plane of an orbit; the plane of the ecliptic, or of the equator. Plane 5Definition: A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate. Plane 6Definition: A tool for smoothing boards or other surfaces of wood, for forming moldings, etc. It consists of a smooth-soled stock, usually of wood, from the under side or face of which projects slightly the steel cutting edge of a chisel, called the iron, which inclines backward, with an apperture in front for the escape of shavings; as, the jack plane; the smoothing plane; the molding plane, etc. Plane 7Definition: To make smooth; to level; to pare off the inequalities of the surface of, as of a board or other piece of wood, by the use of a plane; as, to plane a plank. Plane 8Definition: To efface or remove. Plane 9Definition: Figuratively, to make plain or smooth. plane 10Definition: an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets; "the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane" plane 11Definition: a carpenter''s hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood; "the cabinetmaker used a plane for the finish work" plane 12Definition: a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood plane 13Definition: (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" plane 14Definition: a level of existence or development; "he lived on a worldly plane" plane 15Definition: cut or remove with or as if with a plane; "The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood" plane 16Definition: make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter''s plane; "plane the top of the door" plane 17Definition: travel on the surface of water plane 18Definition: having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or lower than another; "a flat desk"; "acres of level farmland"; "a plane surface"
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