Word Meaning

Meaning of plane

- Any tree of the genus Platanus.
- Without elevations or depressions; even; level; flat; lying in, or constituting, a plane; as, a plane surface.
- 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.
- 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.
- A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate.
- 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.
- 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.
- To efface or remove.
- Figuratively, to make plain or smooth.

Crossword clue for plane

- Aircraft
- Airliner
- Boeing 747
- Carpenter's tool
- Carpenter’s tool
- Carpentry tool
- Carpentry tool used in penal settlement
- Carpentry tool used to make aircraft
- Fast powered craft
- imitator bird
- Jumbo or Airbus
- Level off
- Means of travel
- Panel redesigned aircraft
- Quiet back street used by carpenter
- Quiet part of road found at airport
- Smooth (timber)
- Wood-shaping tool
- Wood-trimming tool
- Woodwork tool