“Planes” is a form of
plane
/pleɪn/ adjective, noun, verb
Also a form of airplane
Forms planer planest planes planing planed 'plane
- adjective Of a surface: flat or level.
- noun A level or flat surface.
- noun (geometry) A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane); a bounded portion thereof.
- noun (anatomy) An imaginary plane which divides the body into two portions.
- noun A level of existence or development. “astral plane”
- noun 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.
- noun (computing, Unicode) Any of 17 designated ranges of 2¹⁶ (65,536) sequential code points each.
- noun (countable, carpentry) A tool for smoothing wood by removing thin layers from the surface.
- verb (transitive, carpentry) To smooth (wood) with a plane.
- noun An airplane; an aeroplane. “on a plane”
- noun (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies, of various genera, having a slow gliding flight.
- noun (entomology) The butterfly Bindahara phocides, family Lycaenidae, of Asia and Australasia.
- verb (nautical, of a boat) To move in a way that lifts the bow out of the water.
- verb To glide or soar.
- noun (countable) A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus.
- noun (Northern UK) A sycamore.
Synonyms
aeroplane airplane sheet planer planing machine carpenter's plane woodworking plane shave skim flat level
Etymology
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, plain, and plan.
From Middle English plane, plaine, from Anglo-Norman plaine, from Late Latin plāna (“planing tool”).
From Middle English plane, borrowed from Old French plane, from Latin platanus, from Ancient Greek πλάτανος (plátanos), from πλατύς (platús, “wide, broad”).
Webster’s 1913
- noun Any tree of the genus Platanus.
- adjective Without elevations or depressions; even; level; flat; lying in, or constituting, a plane; as, a plane surface.
- noun 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.
- noun 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.
Etymology [F., fr. L. platanus, Gr. Place, and cf. Platane, Plantain the tree.]
Etymology [L. planus: cf. F. plan. See Plan, a.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “plane”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details