plane

plane is a 5-letter English word with 18 senses as noun, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any tree of the genus Platanus. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 10 · 18 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Any tree of the genus Platanus.
2. adjective. Without elevations or depressions; even; level; flat; lying in, or constituting, a plane; as, a plane surface.
3. adjective. 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.
4. adjective. 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.
5. adjective. A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate.
6. adjective. 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.
7. adjective. 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.
8. adjective. To efface or remove.
9. adjective. Figuratively, to make plain or smooth.
10. noun. an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets

    "the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane"

    Synonyms: aeroplane, airplane

11. noun. a carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood

    "the cabinetmaker used a plane for the finish work"

12. noun. a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood

    Synonyms: planer

13. noun. (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"

    Synonyms: sheet

14. noun. a level of existence or development

    "he lived on a worldly plane"

15. verb. cut or remove with or as if with a plane

    "The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood"

    Synonyms: shave

16. verb. make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane

    "plane the top of the door"

17. verb. travel on the surface of water

    Synonyms: skim

18. adjective. having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another

    "a flat desk"

    "acres of level farmland"

    Synonyms: flat, level

Synonyms

aeroplane, airplane, planer, sheet, shave, skim, flat, level

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in plane:

alpen, nepal, panel, penal, plena

Common word forms

planed, planer, planes, planing, planeness

Words from these letters

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