plane
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- IPA(key): /pleɪn/, [pʰl̥eɪn]
Audio - 'a plane' (UK) (file) Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪn
- Homophone: plain
Etymology 1Edit
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, and plain.
AdjectiveEdit
plane (comparative planer, superlative planest)
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NounEdit
plane (plural planes)
- A level or flat surface.
- (geometry) A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane).
- (anatomy) An imaginary plane which divides the body into two portions.
- A level of existence or development.
- astral plane
- 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. (Compare wing, airfoil, hydrofoil.)
- (computing, Unicode) Any of a number of designated ranges of sequential code points.
HyponymsEdit
- (mathematics): real plane, complex plane
- (anatomy): coronal plane, frontal plane, sagittal plane, transverse plane
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DescendantsEdit
- → Irish: plána
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Etymology 2Edit
From Middle English plane, plaine, from Anglo-Norman plaine, from Late Latin plāna (“planing tool”).
NounEdit
plane (plural planes)
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VerbEdit
plane (third-person singular simple present planes, present participle planing, simple past and past participle planed)
- (transitive) To smooth (wood) with a plane.
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Etymology 3Edit
NounEdit
plane (plural planes)
- An airplane; an aeroplane.
- 2013 September 6, Tom Cheshire, “Solar-powered travel”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 13, page 34:
- The plane is travelling impossibly slowly – 30km an hour – when it gently noses up and leaves the ground. With air beneath them, the rangy wings seem to gain strength; the fuselage that on the ground seemed flimsy becomes elegant, like a crane vaunting in flight. It seems not to fly, though, so much as float.
- (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies, of various genera, having a slow gliding flight.
- Synonym: aeroplane
- (entomology) The butterfly Bindahara phocides, family Lycaenidae, of Asia and Australasia.
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VerbEdit
plane (third-person singular simple present planes, present participle planing, simple past and past participle planed)
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Etymology 4Edit
From Middle English plane, borrowed from Old French plane, from Latin platanus, from Ancient Greek πλάτανος (plátanos), from πλατύς (platús, “wide, broad”).
NounEdit
plane (plural planes)
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Further readingEdit
AnagramsEdit
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
plane
VerbEdit
plane
- first-person singular present indicative of planer
- third-person singular present indicative of planer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of planer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of planer
- second-person singular imperative of planer
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GermanEdit
PronunciationEdit
Audio (file)
VerbEdit
plane
- inflection of planen:
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From plānus (“intelligible, clear”).
PronunciationEdit
AdverbEdit
plānē (comparative plānius, superlative plānissimē)
- plainly (to the senses or understanding), distinctly, intelligibly
- (emphasising correctness) clearly, obviously
- (also used as an affirmative answer)
- wholly, utterly, thoroughly, quite
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Hungarian: pláne
ReferencesEdit
- “plānē” on page 1526 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
Further readingEdit
- plane in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- plane in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- plane in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- plane in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to speak openly, straightforwardly: plane, aperte dicere
- to banish all sad thoughts: omnem luctum plane abstergere
- to speak openly, straightforwardly: plane, aperte dicere
AnagramsEdit
Norwegian NynorskEdit
AdjectiveEdit
plane
PortugueseEdit
VerbEdit
plane
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of planar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of planar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of planar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of planar
SwedishEdit
AdjectiveEdit
plane
- absolute definite natural masculine form of plan.