plane

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How to sign: an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets
"the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane";

Similiar / Same: airplane, aeroplane

Categories: heavier-than-air craft

Within this category: airliner, amphibian, biplane, bomber, fighter, hangar queen, jet, monoplane, multiengine airplane, propeller plane, reconnaissance plane, seaplane, ski-plane, tanker plane, turbojet

plane

How to sign: having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or lower than another
"a flat desk"; "acres of level farmland"; "a plane surface";

Similiar / Same: flat, level

plane

How to sign: (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";

Similiar / Same: sheet

Categories: form, shape

Within this category: cartesian plane, facet plane, midplane, orbital plane, picture plane, tangent plane

plane

How to sign: cut or remove with or as if with a plane
"The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood";

Similiar / Same: shave

Categories: cut