plane
verb/pleɪn/
/pleɪn/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they plane | /pleɪn/ /pleɪn/ |
| he / she / it planes | /pleɪnz/ /pleɪnz/ |
| past simple planed | /pleɪnd/ /pleɪnd/ |
| past participle planed | /pleɪnd/ /pleɪnd/ |
| -ing form planing | /ˈpleɪnɪŋ/ /ˈpleɪnɪŋ/ |
- [transitive] to make a piece of wood smoother or flatter with a plane
- plane something Plane the surface down first.
- plane something + adj. Then plane the wood smooth.
Homophones plain | planeplain plane/pleɪn//pleɪn/- plain adjective
- She likes plain food, without sauces or cheese.
- plain noun
- Wheat is still grown on the Lombardy plain.
- plain adverb (informal)
- That's just plain silly!
- plane noun
- They recently flew into London on a private plane.
- plane verb
- You may need to plane the surface for a smoother fit.
- [intransitive] (of a bird) to fly without moving the wings, especially high up in the air
- [intransitive] (of a boat, etc.) to move quickly across water, only just touching the surface
- The boat planed past in clouds of spray.
Word Originverb sense 1 Middle English: from a variant of obsolete French plaine ‘planing instrument’, from late Latin plana (in the same sense), from Latin planare ‘make level’, from planus ‘plain, level’. verb senses 2 to 3 early 17th cent.: from Latin planum ‘flat surface’, neuter of the adjective planus ‘plain’. The adjective was suggested by French plan(e) ‘flat’. The word was introduced to differentiate the geometrical senses, previously expressed by plain, from its other meanings.
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