Meaning & Definition of Plane in English

1. An aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets

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

2. (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"

3. A level of existence or development

• "He lived on a worldly plane"

4. A power tool for smoothing or shaping wood

5. A carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood

• "The cabinetmaker used a plane for the finish work"

1. Cut or remove with or as if with a plane

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

2. Travel on the surface of water

3. Make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane

• "Plane the top of the door"

1. Having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another

• "A flat desk"

• "Acres of level farmland"

• "A plane surface"

• "Skirts sewn with fine flat seams"