Plane vs. Aeroplane

(Mathematics) A surface containing all the straight lines that connect any two points on it.

Variant of airplane.

A flat or level surface.

A powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings.

A level of development, existence, or achievement

An airfoil.

An airplane or hydroplane.

Any of various nymphalid butterflies, of various genera, having a slow gliding flight. Also called planes.

A supporting surface of an airplane; an airfoil or wing.

(intransitive) To fly in an aeroplane.

A carpenter's tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing and leveling wood.

(transitive) To transport by aeroplane.

A trowel-shaped tool for smoothing the surface of clay, sand, or plaster in a mold.

A light rigid plane used in aërial navigation to oppose sudden upward or downward movement in the air, as in gliding machines; specif., such a plane slightly inclined and driven forward as a lifting device in some flying machines. Also called airfoil.

The plane tree.

Hence, a heavier-than-air flying machine using such a device to provide lift. In a modern aeroplane, the airfoils are called the wings, and most of the lift is derived from these surfaces. In contrast to helicopters, the wings are fixed to the passenger compartment (airframe) and do not move relative to the frame; thus such a machine is called a fixed-wing aircraft. These machines are called monoplanes, biplanes, triplanes, or quadruplanes, according to the number of main supporting planes (wings) used in their construction. After 1940 few planes with more than one airfoil were constructed, and these are used by hobbyists or for special purposes. Being heavier than air they depend for their levitation on motion imparted by the thrust from either propellers driven by an engine, or, in a jet plane, by the reaction from a high-velocity stream of gases expelled rearward from a jet engine. They start from the ground by a run on small wheels or runners, and are guided by a steering apparatus consisting of horizontal and vertical movable planes, which usually form part of the wings or tail. There are many varieties of form and construction, which in some cases are known by the names of their inventors. In U.S., an aeroplane is usually called an airplane or plane.

(Mathematics) Of or being a figure lying in a plane

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

Flat; level.

To smooth or finish with a plane

To remove with a plane

To work with a plane.

To rise partly out of the water, as a hydroplane does at high speeds.

To soar or glide.

To travel by airplane.

Of a surface: flat or level.

A level or flat surface.

(geometry) A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane). Category:en:Surfaces

(anatomy) An imaginary plane which divides the body into two portions.

A level of existence or development.

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 airfoil, hydrofoil.)}}

Any of 17 designated ranges of 2¹⁶ (65,536) sequential code points each.

A tool for smoothing wood by removing thin layers from the surface.

An airplane; an aeroplane.

(entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies, of various genera, having a slow gliding flight.

(entomology) The butterfly Bindahara phocides, family Lycaenidae, of Asia and Australasia.

(countable) A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus.

(Northern UK) A sycamore.

To smooth (wood) with a plane.

To move in a way that lifts the bow out of the water.

To glide or soar.

Any tree of the genus Platanus.

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.

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.

A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate.

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.

Without elevations or depressions; even; level; flat; lying in, or constituting, a plane; as, a plane surface.

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.

To efface or remove.

Figuratively, to make plain or smooth.

Of a boat, to lift more or less out of the water while in motion, after the manner of a hydroplane; to hydroplane.

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

(mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape;

A level of existence or development;

A power tool for smoothing or shaping wood

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

Cut or remove with or as if with a plane;

Travel on the surface of water

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

Having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or lower than another;