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plan⋅er

  [pley-ner]
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–noun
1. Carpentry. a power machine for removing the rough or excess surface from a board.
2. Metalworking. a machine for cutting flat surfaces, having a cutting tool supported by an overhead frame beneath which the work slides back and forth. Compare shaper (def. 2).
3. Typesetting. a block of smooth, hard wood for leveling the type in a chase by tapping with a mallet.
Origin:
1375–1425; late ME; see plane 2 , -er 1
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plane

1  [pleyn] noun, adjective, verb, planed, plan⋅ing.
–noun
1. a flat or level surface.
2. Geometry. a surface generated by a straight line moving at a constant velocity with respect to a fixed point.
3. Fine Arts. an area of a two-dimensional surface having determinate extension and spatial direction or position: oblique plane; horizontal plane.
4. a level of dignity, character, existence, development, or the like: a high moral plane.
5. Aeronautics.
a. an airplane or a hydroplane: to take a plane to Dallas.
b. a thin, flat or curved, extended section of an airplane or a hydroplane, affording a supporting surface.
6. Architecture. a longitudinal section through the axis of a column.
–adjective
7. flat or level, as a surface.
8. of or pertaining to planes or plane figures.
–verb (used without object)
9. to glide or soar.
10. (of a boat) to rise partly out of the water when moving at high speed.
11. Informal. to fly or travel in an airplane: We'll drive to Detroit and plane to Los Angeles.
Origin:
1400–50 for sense “to soar”; 1640–50 for n. and adj. senses; (n.) < L plānum flat surface (n. use of plānus flat); (adj.) < L plānus; first used to distinguish the geometrical senses formerly belonging to plain 1 ; in def. 5, shortened form of airplane, aeroplane, or hydroplane; (v.) late ME planen (of a bird) to soar (cf. MF planer); akin to plain 1

Related forms:
planeness, noun

Synonyms:
4. stratum, stage. 7. smooth, even, flush.
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plan·er   (plā'nər)   
n.  

  1. One that planes, especially a machine tool that is used to smooth or finish the surfaces of wood or metal.

  2. Printing A smooth block of wood used to level a form of type.

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Cultural Dictionary

plane

A geometrical location having only two dimensions — length and width (no height). (See coordinates and plane geometry.)

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Word Origin & History

plane  (1)
"flat surface," 1604, from L. plantum "flat surface," properly neut. of adj. planus "flat, level, plain, clear," from PIE *pla-no- (cf. Lith. plonas "thin;" Celtic *lanon "plain;" perhaps also Gk. pelanos "sacrificial cake, a mixture offered to the gods, offering (of meal, honey, and oil) poured or spread"), suffixed form of base *pele- "to spread out, broad, flat" (cf. O.C.S. polje "flat land, field," Rus. polyi "open;" O.E., O.H.G. feld, M.Du. veld "field"). Fig. sense is attested from 1850. The verb meaning "soar, glide on motionless wings" is first recorded 1611, from M.Fr. planer (16c.), from L. planum on notion of bird gliding with flattened wings. Of boats, etc., "to skim over the surface of water" it is first found 1913.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: plane
Pronunciation: 'plAn
Function: noun
1 a : a surface that contains at least three points not all in a straight line and is such thata line drawn through any two points in it lies wholly in the surface b : an imaginary plane used to identify parts of the body or a part of the skull —see FRANKFORT HORIZONTAL PLANE, MIDSAGITTALPLANE
2 : a stage in surgical anesthesia plane of anesthesia is maintained with cyclopropane —Journal of the American MedicalAssociation>
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Medical Dictionary

plane 1 (plān)
n.

  1. A surface containing all the straight lines that connect any two points on it.

  2. A flat or level surface.

  3. An imaginary surface formed by extension through any axis of the body or through two definite points on the body.

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