PLANE
What does "PLANE" mean?
A flat two-dimensional surface; also a powered aircraft.
Meanings
- A flat surface in which a straight line joining any two points lies wholly within it. Two lines in the same plane either meet or stay parallel. technical
- A powered fixed-wing aircraft; short for aeroplane or airplane. The plane lifted off the runway into low cloud.
- A level of existence, thought, or development. Their conversation moved onto a higher plane. figurative
- A carpenter's tool with a blade for shaving wood smooth. He ran the plane along the board until it was level.
- To smooth wood with such a tool, or to skim across a surface. The speedboat began to plane across the flat water.
Word origin
From Latin 'planus', flat or level (the geometric and tool senses); the aircraft sense is a 20th-century shortening of 'aeroplane', from Greek 'aēr' (air) plus the same flat-surface root.
Remember it
PLANE (flat) vs PLAIN (also flat land): the geometry/aircraft 'plane' ends in -ANE, like a smooth even surface.
A little poem
A flat field of math-
then wings make the field a sky,
and the sky a road.
haiku
Wordplay
- The carpenter's startup pitch was simple - he just wanted to plane things out, on every level.
What it teaches
The same flatness that grounds a board can lift a wing; what a thing does depends on how it meets the air.
Quick facts
What does PLANE mean?
A flat two-dimensional surface; also a powered aircraft.
Is PLANE a valid word?
Yes — PLANE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is PLANE?
PLANE has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does PLANE come from?
From Latin 'planus', flat or level (the geometric and tool senses); the aircraft sense is a 20th-century shortening of 'aeroplane', from Greek 'aēr' (air) plus the same flat-surface root.
What can PLANE teach us?
The same flatness that grounds a board can lift a wing; what a thing does depends on how it meets the air.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.