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Noun | 1. | ![]() circumnavigation - traveling around something (by ship or plane); "Magellan's circumnavigation of the earth proved that it is a globe" accelerator, accelerator pedal, gas pedal, throttle, gas, gun - a pedal that controls the throttle valve; "he stepped on the gas" airliner - a commercial airplane that carries passengers amphibious aircraft, amphibian - an airplane designed to take off and land on water biplane - old fashioned airplane; has two wings one above the other bomber - a military aircraft that drops bombs during flight defroster, deicer - heater that removes ice or frost (as from a windshield or a refrigerator or the wings of an airplane) delta wing - an airplane with wings that give it the appearance of an isosceles triangle escape hatch - hatchway that provides a means of escape in an emergency attack aircraft, fighter aircraft, fighter - a high-speed military or naval airplane designed to destroy enemy aircraft in the air fuselage - the central body of an airplane that is designed to accommodate the crew and passengers (or cargo) hangar queen - an airplane with a bad maintenance record heavier-than-air craft - a non-buoyant aircraft that requires a source of power to hold it aloft and to propel it cowl, cowling, bonnet, hood - protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine; "there are powerful engines under the hoods of new cars"; "the mechanic removed the cowling in order to repair the plane's engine" dip circle, inclinometer - a measuring instrument for measuring the angle of magnetic dip (as from an airplane) landing gear - an undercarriage that supports the weight of the plane when it is on the ground monoplane - an airplane with a single wing multiengine airplane, multiengine plane - a plane with two or more engines navigation light - light on an airplane that indicates the plane's position and orientation; red light on the left (port) wing tip and green light on the right (starboard) wing tip propeller plane - an airplane that is driven by a propeller radar dome, radome - a housing for a radar antenna; transparent to radio waves reconnaissance plane - a military airplane used to gain information about an enemy roll-on roll-off - a method of transport (as a ferry or train or plane) that vehicles roll onto at the beginning and roll off of at the destination hydroplane, seaplane - an airplane that can land on or take off from water; "the designer of marine aircraft demonstrated his newest hydroplane" ski-plane - an airplane equipped with skis so it can land on a snowfield tanker plane - an airplane constructed to transport chemicals that can be dropped in order to fight a forest fire windscreen, windshield - transparent screen (as of glass) to protect occupants of a vehicle wing - one of the horizontal airfoils on either side of the fuselage of an airplane log - a written record of events on a voyage (of a ship or plane) seat, place - a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane); "he booked their seats in advance"; "he sat in someone else's place" highjacker, hijacker - someone who uses force to take over a vehicle (especially an airplane) in order to reach an alternative destination passenger, rider - a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it drift - the gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane) leeway - (of a ship or plane) sideways drift atomic number 22, Ti, titanium - a light strong grey lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong lightweight alloys (as for airplane parts); the main sources are rutile and ilmenite prang - crash hunt - yaw back and forth about a flight path; "the plane's nose yawed" astern - (of a ship or an airplane) behind; "we dropped her astern on the end of a seven-inch manilla, and she laid comfortably on the ebb tide" |
2. | plane - (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" shape, form - the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance; "geometry is the mathematical science of shape" math, mathematics, maths - a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement Cartesian plane - a plane in which all points can be described in Cartesian coordinates facet plane - the plane of a facet of an object (as of a cube) orbital plane - (astronomy) the plane on which a body is orbiting picture plane - the plane that is in the foreground of a drawing or painting; coextensive with but different from the objective surface of the work tangent plane - the plane that contains all the lines tangent to a specific point on a surface | |
3. | plane - a level of existence or development; "he lived on a worldly plane" | |
4. | ![]() power tool - a tool driven by a motor | |
5. | ![]() beading plane - a plane with a concave blade for making moulding with beadwork block plane - a small plane used on end grains of wood bullnose, bullnosed plane - a small carpenter's plane with the cutting edge near the front chamfer plane - a plane that makes a beveled edge circular plane, compass plane - a plane with a flexible face that can plane concave or convex surfaces combination plane - a woodworking plane that has interchangeable cutters of various shapes dovetail plane - a woodworking plane designed to make the grooves for dovetail joints edge tool - any cutting tool with a sharp cutting edge (as a chisel or knife or plane or gouge) fore plane - a carpenter's plane intermediate between a jack plane and a jointer plane hand tool - a tool used with workers' hands jack plane - a carpenter's plane for rough finishing jointer, jointer plane, jointing plane, long plane - a long carpenter's plane used to shape the edges of boards so they will fit together match plane, tonguing and grooving plane - a plane having cutters designed to make the tongues and grooves on the edges of matchboards openside plane, rabbet plane - a woodworking plane designed to cut rabbets router plane - a woodworking plane with a narrow cutting head that will make grooves with smooth bottoms scrub plane - a narrow woodworking plane used to cut away excess stock smooth plane, smoothing plane - a small plane for finish work spokeshave - a small plane that has a handle on each side of its blade; used for shaping or smoothing cylindrical wooden surfaces (originally wheel spokes) | |
Verb | 1. | plane - cut or remove with or as if with a plane; "The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood" cut - separate with or as if with an instrument; "Cut the rope" |
2. | plane - travel on the surface of water glide - move smoothly and effortlessly aquaplane - ride on an aquaplane aquaplane - rise up onto a thin film of water between the tires and road so that there is no more contact with the road; "the car aquaplaned" | |
3. | plane - make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane; "plane the top of the door" | |
Adj. | 1. | plane - 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" even - being level or straight or regular and without variation as e.g. in shape or texture; or being in the same plane or at the same height as something else (i.e. even with); "an even application of varnish"; "an even floor"; "the road was not very even"; "the picture is even with the window" |