plane

noun

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

e.g. the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane

Synonym: airplaneaeroplane

2. a carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood

e.g. the cabinetmaker used a plane for the finish work

Synonym: carpenter's planewoodworking plane

3. a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood

Synonym: planerplaning machine

4. (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape

e.g. 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

Synonym: sheet

5. a level of existence or development

e.g. he lived on a worldly plane

verb

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

e.g. The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood

Synonym: shave

2. make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane

e.g. plane the top of the door

3. travel on the surface of water

Synonym: skim

adj

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

e.g. a flat desk
acres of level farmland
a plane surface
skirts sewn with fine flat seams

Synonym: flatlevel

1. 飞机
A plane is a vehicle with wings and one or more engines, which can fly through the air.

e.g. He had plenty of time to catch his plane...
他有足够的时间赶飞机。
e.g. Her mother was killed in a plane crash.
她母亲在一次坠机中遇难。

2. （可能带有斜度的）平面
A plane is a flat, level surface which may be sloping at a particular angle.

e.g. ...a building with angled planes.
带有坡面的建筑物

3. （想象中的）平面
If a number of points are in the same plane, one line or one flat surface could pass through them all.

e.g. All the planets orbit the Sun in roughly the same plane, round its equator.
所有的行星大致在同一平面上绕太阳赤道运转。

4. （精神的）水平，水准，层次
If you say that something is on a higher plane, you mean that it is more spiritual or less concerned with ordinary things.

e.g. ...life on a higher plane of existence...
更高境界的生活
e.g. We felt we were living life on several different planes.
我们感到大家生活的精神层次各不相同。

5. 木工刨；刨子
A plane is a tool that has a flat bottom with a sharp blade in it. You move the plane over a piece of wood in order to remove thin pieces of its surface.

6. 刨；刨平；刨光
If you plane a piece of wood, you make it smaller or smoother by using a plane.

e.g. She watches him plane the surface of a walnut board...
她看着他刨平一块胡桃木板。
e.g. Again I planed the surface flush.
我又一次把表面刨平。

7. （轻触水面）疾驶，滑行
If something such as a boat planes across water, it moves quickly across the water, just touching the surface.

plane的反义词

e.g. All four of the boats planed across the Solent with the greatest of ease.
4艘船都极其自如地掠过索伦特海峡。

8. 悬铃木
A plane or a plane tree is a large tree with broad leaves which often grows in towns.

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