plane
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7.1
- noun
- /pleɪn/
:
garlopa
- In the middle of winter last year, a forty-year-old woman took a plane to a Midwestern city.
Examples
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I like your plane.
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The carpenter used a plane to smooth the wooden table's surface.
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Throw a couple of passes with the hand plane and it's, well, pretty good.
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I used a knife to cut them and a block plane to finish them.
Fiction book (1995) -
With the plane in hand, she carefully shaped the edges of the wood.
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He learned how to use a plane to create beautiful finishes on his furniture.
Synonyms
1
7.6
A hand tool with a long flat bottom for smoothing and shaping wood before finishing
1
9.9
A hand tool that cuts a long groove along the edge of wood
A hand tool with a sharp adjustable blade for smoothing and shaping wood surfaces
A hand tool with an adjustable blade used to smooth or shape wood
A small hand tool that makes wood surfaces even and fine
A small hand tool that makes wood surfaces smooth
A small hand tool for smoothing and trimming the ends of wood
A long hand tool with a blade used to flatten rough boards before final smoothing
A long tool carpenters use to make board edges straight
A long flat tool for making board edges straight and smooth so they fit together
A long tool that makes the edges of boards straight so they fit together
A long hand tool that smooths and flattens the edges of boards for a tight fit
A narrow heavy tool that quickly removes lots of rough wood
A woodworking tool with changeable blades that cuts grooves and shapes wood
A tool for making narrow grooves with smooth flat bottoms in wood
A hand tool that cuts matching raised edges and slots on boards so they fit together
A hand tool that cuts tongues and grooves in board edges so they fit together
A small hand tool that cuts a straight groove across a wooden board
A woodworking tool for cutting a long groove along a board edge that has one open side
A tool for cutting angled grooves that join two pieces of wood together
A hand tool for cutting a sloping edge on wood
A small woodworking tool with its blade near the front for smoothing wood close to corners
A hand tool with a curved blade that cuts small rounded shapes along wood edges
A hand tool with a flexible bottom for smoothing inside and outside curves in wood
A woodworking tool with a curved, flexible base for shaping rounded wood
Idioms
- Informal
Make or improve something while people already use it, fixing problems as you go
Compounds
3
9.9
A non-physical world people believe you can visit in dreams, meditation, or after death
- Specialized
3
6.5
A military plane that flies over areas to find out about the enemy
- Specialized
1
7.9
A flat path in space that a thing follows as it goes around a planet or star
1
6.1
A large tree with pale, peeling bark, broad leaves, and round seed balls that gives shade
- Specialized
1
8.1
A flat imagined surface in a picture that seems closest to the viewer
- Specialized
1
7.1
A flat surface for showing numbers that have a real part and an imaginary part as points
1
8.6
A very large tree with broad branches and peeling bark from eastern and central North America
- Specialized
1
7.6
A hand tool with a long flat bottom for smoothing and shaping wood before finishing
- Specialized
1
3.8
The study of flat shapes like lines, circles, and shapes with many sides
- Specialized
A hand tool with a curved blade that cuts small rounded shapes along wood edges
- Specialized
A small woodworking tool with its blade near the front for smoothing wood close to corners
- Specialized
A flat area with two crossing lines used to show points by x and y numbers
- Specialized
A woodworking tool with a curved, flexible base for shaping rounded wood
- Specialized
A hand tool with a flexible bottom for smoothing inside and outside curves in wood
- Archaic
A woodworking tool with changeable blades that cuts grooves and shapes wood
- Specialized
A plane with two propellers that spin in opposite directions to make it fly more steadily
- Specialized
A tool for cutting angled grooves that join two pieces of wood together
- Specialized
A flat surface on a solid object that forms one face, like a cube or crystal
- Specialized
A long hand tool with a blade used to flatten rough boards before final smoothing
A large fast-growing tree with bark that peels, planted along city streets because it tolerates pollution
- Specialized
A long hand tool that smooths and flattens the edges of boards for a tight fit
- Specialized
A hand tool that cuts tongues and grooves in board edges so they fit together
- Specialized
A long flat tool for making board edges straight and smooth so they fit together
- Specialized
A woodworking tool for cutting a long groove along a board edge that has one open side
- Specialized
A large tree with broad leaves and patchy bark from southern Europe and western Asia
- Specialized
A family of trees with large leaves and patchy bark often planted in parks for shade
- Specialized
A hand tool that cuts matching raised edges and slots on boards so they fit together
- Specialized
A hand tool with a sharp adjustable blade for smoothing and shaping wood surfaces
How Smooth
- Specialized
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7.1
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- Specialized
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3.2
Surface Forms
Etymology
Plane as the hand tool takes its name from Latin planus 'flat', because a plane is used to make wood flat and smooth, so the tool is what you use to make a surface 'plain'.