planing

2 4.8

The act of making wood smooth and flat using a tool with a sharp blade

noun
/ˈpleɪnɪŋ/

: cepillado

After planing the table leg, he admired how the rough wood transformed into a sleek finish.

Examples

Using a hand tool for planing, she carefully smoothed out the edges of the door for a perfect fit.
These are especially useful for routing, sanding or hand planning as they don't create any obstructions.
The hammerings and the planings ceased as his fat tires scrunched the shingle.

Fiction book (1995)
The carpenter spent the afternoon planing the wooden surface to ensure it was smooth and even.

Synonyms

smooth

vsplaning

1 5.8

An act of making a surface even by rubbing or pressing

is the same but uses a special cutting tool to make a flat surface

leveling

vsplaning

1 2.8

The act of making the ground or surface flat and even

focuses on creating a flat even surface rather than making a slope

Compounds

planing machine

Specialized

6.1

A machine that cuts thin slices from wood to make it smooth

How Smooth

polishing

10 2.1

planing

2 4.8

Surface Forms

planing singular

planings plural

Morphology

planing = plane (transparent) = plane + ing

A straightforward gerund/nominalization from the verb 'plane' denoting the process of using a plane.

Etymology

Planing comes from the tool plane, whose name goes back to a word meaning 'flat', like the everyday word plain. So planing is the act of removing thin layers of wood to make a surface 'flat' and smooth.