plane : Idioms & Phrases

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american plane

  • noun very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico
    buttonwood; Platanus occidentalis; American sycamore.
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Aspect of a plane

  • (Geom.), the direction of the plane.
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Axes of coördinates in a plane

  • to straight lines intersecting each other, to which points are referred for the purpose of determining their relative position: they are either rectangular or oblique.
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banding plane

Band"ing plane`
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  1. A plane used for cutting out grooves and inlaying strings and bands in straight and circular work.
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Basal plane

  • (Crystallog.), one parallel to the lateral or horizontal axis.
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beading plane

  • noun a plane with a concave blade for making moulding with beadwork
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Bench plane

  • any plane used by carpenters and joiners for working a flat surface, as jack planes, long planes.
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block plane

  • noun a small plane used on end grains of wood
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bullnosed plane

  • noun a small carpenter's plane with the cutting edge near the front
    bullnose.
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capping plane

Cap"ping plane`
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  1. (Join.) A plane used for working the upper surface of staircase rails.
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carpenter's plane

  • noun a carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood
    carpenter's plane; plane.
    • the cabinetmaker used a plane for the finish work
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cartesian plane

  • noun a plane in which all points can be described in Cartesian coordinates
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chamfer plane

  • noun a plane that makes a beveled edge
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circular plane

  • noun a plane with a flexible face that can plane concave or convex surfaces
    circular plane.
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combination plane

  • noun a woodworking plane that has interchangeable cutters of various shapes
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Compass plane

  • noun a plane with a flexible face that can plane concave or convex surfaces
    circular plane.
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  • (Carp.), a plane, convex in the direction of its length on the under side, for smoothing the concave faces of curved woodwork.
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Composition plane

  • (Crystallog.), the plane by which the two individuals of a twin crystal are united in their reserved positions.
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convexo-plane

Con*vex"o-plane` adjective
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  1. Convex on one side, and flat on the other; plano-convex.
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dado plane

  • noun a plane for making a dado groove
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Directer plane

  • (Geom.), the plane to which all right-lined elements in a warped surface are parallel.
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double-propeller plane

  • noun a propeller plane with an engine that drives two propellers in opposite directions (for stability)
    double-prop; twin-prop; double-propeller plane.
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dovetail plane

  • noun a woodworking plane designed to make the grooves for dovetail joints
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Edge plane

  • . (a) (Carp.) A plane for edging boards. (b) (Shoemaking) A plane for edging soles.
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facet plane

  • noun the plane of a facet of an object (as of a cube)
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Fore plane

  • noun a carpenter's plane intermediate between a jack plane and a jointer plane
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  • a carpenter's plane, in size and use between a jack plane and a smoothing plane. Knight.
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Geometrical plane

  • (Persp.), the same as Ground plane .
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Ground plane

  • the horizontal plane of projection in perspective drawing.
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Gutter plane

  • a carpenter's plane with a rounded bottom for planing out gutters.
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Horizontal plane

  • (Descriptive Geometry), a plane parallel to the horizon, upon which it is assumed that objects are projected. See Projection. It is upon the horizontal plane that the ground plan of the buildings is supposed to be drawn.
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Inclined plane

  • noun a simple machine for elevating objects; consists of plane surface that makes an acute angle with the horizontal
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  • . (Mech.) (a) A plane that makes an oblique angle with the plane of the horizon; a sloping plane. When used to produce pressure, or as a means of moving bodies, it is one of the mechanical powers, so called. (b) (Railroad & Canal) An inclined portion of track, on which trains or boats are raised or lowered from one level to another.
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Jack plane

  • noun a carpenter's plane for rough finishing
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  • a joiner's plane used for coarse work.
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jet plane

  • noun an airplane powered by one or more jet engines
    jet; jet plane.
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jet-propelled plane

  • noun an airplane powered by one or more jet engines
    jet; jet plane.
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jointer plane

  • noun a long carpenter's plane used to shape the edges of boards so they will fit together
    jointing plane; jointer; jointer plane.
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Jointing plane

  • noun a long carpenter's plane used to shape the edges of boards so they will fit together
    jointing plane; jointer; jointer plane.
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  • . See Jointer, 2.
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london plane

  • noun very large fast-growing tree much planted as a street tree
    Platanus acerifolia.
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long plane

  • noun a long carpenter's plane used to shape the edges of boards so they will fit together
    jointing plane; jointer; jointer plane.
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Match plane

  • noun a plane having cutters designed to make the tongues and grooves on the edges of matchboards
    match plane.
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  • (Carp.), either of the two planes used to shape the edges of boards which are joined by grooving and tonguing.
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Median plane

  • (Anat.), the mesial plane.
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Mesial plane

  • . (Anat.) See Meson.
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military plane

  • noun an aircraft designed and used for combat
    warplane.
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Modeling plane

  • a small plane for planing rounded objects.
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multiengine plane

  • noun a plane with two or more engines
    multiengine airplane.
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Objective plane

  • (Surv.), the horizontal plane upon which the object which is to be delineated, or whose place is to be determined, is supposed to stand.
  • (Perspective), any plane in the horizontal plane that is represented.
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openside plane

  • noun a woodworking plane designed to cut rabbets
    openside plane.
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orbital plane

  • noun (astronomy) the plane on which a body is orbiting
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oriental plane

  • noun large tree of southeastern Europe to Asia Minor
    Platanus orientalis.
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Osculatory plane

  • (to a curve of double curvature), a plane which passes through three successive points of the curve.
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Perspective plane

  • . See Perspective.
  • the plane or surface on which the objects are delineated, or the picture drawn; the plane of projection; distinguished from the ground plane, which is that on which the objects are represented as standing. When this plane is oblique to the principal face of the object, the perspective is called oblique perspective; when parallel to that face, parallel perspective.
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picture plane

  • noun the plane that is in the foreground of a drawing or painting; coextensive with but different from the objective surface of the work
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Pitch of a plane

  • (Carp.), the slant of the cutting iron.
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Plane angle

  • noun an angle formed by two straight lines (in the same plane)
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  • the angle included between two straight lines in a plane.
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Plane at infinity

  • (Geom.), a plane in which points infinitely distant are conceived as situated.
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Plane chart, Plane curve

  • . See under Chart and Curve.
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Plane figure

  • noun a two-dimensional shape
    two-dimensional figure.
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  • a figure all points of which lie in the same plane. If bounded by straight lines it is a rectilinear plane figure, if by curved lines it is a curvilinear plane figure.
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Plane geometry

  • noun the geometry of 2-dimensional figures
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  • that part of geometry which treats of the relations and properties of plane figures.
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Plane iron

  • the cutting chisel of a joiner's plane.
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Plane of polarization

  • . (Opt.) See Polarization.
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Plane of projection

  • . (a) The plane on which the projection is made, corresponding to the perspective plane in perspective; called also principal plane. (b) (Descriptive Geom.) One of the planes to which points are referred for the purpose of determining their relative position in space.
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Plane of refractionreflection

  • (Opt.), the plane in which lie both the incident ray and the refracted or reflected ray.
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Plane problem

  • a problem which can be solved geometrically by the aid of the right line and circle only.
  • (Geom.), a problem that can be solved by the use of the rule and compass.
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Plane sailing

  • (Naut.), the method of computing a ship's place and course on the supposition that the earth's surface is a plane.
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Plane scale

  • (Naut.), a scale for the use of navigators, on which are graduated chords, sines, tangents, secants, rhumbs, geographical miles, etc.
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plane seat

  • noun a seat on a commercial airliner
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plane section

  • noun (geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid
    section.
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Plane surveying

  • surveying in which the curvature of the earth is disregarded; ordinary field and topographical surveying of tracts of moderate extent.
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Plane table

  • noun surveying instrument consisting of a drawing board and a ruler that are mounted on a tripod; used to sight and map topographical details
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  • an instrument used for plotting the lines of a survey on paper in the field.
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plane ticket

  • noun a ticket good for a trip on an airplane
    airplane ticket.
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plane tree

  • noun any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits
    sycamore; platan.
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Plane" tree`
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  1. (Bot.) Same as 1st Plane.
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Plane trigonometry

  • the branch of trigonometry in which its principles are applied to plane triangles.
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plane-parallel

Plane`-par"al*lel adjective
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  1. (Optics) Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel, as a piece of glass.
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plane-polarized

  • adjective (of a moving wave) vibrating in a single plane
    • plane-polarized light
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plane-tree family

  • noun coextensive with the genus Platanus: plane trees
    family Platanaceae; Platanaceae.
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pontoon plane

  • noun a seaplane equipped with pontoons for landing or taking off from water
    floatplane.
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Primitive plane

  • (Spherical Projection), the plane upon which the projections are made, generally coinciding with some principal circle of the sphere, as the equator or a meridian.
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Principal plane

  • . See Plane of projection (a), under Plane.
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Projection of a point on a plane

  • (Descriptive Geom.), the foot of a perpendicular to the plane drawn through the point.
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Projection of a straight line of a plane

  • the straight line of the plane connecting the feet of the perpendiculars let fall from the extremities of the given line.
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propeller plane

  • noun an airplane that is driven by a propeller
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rabbet plane

  • noun a woodworking plane designed to cut rabbets
    openside plane.
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reconnaissance plane

  • noun a military airplane used to gain information about an enemy
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router plane

  • noun a woodworking plane with a narrow cutting head that will make grooves with smooth bottoms
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scabbard plane

Scab"bard plane`
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  1. See Scaleboard plane, under Scaleboard.
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Scaleboard plane

  • a plane for cutting from a board a wide shaving forming a scaleboard.
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scrub plane

  • noun a narrow woodworking plane used to cut away excess stock
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Side plane

  • a plane in which the cutting edge of the iron is at the side of the stock.
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single-propeller plane

  • noun a propeller plane with a single propeller
    single prop.
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ski-plane

  • noun an airplane equipped with skis so it can land on a snowfield
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Slope of a plane

  • (Geom.), the direction of the plane; as, parallel planes have the same slope.
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smooth plane

  • noun a small plane for finish work
    smooth plane.
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Smoothing plane

  • noun a small plane for finish work
    smooth plane.
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  • a short, finely set plane, for smoothing and finishing work.
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Tangent plane

  • noun the plane that contains all the lines tangent to a specific point on a surface
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  • (Geom.), a plane which touches a surface in a point or line.
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tanker plane

  • noun an airplane constructed to transport chemicals that can be dropped in order to fight a forest fire
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Thrust plane

  • (Geol.), the surface along which dislocation has taken place in the case of a reversed fault.
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tonguing and grooving plane

  • noun a plane having cutters designed to make the tongues and grooves on the edges of matchboards
    match plane.
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Toothing plane

  • a plane of which the iron is formed into a series of small teeth, for the purpose of roughening surfaces, as of veneers.
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turbo-propeller plane

  • noun an airplane with an external propeller that is driven by a turbojet engine
    turboprop; propjet.
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twin-propeller-plane

  • noun a propeller plane with an engine that drives two propellers in opposite directions (for stability)
    double-prop; twin-prop; double-propeller plane.
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Twinning axis, Twinning plane

  • . See the Note under Twin, n.
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Vertical plane

  • . (a) (Conic Sections) A plane passing through the vertex of a cone, and through its axis. (b) (Projections) Any plane which passes through a vertical line. (c) (Persp.) The plane passing through the point of sight, and perpendicular to the ground plane, and also to the picture.
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Visual plane

  • any plane passing through the point of sight.
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woodworking plane

  • noun a carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood
    carpenter's plane; plane.
    • the cabinetmaker used a plane for the finish work
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