Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: plane
IPA transcription: [pl'eɪn]
Pronunciations of plane
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: flat, level, plane
    Meaning: 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"
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: airplane, aeroplane, plane
    Meaning: an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets; "the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane"
  • Synonyms: plane, sheet
    Meaning: (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"
  • Synonyms: plane
    Meaning: a level of existence or development; "he lived on a worldly plane"
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: plane, shave
    Meaning: cut or remove with or as if with a plane; "The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood"
Usage examples
  • THE PLANE TREE
  • They walked to the plane together.
  • "How useless is the Plane!" said one of them.
  • Again and again the plane circled above the meadow.
  • "Ungrateful creatures!" said a voice from the Plane Tree.
  • He saw the plane tilt and the machine rise from the ground.
  • Twenty feet above the running ape-man soared the huge plane.
  • A single slight tip of the plane would have cast them both into eternity.
  • Of course the Phoenix's Plan was more important than any model plane could be.
  • Just as they twist and turn in the horizontal plane, so do they in the vertical.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording USS Missouri (BB-63), License CC BY-SA 4.0