The meaning of Plane

noun

A powered flying vehicle with fixed wings and a weight greater than that of the air it displaces.

Usage examples:

Before this trip, i had never been on an aeroplane

noun

Airplane

noun

A plane

noun

An aeroplane, helicopter, or other machine capable of flight.

Usage examples:

Launched with this jumbo team aboard for a test flight, the aircraft failed to gain height.

noun

A powered flying vehicle with fixed wings and a weight greater than that of the air it displaces; an aeroplane.

Usage examples:

The relevant categories for our operations are the weight shift and fixed wing or airplane categori…

noun

A vehicle with wings, powered by engines and having the ability to fly

noun

A plane

Usage examples:

A commercial/passenger airplane, to board/fly/get on an airplane

noun

A warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrate animal distinguished by the possession of feathers, wings, a beak, and typically by being able to fly.

Usage examples:

I am currently using turkey feathers to fletch with, after spending half a day on a commercial turk…

noun

An activity involving skill in making things by hand.

Usage examples:

The craft of cobbling

verb

Exercise skill in making (an object), typically by hand.

Usage examples:

He crafted the chair lovingly

noun

Skill in knowing how to do or make something, or a job or activity needing such skill

Usage examples:

[ u ] he talked about the craft of writing popular fiction., [ c ] i love to do all kinds of crafts…

noun

The amount, level, or extent to which something happens or is present.

Usage examples:

A degree of caution is probably wise

noun

An amount or level of something

Usage examples:

[ c ] this job demands a high degree of skill., [ c ] the house had also been damaged, but to a les…

verb

Be carried slowly by a current of air or water.

Usage examples:

The cabin cruiser started to drift downstream

noun

A continuous slow movement from one place to another.

Usage examples:

There was a drift to the towns

noun

A level or rank in an organization, a profession, or society.

Usage examples:

The upper echelons of the business world

verb

Arrange in an echelon formation.

Usage examples:

The task force would take the left, echeloned to be able to sweep in from the west

noun

A rank or position within an organization, company, or profession

Usage examples:

In the upper/top/higher echelons of sth politicians are often hired by private equity for the conne…

adjective

Flat and smooth.

Usage examples:

Prepare the site, then lay an even bed of mortar

verb

Make or become even.

Usage examples:

She cut the hair again to even up the ends

adverb

Used to emphasize something surprising or extreme.

Usage examples:

They have never even heard of the united states

adjective

Having a level surface; without raised areas or indentations.

Usage examples:

He sat down on a flat rock

adverb

In or to a horizontal position.

Usage examples:

He was lying flat on his back

noun

The flat part of something.

Usage examples:

She placed the flat of her hand over her glass

verb

Rest or move on or near the surface of a liquid without sinking.

Usage examples:

She relaxed, floating gently in the water

noun

A thing that is buoyant in water.

Usage examples:

Eventually the many rings were threaded, the float attached, shotted and the hook tied on.

verb

Be on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom

verb

(of a person's skin, face, etc.) become red and hot, typically as the result of illness or strong emotion.

Usage examples:

Rachel flushed angrily

noun

A reddening of the face, skin, etc., typically caused by illness or strong emotion.

Usage examples:

A flush of embarrassment rose to her cheeks

adjective

Completely level or even with another surface.

Usage examples:

The gates are flush with the adjoining fencing

noun

A secure grip with one's feet.

Usage examples:

He suddenly lost his footing

verb

Cover a distance, especially a long one, on foot.

Usage examples:

The rider was left to foot it ten or twelve miles back to camp

noun

A firm position of the feet

Usage examples:

He lost his footing and tumbled into the water., both sides need to begin negotiations on equal foo…

verb

Move with a smooth, quiet continuous motion.

Usage examples:

A few gondolas glided past

noun

A gliding movement.

Usage examples:

The cuckoo makes its approach in a hawklike glide

adjective

Of or relating to straight lines and planes; satisfying the axioms of euclidean geometry, flat.

adjective

Parallel to the plane of the horizon; at right angles to the vertical.

Usage examples:

A horizontal line

noun

A horizontal line, plane, etc.

Usage examples:

Nushu characters are structured by four kinds of strokes, including dots, horizontals, verticals an…

adjective

Flat or level; parallel with the ground

Usage examples:

Keep the patient in a horizontal position with her feet slightly raised.

noun

A toy consisting of a light frame with thin material stretched over it, flown in the wind at the end of a long string.

Usage examples:

Despite one close call when it dropped so far that the line briefly got caught in the branches of a…

verb

Fly a kite.

Usage examples:

While i kited, she would always watch out for me

noun

A horizontal plane or line with respect to the distance above or below a given point.

Usage examples:

The front garden is on a level with this floor

adjective

Having a flat, horizontal surface.

Usage examples:

We had reached level ground

verb

Give a flat and even surface to.

Usage examples:

Contractors started levelling the ground for the new power station

verb

Give a flat and even surface to.

Usage examples:

Contractors started levelling the ground for the new power station

noun

A horizontal plane or line with respect to the distance above or below a given point.

Usage examples:

The front garden is on a level with this floor

noun

A position on a scale of amount, quantity, extent, or quality.

Usage examples:

A high level of unemployment

adjective

Relating to or in the form of a plane.

Usage examples:

Planar surfaces

adjective

Having a flat or level surface that continues in all directions

Usage examples:

A planar parallelogram

noun

A place where someone or something is located or has been put.

Usage examples:

The distress call had given the ship's position

verb

Put or arrange (someone or something) in a particular place or way.

Usage examples:

He pulled out a chair and positioned it between them

adjective

Arranged in or constituting a constant or definite pattern, especially with the same space between individual instances.

Usage examples:

Plant the flags at regular intervals

noun

A regular customer, member of a team, etc.

Usage examples:

Pub regulars

adjective

Happening repeatedly in a fixed pattern, with equal or similar amounts of space or time between one and the next

Usage examples:

A regular heartbeat, working regular hours, trees were planted at regular intervals along the avenu…

noun

A horizontal support on a ladder for a person's foot.

Usage examples:

He stood, his foot on the lower rungs of a ladder that led to the upper shelves, with his weight pr…

verb

Past participle of ring2.

verb

Make a clear resonant or vibrating sound.

Usage examples:

A bell rang loudly

adjective

Having an even and regular surface; free from perceptible projections, lumps, or indentations.

Usage examples:

Smooth flat rocks

verb

Give (something) a flat, regular surface or appearance.

Usage examples:

She smoothed out the newspaper

adverb

In a way that is without difficulties.

Usage examples:

The course of true love never did run smooth

verb

Fly or rise high in the air.

Usage examples:

The bird spread its wings and soared into the air

verb

To increase or go up quickly to a high level

Usage examples:

Temperatures/prices soared, my spirits soared when i heard the good news., planes soared overhead.,…

verb

To increase quickly in amount, number, value, or level

Usage examples:

Corn, soybean, and wheat prices all soared this year., the organic industry's sales are soaring., a…

noun

A point, period, or step in a process or development.

Usage examples:

There is no need at this stage to give explicit details

verb

Present a performance of (a play or other show).

Usage examples:

The show is being staged at the grand opera house in belfast

noun

A part of an activity, or a period of development

Usage examples:

The software is in the early stages of development., at that stage of my life, i was married but di…

noun

A level of quality or attainment.

Usage examples:

Their restaurant offers a high standard of service

adjective

Used or accepted as normal or average.

Usage examples:

The standard rate of income tax

adjective

Usual or expected; not involving something special or extra

Usage examples:

A standard contract, i don’t work a standard, 35-hour week., the car came with an air conditioner a…

noun

A layer or a series of layers of rock in the ground.

Usage examples:

A stratum of flint

noun

A single layer of something

Usage examples:

The upper strata of society, engineers could inject seawater into sandy strata beneath the city.

adjective

In accordance with fact or reality.

Usage examples:

A true story

adverb

Truly.

Usage examples:

Hobson spoke truer than he knew

verb

Bring (an object, wheel, or other construction) into the exact shape or position required.

Usage examples:

The bench sander is ideal for truing up faces of timber

adjective

Remaining the same in all cases and at all times; unchanging in form or character.

Usage examples:

Blocks of stone of uniform size

noun

The distinctive clothing worn by members of the same organization or body or by children attending certain schools.

Usage examples:

Airline pilots in dark blue uniforms

verb

Make uniform.

noun

A circular object that revolves on an axle and is fixed below a vehicle or other object to enable it to move easily over the ground.

Usage examples:

A chair on wheels

verb

Short for big wheel (sense 2).

noun

A circular object, connected at the center to a bar, that is used for making vehicles or parts of machines move

Usage examples:

The wheel of a bicycle, i never feel safe with richard behind the wheel (= driving)., would you min…