All English words - page 2757

Meanings of Planed:

verb

(of a bird or an airborne object) soar without moving the wings; glide.

Usage examples:

Seagulls swooped and planed overhead

noun

A flat surface on which a straight line joining any two points on it would wholly lie.

Usage examples:

The horizontal plane

adjective

Completely level or flat.

Usage examples:

A plane surface

Meanings of Planeload:

noun

An amount of cargo or number of passengers that will fill an aircraft.

Usage examples:

A planeload of holidaymakers

Meanings of Planer:

noun

Another term for plane3.

Meanings of Planers:

noun

Another term for plane3.

Meanings of Planes:

noun

A flat surface on which a straight line joining any two points on it would wholly lie.

Usage examples:

The horizontal plane

verb

(of a bird or an airborne object) soar without moving the wings; glide.

Usage examples:

Seagulls swooped and planed overhead

adjective

Completely level or flat.

Usage examples:

A plane surface

Meanings of Planeshear:

noun

The outermost plank or series of planks covering the gunwale or the heads of the frames in a wooden ship.

Meanings of Planet:

noun

A celestial body moving in an elliptical orbit round a star.

Usage examples:

Kepler showed that a planet moves round the sun in an elliptical orbit which has the sun in one of …

Meanings of Planetaria:

noun

A domed building in which images of stars, planets, and constellations are projected for public entertainment or education.

Usage examples:

He announced to his wife that he was going to educate the public by building a planetarium in the b…

Plural of planetarium

Meanings of Planetarian:

adjective

Of or relating to a planet or planets; planetary.

noun

An inhabitant of a planet (usually, other than the earth).

Meanings of Planetarily:

adverb

In the manner of a planet; as regards a planet or planets; from a planetary viewpoint.

Meanings of Planetarium:

noun

A domed building in which images of stars, planets, and constellations are projected for public entertainment or education.

Usage examples:

He announced to his wife that he was going to educate the public by building a planetarium in the b…

Meanings of Planetariums:

noun

A domed building in which images of stars, planets, and constellations are projected for public entertainment or education.

Usage examples:

He announced to his wife that he was going to educate the public by building a planetarium in the b…

Meanings of Planetesimal:

noun

A minute planet; a body which could come together with many others under gravitation to form a planet.

Usage examples:

Asteroids are small bodies in space - the numerous leftover planetesimals from which the planets we…

adjective

Denoting or relating to planetesimals.

Usage examples:

The planetesimal material orbiting the sun

Meanings of Planetfall:

noun

(chiefly in science fiction) a landing or arrival on a planet after a journey through space.

Usage examples:

All freighters currently en route between worlds are exempt from this fine until their next planetf…

Meanings of Planetic:

adjective

Of, relating to, or caused by a planet or planets; = "planetary" 1b.

Meanings of Planetless:

adjective

Of the sky, etc.: containing no (visible) planets; (of a star) having no orbiting planets.

Meanings of Planetography:

noun

Originally: the branch of knowledge that deals with the planets; a treatise on or description of the planets. now also: (science fiction) the geography or physical features of a planet.

Meanings of Planetoid:

noun

Another term for asteroid.

Meanings of Planetoidal:

adjective

Of, relating to, or of the nature of a minor planet or asteroid.

Meanings of Planetoids:

noun

Another term for asteroid.

Meanings of Planforms:

noun

The shape or outline of an aircraft wing as projected upon a horizontal plane.

Usage examples:

I instantly looked up to see the planform on the lead aircraft (which was breaking left), covering …

Meanings of Planful:

adjective

Full of or rich in plans; characterized by planning; organized, systematic.

Meanings of Plangent:

adjective

(of a sound) loud and resonant, with a mournful tone.

Usage examples:

The plangent sound of a harpsichord

Meanings of Planiform:

adjective

Having a flat or flattened shape; (anatomy, of a joint) arthrodial.

Meanings of Planigram:

noun

An image obtained by planigraphy; a tomogram.