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Plane vs Panel - What's the difference?

plane | panel |

Panel is a anagram of plane.



As nouns the difference between plane and panel

is that plane is a level or flat surface while panel is a (usually) rectangular section of a surface, or of a covering or of a wall, fence etc.; A sunken compartment with raised margins, moulded or otherwise, as in ceilings, wainscotings, etc.

As verbs the difference between plane and panel

is that plane is to smooth (wood) with a plane while panel is to fit with panels.

As an adjective plane

is of a surface: flat or level.

plane

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) . The word was introduced in the seventeenth century to distinguish the geometrical senses from the other senses of plain.

Adjective

(er)
  • Of a surface: flat or level.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A level or flat surface.
  • (geometry) A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane).
  • A level of existence or development. (eg'', ''astral plane )
  • A roughly flat, thin, often moveable structure used to create lateral force by the flow of air or water over its surface, found on aircraft, submarines, etc.
  • (computing, Unicode) Any of a number of designated ranges of sequential code points.
  • (anatomy) An imaginary plane which divides the body into two portions.
  • Hyponyms
    * (mathematics) real plane, complex plane * (anatomy) coronal plane, frontal plane, sagittal plane, transverse plane
    Derived terms
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    Etymology 2

    From (etyl), from (etyl), from (etyl), from

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (countable) A tool for smoothing wood by removing thin layers from the surface.
  • See also
    * rhykenologist

    Verb

    (plan)
  • To smooth (wood) with a plane.
  • Etymology 3

    Abbreviated from aeroplane .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An airplane; an aeroplane.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-09-06, author=Tom Cheshire
  • , volume=189, issue=13, page=34, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Solar-powered travel , passage=The plane is travelling impossibly slowly – 30km an hour – when it gently noses up and leaves the ground. With air beneath them, the rangy wings seem to gain strength; the fuselage that on the ground seemed flimsy becomes elegant, like a crane vaunting in flight. It seems not to fly, though, so much as float.}}
    Derived terms
    * floatplane * planeside * planespotter/plane spotter/plane-spotter * plane spotting * seaplane

    Verb

    (plan)
  • (nautical) To move in a way that lifts the bow of a boat out of the water.
  • To glide or soar.
  • Etymology 4

    From (etyl) plane, from (etyl) platanus, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (senseid)(countable) A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus .
  • (Northern UK) A sycamore.
  • Derived terms
    * (l)

    Anagrams

    *

    panel

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A (usually) rectangular section of a surface, or of a covering or of a wall, fence etc.; (architecture) A sunken compartment with raised margins, moulded or otherwise, as in ceilings, wainscotings, etc.
  • Behind the picture was a panel on the wall.
  • A group of people gathered to judge, interview, discuss etc. as on a television or radio broadcast for example.
  • Today's panel includes John Smith.
  • An individual frame or drawing in a comic.
  • The last panel of a comic strip usually contains a punchline.
  • (legal) A document containing the names of persons summoned as jurors by the sheriff; hence, more generally, the whole jury.
  • (Blackstone)
  • (legal, Scotland) A prisoner arraigned for trial at the bar of a criminal court.
  • (Burrill)
  • (obsolete) A piece of cloth serving as a saddle.
  • A soft pad beneath a saddletree to prevent chafing.
  • (joinery) A board having its edges inserted in the groove of a surrounding frame.
  • the panel of a door
  • (masonry) One of the faces of a hewn stone.
  • (Gwilt)
  • (masonry) A slab or plank of wood used instead of a canvas for painting on.
  • (mining) A heap of dressed ore.
  • (mining) One of the districts divided by pillars of extra size, into which a mine is laid off in one system of extracting coal.
  • (dressmaking) A plain strip or band, as of velvet or plush, placed at intervals lengthwise on the skirt of a dress, for ornament.
  • A portion of a framed structure between adjacent posts or struts, as in a bridge truss.
  • Derived terms

    * panellist (UK), panelist (US) * panelled (UK), paneled (US) * panelling (UK), paneling (US)

    Verb

  • to fit with panels
  • See also

    * instrument panel, control panel * panel beater * panel game * panel van

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