Plane vs Particle - What's the difference?
plane | particle |
Of a surface: flat or level.
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.
To smooth (wood) with a plane.
An airplane; an aeroplane.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-09-06, author=Tom Cheshire
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, title= (nautical) To move in a way that lifts the bow of a boat out of the water.
To glide or soar.
(senseid)(countable) A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus .
(Northern UK) A sycamore.
A very small piece of matter, a fragment; especially, the smallest possible part of something.
(linguistics, sensu lato) A part of speech which can not be declined, an adverb, preposition, conjunction or interjection
* 1844 , E. A. Andrews: First Lessions in Latin; or Introduction to Andrews and Stoddard's Latin Grammar. (6th edition, Boston), p.91 (
* 1894 (2008), B. L. Gildersleeve & G. Lodge: Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar (reprint of the 3rd edition by Dover, 2008), p.9. (
(linguistics, sensu stricto) A word that has a particular grammatical function but does not obviously belong to any particular part of speech, such as the word to in English infinitives or O as the vocative particle.
* {{quote-web
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, author = Shigeyuki Kuroda
, title = Generative grammatical studies in the Japanese language
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(physics) Any of various physical objects making up the constituent parts of an atom; an elementary particle or subatomic particle.
* 2011 , & Jeff Forshaw, The Quantum Universe , Allen Lane 2011, p. 55:
*{{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
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, title=A Palette of Particles
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As nouns the difference between plane and particle
is that plane is (label) the thing, the point, the interesting thing, the main interest in something, unusualness, speciality while particle is a very small piece of matter, a fragment; especially, the smallest possible part of something.As an adverb plane
is (label) particularly, especially, certainly.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)Noun
(en noun)Hyponyms
* (mathematics) real plane, complex plane * (anatomy) coronal plane, frontal plane, sagittal plane, transverse planeDerived terms
*Etymology 2
From (etyl), from (etyl), from (etyl), fromSee also
* rhykenologistVerb
(plan)Etymology 3
Abbreviated from aeroplane .Noun
(en noun)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 * seaplaneVerb
(plan)Etymology 4
From (etyl) plane, from (etyl) platanus, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* (l)Anagrams
*particle
English
(wikipedia particle)Noun
(en noun)at books.google)
- 322. The parts of speech which are neither declined nor conjugated, are called by the general name of particles . 323. They are adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.
at books.google)
- The Parts of Speech are the Noun (Substantive and Adjective), the Pronoun, the Verb, and the Particles (Adverb, Preposition, and Conjunction)[.]
- In English there is no grammatical device to differentiate predicational judgments from nonpredicational descriptions. This distinction does cast a shadow on the grammatical sphere to some extent, but recognition of it must generally be made in semantic terms. It is maintained here that in Japanese, on the other hand, the distinction is grammatically realized through the use of the two particles wa and ga.
- Traditional grammar typically recog-
nises a number of further categories: for example, in his Reference Book of
Terms in Traditional Grammar for Language Students'', Simpson (1982) posits
two additional word-level categories which he refers to as ''Particle'', and
''Conjunction''. Particles include the italicised words in (58) below:
(58) (a) He put his hat ''on''
(b) If you pull too hard, the handle will come ''off''
(c) He was leaning too far over the side, and fell ''out''
(d) He went ''up to see the manager
- What, he asked himself, does quantum theory have to say about the familiar properties of particles such as position?
citation, passage=The physics of elementary particles' in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of ' particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.}}