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plane | playne |

As an adverb plane

is (label) particularly, especially, certainly.

As a noun plane

is (label) the thing, the point, the interesting thing, the main interest in something, unusualness, speciality.

As an adjective playne is

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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
    *
    Related terms
    * plain * planar

    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)

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    playne

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • * Literal Figures: Puritan Allegory and the Reformation Crisis in Representation
    • ''There hast thou in the playne texte greate lerninge, greate frute and greate edifienge which I passe over because of tediousnes. Then come I, when I preach of the law and the gospell, and borow this example to expresse the nature of the law and of the Gospell and the paynte it unto the before thine eyes. And of Peter and his swerde make I the law and of Christ the Gospell sayenge, as Peters swerde cutteth off the eare so doeth the law... But Christ, that is to saye the Gospell, the promyses and testamente that God hath made in Christe healeth the care and conscience which the law hath hurte.