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Plane vs Planer - What's the difference?

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Planer is a synonym of plane.



As adjectives the difference between plane and planer

is that plane is of a surface: flat or level while planer is comparative of plane.

As nouns the difference between plane and planer

is that plane is a level or flat surface while planer is a woodworking tool which smooths a surface or makes one surface of a workpiece parallel to the tool's bed.

As a verb plane

is to smooth (wood) with a plane.

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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    planer

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (plane)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A woodworking tool which smooths a surface or makes one surface of a workpiece parallel to the tool's bed.
  • A large machine tool in which the workpiece is traversed linearly (by means of a reciprocating bed) beneath a single-point cutting tool. (Analogous to a shaper but larger and with the workpiece moving instead of the tool.) Planers can generate various shapes, but were most especially used to generate large, accurate flat surfaces. The planer is nowadays obsolescent, having been mostly superseded by large milling machines.
  • (archaic, printing) A wooden block used for forcing down the type in a form, and making the surface even.
    • (Hansard)

    Synonyms

    * * thickness planer

    See also

    * planner

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