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Salad vs Plane - What's the difference?

salad | plane |

As nouns the difference between salad and plane

is that salad is a food made primarily of a mixture of raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise while plane is (label) the thing, the point, the interesting thing, the main interest in something, unusualness, speciality.

As an adverb plane is

(label) particularly, especially, certainly.

salad

English

(wikipedia salad)

Alternative forms

* sallet

Noun

  • A food made primarily of a mixture of raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise.
  • A raw vegetable of the kind used in salads.
  • Derived terms

    * caesar salad salad created by restaurateur Caesar Cardini * corn salad * egg salad * fruit salad * garden salad * Greek salad * * pasta salad * potato salad * salad bar * salad days * salad dodger * salad dressing * salad oil * seafood salad * Serbo-Croatian salad * Shopska salad * tomato salad salad made with tomatoes * tuna salad salad made with tuna * Waldorf salad salad made with celery, apples and walnuts * Watergate salad

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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
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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)

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