plane

an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets; "the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane"

(mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape; "we will refer to the plane of the graph as the X-Y plane"; "any line joining two points on a plane lies wholly on that plane"

a level of existence or development; "he lived on a worldly plane"

a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood

a carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood; "the cabinetmaker used a plane for the finish work"

cut or remove with or as if with a plane; "The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood"

travel on the surface of water

make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane; "plane the top of the door"

having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another; "a flat desk"; "acres of level farmland"; "a plane surface"; "skirts sewn with fine flat seams"