Planing Synonyms & Definitions

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• PlaningDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plane
2. () a. & vb. n. fr. Plane, v. t.

• PlanDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (a.) A scheme devised; a method of action or procedure expressed or described in language; a project; as, the plan of a constitution; the plan of an expedition.
2. (a.) A draught or form; properly, a representation drawn on a plane, as a map or a chart; especially, a top view, as of a machine, or the representation or delineation of a horizontal section of anything, as of a building; a graphic representation; a diagram.
3. (a.) A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
4. (v. t.) To scheme; to devise; to contrive; to form in design; as, to plan the conquest of a country.
5. (v. t.) To form a delineation of; to draught; to represent, as by a diagram.

• PlaneDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (v. i.) Of a boat, to lift more or less out of the water while in motion, after the manner of a hydroplane; to hydroplane.
2. (a.) To make smooth; to level; to pare off the inequalities of the surface of, as of a board or other piece of wood, by the use of a plane; as, to plane a plank.
3. (n.) Any tree of the genus Platanus.
4. (a.) Without elevations or depressions; even; level; flat; lying in, or constituting, a plane; as, a plane surface.
5. (a.) A tool for smoothing boards or other surfaces of wood, for forming moldings, etc. It consists of a smooth-soled stock, usually of wood, from the under side or face of which projects slightly the steel cutting edge of a chisel, called the iron, which inclines backward, with an apperture in front for the escape of shavings; as, the jack plane; the smoothing plane; the molding plane, etc.
6. (a.) A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate.
7. (a.) A surface, real or imaginary, in which, if any two points are taken, the straight line which joins them lies wholly in that surface; or a surface, any section of which by a like surface is a straight line; a surface without curvature.
8. (a.) An ideal surface, conceived as coinciding with, or containing, some designated astronomical line, circle, or other curve; as, the plane of an orbit; the plane of the ecliptic, or of the equator.
9. (a.) Figuratively, to make plain or smooth.
10. (a.) To efface or remove.