plane
plane 英 [pleɪn] 美 [plen]
n. 飞机；平面，水平； vt. 刨平；
进行时:planing 过去式:planed 过去分词:planed 第三人称单数:planes 名词复数:planes
- A plane is a vehicle that flies through the air, but it is also a tool used to make something smooth and flat, a kind of tree or a level surface. As a verb, to plane something is to make it flat and smooth.
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- n. 飞机；平面，水平；
- vt. 刨平；
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1. She left by plane for Berlin.
她乘飞机去柏林了。
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2. a plane crash
飞机坠毁
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3. The plane took off an hour late.
飞机延迟了一小时起飞。
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4. Plane the surface down first.
首先要把表面刨平。
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5. to reach a higher plane of achievement
取得更高的成就
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6. a plane surface
平面
- plane (n.1) "flat surface," c. 1600, from Latin planum "flat surface, plane, level, plain," noun use of neuter of adjective planus "flat, level, even, plain, clear," from PIE *pla-no- (source also of Lithuanian plonas "thin;" Celtic *lanon "plain;" perhaps also Greek pelanos "sacrificial cake, a mixture offered to the gods, offering (of meal, honey, and oil) poured or spread"), suffixed form of root *pele- (2) "flat; to spread."
- plane (n.2) 1908, short for aeroplane (see airplane).
- plane (n.3) "tool for smoothing surfaces," mid-14c., from Old French plane, earlier plaine (14c.), from Late Latin plana, back-formation from planare "make level," from Latin planus "level, flat, smooth" (from PIE root *pele-(2) "flat; to spread").
- plane (n.4) "tree of the genus Platanus," late 14c., from Old French plane, earlier plasne (14c.), from Latin platanus, from Greek platanos, earlier platanistos "plane tree," a species from Asia Minor, associated with platys "broad" (from PIE root *plat- "to spread") in reference to its leaves. Applied since 1778 in Scotland and northern England to the sycamore, whose leaves somewhat resemble those of the true plane tree.
- plane (v.1) "to make smooth," early 14c., "to gloss over, explain away;" mid-14c. as "to make smooth or even," from Old French planer "to smooth, level off; wipe away, erase" (12c.), from Late Latin planare "make level," from Latin planus "level, flat" (from PIE root *pele- (2) "flat; to spread"). In early use in English often plain. Related: Planed; planing.
- plane (v.2) "soar, glide on motionless wings," early 15c., from Old French planer "to hover (as a bird), to lie flat," from plan (n.) "plane," from Latin planum "flat surface" (root *pele- (2) "flat; to spread"), on notion of bird gliding with flattened wings. Of boats, etc., "to skim over the surface of water," it is first found 1913. Related: Planed; planing.
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