What is the meaning of plane?

noun

• An aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets.
  • usage: "the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane"
  • synonyms: airplane, aeroplane
• Mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape. (
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: sheet
• A level of existence or development.
  • usage: "he lived on a worldly plane"
• A power tool for smoothing or shaping wood.
  • synonyms: planer, planing machine
• A carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood.
  • usage: "the cabinetmaker used a plane for the finish work"
  • synonyms: carpenter's plane, woodworking plane

verb

• Cut or remove with or as if with a plane.
  • usage: "The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood"
  • synonyms: shave
• Travel on the surface of water.
  • synonyms: skim
• Make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane.
  • usage: "plane the top of the door"

adjective

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