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(verb) cut slices from; "The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood" |
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Synonyms: shave |
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Related Words: cut |
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(verb) travel on the surface of water |
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Synonyms: skim |
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Related Words: aquaplane, glide |
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(noun) a carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood; "the cabinetmaker used a plane for the finish work" |
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Synonyms: carpenter's plane, woodworking plane |
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Related Words: beading plane, block plane, bullnose, bullnosed plane, chamfer plane, circular plane, combination plane, compass plane, dovetail plane, fore plane, hand tool, jack plane, jointer, jointer plane, jointing plane, long plane, match plane, openside plane, rabbet plane, router plane, scrub plane, smooth plane, smoothing plane, tonguing and grooving plane |
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(noun) a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood |
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Synonyms: planer, planing machine |
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Related Words: power tool |
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(noun) (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" |
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Synonyms: sheet |
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Related Words: facet plane, form, midline, midplane, orbital plane, picture plane, shape, tangent plane |
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(noun) a level of existence or development; "he lived on a worldly plane" |
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Related Words: degree, level, point, stage |
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(satellite adjective) having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or lower than another; "a flat desk"; "acres of level farmland"; "a plane surface" |
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Synonyms: flat, level |
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(noun) an aircraft that has fixed a wing and is powered by propellers or jets; "the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane" |
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Synonyms: aeroplane, airplane |
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Related Words: aircraft, airliner, amphibian, amphibious aircraft, attack aircraft, biplane, bomber, fighter, fighter aircraft, hangar queen, hydroplane, jet, jet plane, jet-propelled plane, monoplane, propeller plane, seaplane, ski-plane, turbojet, turboprop |
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