airplane aeroplane plane r | an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets, the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane |
beading plane | a plane with a concave blade for making moulding with beadwork |
block plane | a small plane used on end grains of wood |
bullnose bullnosed plane | a small carpenter's plane with the cutting edge near the front |
chamfer plane | a plane that makes a beveled edge |
circular plane compass plane | a plane with a flexible face that can plane concave or convex surfaces |
combination plane | a woodworking plane that has interchangeable cutters of various shapes |
compass | navigational instrument for finding directions |
compass | drafting instrument used for drawing circles |
compass card mariner's compass | compass in the form of a card that rotates so that degrees or North points to magnetic north |
compass saw | a handsaw with a narrow triangular blade for cutting curves |
dado plane | a plane for making a dado groove |
double-prop double-propeller plane twin-prop twin-propeller-plane | a propeller plane with an engine that drives two propellers in opposite directions (for stability) |
dovetail plane | a woodworking plane designed to make the grooves for dovetail joints |
floatplane pontoon plane | a seaplane equipped with pontoons for landing or taking off from water |
fore plane | a carpenter's plane intermediate between a jack plane and a jointer plane |
inclined plane | a simple machine for elevating objects, consists of plane surface that makes an acute angle with the horizontal |
jack plane | a carpenter's plane for rough finishing |
jet jet plane jet-propelled plane | an airplane powered by one or more jet engines |
jointer jointer plane jointing plane long plane | a long carpenter's plane used to shape the edges of boards so they will fit together |
magnetic compass | compass based on an indicator (as a magnetic needle) that points to the magnetic north |
match plane tonguing and grooving plane | a plane having cutters designed to make the tongues and grooves on the edges of matchboards |
multiengine airplane multiengine plane | a plane with two or more engines |
openside plane rabbet plane | a woodworking plane designed to cut rabbets |
plane carpenter's plane woodworking plane | a carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood, the cabinetmaker used a plane for the finish work |
plane planer planing machine | a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood |
plane seat | a seat on a commercial airliner |
plane table | surveying instrument consisting of a drawing board and a ruler that are mounted on a tripod, used to sight and map topographical details |
propeller plane | an airplane that is driven by a propeller |
propjet turboprop turbo-propeller plane | an airplane with an external propeller that is driven by a turbojet engine |
radio compass | a direction finder that gives a bearing by determining the direction of incoming radio signals |
reconnaissance plane | a military airplane used to gain information about an enemy |
router plane | a woodworking plane with a narrow cutting head that will make grooves with smooth bottoms |
scrub plane | a narrow woodworking plane used to cut away excess stock |
single prop single-propeller plane | a propeller plane with a single propeller |
ski-plane | an airplane equipped with skis so it can land on a snowfield |
smooth plane smoothing plane | a small plane for finish work |
tanker plane | an airplane constructed to transport chemicals that can be dropped in order to fight a forest fire |
warplane military plane | an aircraft designed and used for combat |
scope range reach orbit compass ambit | an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: the range of a supersonic jet, a piano has a greater range than the human voice, the ambit of municipal legislation, within the compass of this article, within the scope of an investigation, outside the reach of the law, in the political orbit of a world power |
compass range reach grasp | the limit of capability, within the compass of education |
plane geometry | the geometry of -dimensional figures |
plane ticket airplane ticket | a ticket good for a trip on an airplane |
section plane section | (geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid |
compass plant compass flower | any of several plants having leaves so arranged on the axis as to indicate the cardinal points of the compass |
prairie bird's-foot trefoil compass plant prairie lotus prairie trefoil Lotus americanus | North American annual with red or roseolored flowers |
Platanaceae family Platanaceae plane-tree family | coextensive with the genus Platanus: plane trees |
plane tree sycamore platan | any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits |
London plane Platanus acerifolia | very large fast-growing tree much planted as a street tree |
American sycamore American plane buttonwood Platanus occidentalis | very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico |