Plane Pleɪn Left Caught Flat Noun Latin Bre

• she left by plane for berlin.
• a plane crash
• i caught the next plane to dublin.
• the plane took off an hour late.

plane

1. a flying vehicle with wings and one or more engines
• She left by plane for Berlin.
• a plane crash
• I caught the next plane to Dublin.
• The plane took off an hour late.
• The plane landed at Geneva.
• They boarded the plane and flew to Chicago.
2. any flat or level surface, or an imaginary flat surface through or joining material objects
• the horizontal/vertical plane
• We may describe uniquely any point in a plane by an ordered pair of numbers, called coordinates.
3. a level of thought, existence or development
• to reach a higher plane of achievement
• They seem to exist on a different spiritual plane.
4. a tool with a blade set in a flat surface, used for making the surface of wood smooth by shaving very thin layers off it

Extra Examples

• I’ve never flown in a plane.
• Like all talented musicians, he operates on a different plane from most people.
• She caught the first plane out.
• The Soviets shot down our U-2 spy plane.
• The plane was carrying 350 people.
• The plane was cruising at 20 000 feet.
• The president was never on the plane at all.
• We left by plane for Beijing.
• With practice, an athlete can reach a higher plane of achievement.
• a military cargo plane
• the first generation of passenger planes, like the Boeing 707

Word Origin

• noun sense 1 early 20th cent.: shortened form. noun senses 2 to 3 early 17th cent.: from Latin planum ‘flat surface’, neuter of the adjective planus ‘plain’. The adjective was suggested by French plan(e) ‘flat’. The word was introduced to differentiate the geometrical senses, previously expressed by plain, from its other meanings. noun sense 4 Middle English: from a variant of obsolete French plaine ‘planing instrument’, from late Latin plana (in the same sense), from Latin planare ‘make level’, from planus ‘plain, level’.