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- English Word Plan Definition A draught or form; properly, a representation drawn on a plane, as a map or a chart; especially, a top view, as of a machine, or the representation or delineation of a horizontal section of anything, as of a building; a graphic representation; a diagram.
- English Word Plan Definition A scheme devised; a method of action or procedure expressed or described in language; a project; as, the plan of a constitution; the plan of an expedition.
- English Word Plan Definition A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
- English Word Plan Definition To form a delineation of; to draught; to represent, as by a diagram.
- English Word Plan Definition To scheme; to devise; to contrive; to form in design; as, to plan the conquest of a country.
- English Word Planaria Definition Any species of turbellarian worms belonging to Planaria, and many allied genera. The body is usually flat, thin, and smooth. Some species, in warm countries, are terrestrial.
- English Word Planariae Definition of Planaria
- English Word Planarian Definition One of the Planarida, or Dendrocoela; any turbellarian worm.
- English Word Planarida Definition A division of Turbellaria; the Dendrocoela.
- English Word Planarioid Definition Like the planarians.
- English Word Planary Definition Of or pertaining to a plane.
- English Word Planch Definition A plank.
- English Word Planch Definition To make or cover with planks or boards; to plank.
- English Word Planched Definition of Planch
- English Word Plancher Definition A floor of wood; also, a plank.
- English Word Plancher Definition The under side of a cornice; a soffit.
- English Word Plancher Definition To form of planks.
- English Word Planchet Definition A flat piece of metal; especially, a disk of metal ready to be stamped as a coin.
- English Word Planchette Definition A circumferentor. See Circumferentor.
- English Word Planchette Definition A small tablet of wood supported on casters and having a pencil attached. The characters produced by the pencil on paper, while the hand rests on the instrument and it is allowed to move, are sometimes translated as of oracular or supernatural import.
- English Word Planching Definition of Planch
- English Word Planching Definition The laying of floors in a building; also, a floor of boards or planks.
- English Word Plane Definition Any tree of the genus Platanus.
- English Word Plane Definition Without elevations or depressions; even; level; flat; lying in, or constituting, a plane; as, a plane surface.
- English Word Plane Definition A surface, real or imaginary, in which, if any two points are taken, the straight line which joins them lies wholly in that surface; or a surface, any section of which by a like surface is a straight line; a surface without curvature.
- English Word Plane Definition An ideal surface, conceived as coinciding with, or containing, some designated astronomical line, circle, or other curve; as, the plane of an orbit; the plane of the ecliptic, or of the equator.
- English Word Plane Definition A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate.
- English Word Plane Definition A tool for smoothing boards or other surfaces of wood, for forming moldings, etc. It consists of a smooth-soled stock, usually of wood, from the under side or face of which projects slightly the steel cutting edge of a chisel, called the iron, which inclines backward, with an apperture in front for the escape of shavings; as, the jack plane; the smoothing plane; the molding plane, etc.
- English Word Plane Definition To make smooth; to level; to pare off the inequalities of the surface of, as of a board or other piece of wood, by the use of a plane; as, to plane a plank.
- English Word Plane Definition To efface or remove.