Word Meanings - PLANE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any tree of the genus Platanus. Note: The Oriental plane is a native of Asia. It rises with a straight, smooth, branching stem to a great height, with palmated leaves, and long pendulous peduncles, sustaining several heads of small close-sitting

Additional info about word: PLANE

Any tree of the genus Platanus. Note: The Oriental plane is a native of Asia. It rises with a straight, smooth, branching stem to a great height, with palmated leaves, and long pendulous peduncles, sustaining several heads of small close-sitting flowers. The seeds are downy, and collected into round, rough, hard balls. The Occidental plane , which grows to a great height, is a native of North America, where it is popularly called sycamore, buttonwood, and buttonball, names also applied to the California species

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PLANE)

• Level
• Plane
• surface
• floor
• equality
• aim
• platform
• ground
• coordinateness
• horizontally
• Level Plane
• smooth
• roll
• flatten
• equalize
• raze
• Levigate
• Comminute
• triturate
• pulverize
• polish
• plane
• Side
• Margin
• edge
• verge
• border
• laterality
• face
• aspect
• party
• interest
• cause
• policy
• behalf

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PLANE)

• Roughen
• furrow
• disequalize
• graduate
• Decline
• deviate
• revert
• depart
• recede
• return
• back
• retrocede

Related words: (words related to PLANE)

• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• VERGER
  One who carries a verge, or emblem of office. Specifically: -- An attendant upon a dignitary, as on a bishop, a dean, a justice, etc. Strype. The official who takes care of the interior of a church building.
• MARGINALIA
  Marginal notes.
• FLATTEN
  To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch. To flatten a sail , to set it more nearly fore-and-aft of the vessel. -- Flattening oven, in glass making, a heated chamber in which split glass cylinders
• PLANE TREE
  See PLANE
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• REVERT
  To change back. See Revert, v. i. To revert a series , to treat a series, as y = a + bx + cx2 + etc., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x, so as to find therefrom the second variable x, expressed in a series arranged
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• PARTY
  1. A part or portion. "The most party of the time." Chaucer. 2. A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided
• SURFACE LOADING
  The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface.
• HORIZONTALLY
  In a horizontal direction or position; on a level; as, moving horizontally.
• MARGINALLY
  In the margin of a book.
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• POLISHMENT
  The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
• EQUALIZER
  One who, or that which, equalizes anything.
• MARGINAL
  1. Of or pertaining to a margin. 2. Written or printed in the margin; as, a marginal note or gloss.
• DEPARTURE
  The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Division; separation; putting away. No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.
• DEPARTMENT
  1. Act of departing; departure. Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton. 2. A part, portion, or subdivision. 3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. Superior to Pope in Pope's
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• SEA LEVEL
  The level of the surface of the sea; any surface on the same level with the sea.
• UNINTERESTED
  1. Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business. 2. Not having the mind or the passions engaged; as, uninterested in a discourse or narration.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.