aeroplane | (noun) an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets | Synonyms: airplane, plane |
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airplane | (noun) an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets | Synonyms: aeroplane, plane |
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aquaplane | (noun) a board that is pulled by a speedboat as a person stands on it and skims over the top of the water | - |
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(verb) ride on an aquaplane | - |
(verb) rise up onto a thin film of water between the tires and road so that there is no more contact with the road | - |
avellane | (adjective) pertaining to filberts or hazelnuts | Synonyms: avellan |
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biplane | (noun) old fashioned airplane; has two wings one above the other | - |
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deplane | (verb) get off an airplane | - |
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emplane | (verb) board a plane | Synonyms: enplane |
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enplane | (verb) board a plane | Synonyms: emplane |
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exoplanet | (noun) A planet which exists outside Earth's solar system | - |
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floatplane | (noun) a seaplane equipped with pontoons for landing or taking off from water | Synonyms: pontoon plane |
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gyroplane | (noun) an aircraft that is supported in flight by unpowered rotating horizontal wings (or blades); forward propulsion is provided by a conventional propeller | Synonyms: autogiro, autogyro |
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hydroplane | (noun) an airplane that can land on or take off from water | Synonyms: seaplane |
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(noun) a speedboat that is equipped with winglike structures that lift it so that it skims the water at high speeds | Synonyms: hydrofoil |
(verb) glide on the water in a hydroplane | Synonyms: seaplane |
interplanetary | (adjective) between or among planets | - |
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lane | (noun) a narrow way or road | - |
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(noun) a well-defined track or path; for e.g. swimmers or lines of traffic | - |
lepidomelane | (noun) a mica that is a biotite containing iron | - |
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midplane | (noun) the median plane of the body (or some part of the body) | Synonyms: midline |
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miscellanea | (noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: assortment, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety |
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miscellaneous | (adjective) consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds | Synonyms: assorted, mixed, motley, sundry |
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(adjective) having many aspects or qualities | Synonyms: many-sided, multifaceted, multifarious |
monoplane | (noun) an airplane with a single wing | - |
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multilane | (adjective) (of roads and highways) having two or more lanes for traffic | - |
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peneplane | (noun) a more or less level land surface representing an advanced stage of erosion undisturbed by crustal movements | Synonyms: peneplain |
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plane | (adjective) having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another | Synonyms: flat, level |
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(noun) a carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood | Synonyms: carpenter's plane, woodworking plane |
(noun) an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets | Synonyms: aeroplane, airplane |
(noun) a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood | Synonyms: planer, planing machine |
(noun) (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape | Synonyms: sheet |
(noun) a level of existence or development | - |
(verb) cut or remove with or as if with a plane | Synonyms: shave |
(verb) make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane | - |
(verb) travel on the surface of water | Synonyms: skim |
planeness | (noun) the property of having two dimensions | Synonyms: flatness, two-dimensionality |
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planer | (noun) a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood | Synonyms: plane, planing machine |
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planet | (noun) (astronomy) any of the nine large celestial bodies in the solar system that revolve around the sun and shine by reflected light; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in order of their proximity to the sun; viewed from the constellation Hercules, all the planets rotate around the sun in a counterclockwise direction | Synonyms: major planet |
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(noun) any celestial body (other than comets or satellites) that revolves around a star | - |
(noun) a person who follows or serves another | Synonyms: satellite |
planetal | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling the physical or orbital characteristics of a planet or the planets | Synonyms: planetary |
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planetarium | (noun) an apparatus or model for representing the solar systems | - |
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(noun) an optical device for projecting images of celestial bodies and other astronomical phenomena onto the inner surface of a hemispherical dome | - |
(noun) a building housing an instrument for projecting the positions of the planets onto a domed ceiling | - |
planetary | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling the physical or orbital characteristics of a planet or the planets | Synonyms: planetal |
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(adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants | Synonyms: terrestrial |
(adjective) involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope | Synonyms: global, world-wide, world, worldwide |
(adjective) having no fixed course | Synonyms: erratic, wandering |
planetesimal | (noun) one of many small solid celestial bodies thought to have existed at an early stage in the development of the solar system | - |
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planetoid | (noun) any of numerous small celestial bodies that move around the sun | Synonyms: minor planet |
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psilomelane | (noun) a mineral consisting of hydrated basic oxide of manganese and barium; a source of manganese | - |
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purslane | (noun) a plant of the family Portulacaceae having fleshy succulent obovate leaves often grown as a potherb or salad herb; a weed in some areas | - |
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sailplane | (noun) aircraft supported only by the dynamic action of air against its surfaces | Synonyms: glider |
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(verb) fly a plane without an engine | Synonyms: soar |
seaplane | (noun) an airplane that can land on or take off from water | Synonyms: hydroplane |
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(verb) glide on the water in a hydroplane | Synonyms: hydroplane |
tailplane | (noun) the horizontal airfoil of an aircraft's tail assembly that is fixed and to which the elevator is hinged | Synonyms: horizontal stabiliser, horizontal stabilizer |
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warplane | (noun) an aircraft designed and used for combat | Synonyms: military plane |
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