1. (

• plane ,
• shave ,

) cut or remove with or as if with a plane; "The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood" ;

2. (

• plane ,
• skim

) travel on the surface of water ;

3. (

• plane ,

) make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane; "plane the top of the door" ;

1. (

• flat ,
• level ,
• plane

) having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another; "a flat desk"; "acres of level farmland"; "a plane surface"; "skirts sewn with fine flat seams" ;