different between plane vs uniform

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ple?n/, [p?l?e?n]
• Rhymes: -e?n
• Homophone: plain

Etymology 1

From Latin pl?num (“flat surface”), a noun use of the neuter of pl?nus (“plain”). The word was introduced in the 17th century to distinguish the geometrical senses from the other senses of plain. Doublet of llano, piano, and plain.

Adjective

plane (comparative planer, superlative planest)

1. Of a surface: flat or level.

Translations

Noun

plane (plural planes)

1. A level or flat surface.
2. (geometry) A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane).
   1. (anatomy) An imaginary plane which divides the body into two portions.
3. A level of existence or development.

4. A roughly flat, thin, often moveable structure used to create lateral force by the flow of air or water over its surface, found on aircraft, submarines, etc. (Compare wing, airfoil, hydrofoil.)
5. (computing, Unicode) Any of 17 designated ranges of 2¹⁶ (65,536) sequential code points each.

Hyponyms

• (mathematics): real plane, complex plane
• (anatomy): coronal plane, frontal plane, sagittal plane, transverse plane
• (control surface): diving plane
• (Unicode): BMP, PUP, SIP, SMP, SPUA, SSP, supplementary plane, TIP

Derived terms

Related terms

• plain
• planar
• planate

Descendants

• ? Irish: plána

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English plane, plaine, from Anglo-Norman plaine, from Late Latin pl?na (“planing tool”).

Noun

plane (plural planes)

1. (countable) A tool for smoothing wood by removing thin layers from the surface.

Translations

See also

• rhykenologist

Verb

plane (third-person singular simple present planes, present participle planing, simple past and past participle planed)

1. (transitive) To smooth (wood) with a plane.

Translations

Etymology 3

Clipping of aeroplane.

Noun

plane (plural planes)

1. An airplane; an aeroplane.
2. (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies, of various genera, having a slow gliding flight.

   Synonym: aeroplane

3. (entomology) The butterfly Bindahara phocides, family Lycaenidae, of Asia and Australasia.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

plane (third-person singular simple present planes, present participle planing, simple past and past participle planed)

1. (nautical) To move in a way that lifts the bow of a boat out of the water.
2. To glide or soar.

Translations

Etymology 4

From Middle English plane, borrowed from Old French plane, from Latin platanus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (plátanos), from ?????? (platús, “wide, broad”).

Noun

plane (plural planes)

2. (countable) A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus.
3. (Northern UK) A sycamore.

Derived terms

• oriental plane

Translations

Further reading

• Plane on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Alpen, Nepal, Palen, palen, panel, penal, plena

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plan/
• Homophone: planes

Adjective

plane

1. feminine singular of plan

Verb

plane

1. first-person singular present indicative of planer
2. third-person singular present indicative of planer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of planer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of planer
5. second-person singular imperative of planer

Anagrams

• Népal, pénal

German

Pronunciation

Verb

plane

1. inflection of planen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Latin

Etymology

From pl?nus (“intelligible, clear”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pla?.ne?/, [?p??ä?ne?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pla.ne/, [?pl??n?]

Adverb

pl?n? (comparative pl?nius, superlative pl?nissim?)

1. plainly (to the senses or understanding), distinctly, intelligibly
2. (emphasising correctness) clearly, obviously
   1. (also used as an affirmative answer)
3. wholly, utterly, thoroughly, quite

Related terms

• pl?nus

Descendants

• Hungarian: pláne

References

• “pl?n?” on page 1526 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)

Further reading

• plane in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• plane in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• plane in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• plane in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Anagrams

• pl?n?, pl?na

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

plane

1. definite singular of plan
2. plural of plan

Portuguese

Verb

plane

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of planar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of planar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of planar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of planar

Swedish

Adjective

plane

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of plan.

Anagrams

• Nepal, alpen

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French uniforme, from Latin uniformis.

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: yo?o?n?-fôrm, IPA^(key): /?jun??f??m/, /?jun?f?m/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ju?n?f??m/
• Hyphenation: uni?form
• Rhymes: -??(r)m

Adjective

uniform (comparative more uniform, superlative most uniform)

1. Unvarying; all the same.
2. Consistent; conforming to one standard.
   • 1593, Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, in 1830, The Ecclesiastical Polity and Other Works of Richard Hooker, page 313,

     The only doubt is, about the manner of their unity; how far Churches are bound to be uniform in their Ceremonies, and what way they ought to take for that purpose.

3. (mathematics) with speed of convergence not depending on choice of function argument; as in uniform continuity, uniform convergence
4. (chemistry, of a polymer) Composed of a single macromolecular species.
5. (geometry) (of a polyhedron) That is isogonal and whose faces are regular polygons; (of an n-dimensional (n>3) polytope) that is isogonal and whose bounding (n-1)-dimensional facets are uniform polytopes.

Usage notes

• As a description of polymers, the IUPAC prefers the term uniform to monodisperse.

Synonyms

• (unvarying): regular, stable; see also Thesaurus:steady
• (all the same): invariable, of a piece; see also Thesaurus:homogeneous

Antonyms

• nonuniform

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

uniform (plural uniforms)

1. A distinctive outfit that serves to identify members of a group.
   • 1932, Elmer Wheeler, Tested Selling Sentences (the Language of the Brain): Master Book

     The Hooverette [housedress] can be worn as a dress or as an apron.

     This is the latest in uniforms, madam, according to Vogue.

   • F. W. Robertson

     There are many things which a soldier will do in his plain clothes which he scorns to do in his uniform.
2. Uniform, the letter U in the ICAO spelling alphabet
3. A uniformed police officer (as opposed to a detective).
   • 1996, S. J. Rozan, Concourse,^[2] Macmillan, ?ISBN, page 265,

     Skeletor held the gun against Speedo’s head, held Speedo between himself and the cops who stood, motionless and futile, where they’d stopped. Robinson, Lindfors, Carter, three uniforms and I watched helpless as Skeletor, dragging Speedy with him, inched out the gate, started backing down the hill.

   • 2001, Christine Wiltz, The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld,^[3] Da Capo Press, ?ISBN, page 113,

     Four men flew out of it, three uniforms and one in what appeared to be an English riding outfit—boots, whip, the whole nine yards. […] He called out, “I’m the superintendent of police.”

   • 2004, Will Christopher Baer, Penny Dreadful,^[4] MacAdam/Cage Publishing, ?ISBN, page 81,

     Eyes to the front now and there was the body, a lump of black and brown. Moon counted three uniforms and a photographer, the medical examiner and his assistant.

Translations

Verb

uniform (third-person singular simple present uniforms, present participle uniforming, simple past and past participle uniformed)

1. (transitive) To clothe in a uniform.

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French uniforme, from Latin ?nif?rmis.

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): /?y.ni?f?rm/
• Hyphenation: uni?form

Noun

uniform n (plural uniformen, diminutive uniformpje n)

1. Uniform; a distinctive outfit. [from 18th c.]

Derived terms

• politie-uniform

Descendants

• Afrikaans: uniform

Pronunciation 2

• IPA^(key): /?yni?f?rm/
• Hyphenation: uni?form
• Rhymes: -?rm

Adjective

uniform (comparative uniformer, superlative uniformst)

1. Uniform. [from 16th c.]

Inflection

Descendants

• Afrikaans: uniform

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

uniform m or f (definite singular uniforma or uniformen, indefinite plural uniformer, definite plural uniformene)

1. a uniform

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

uniform f (definite singular uniforma, indefinite plural uniformer, definite plural uniformene)

1. a uniform

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /u??i.f?rm/

Noun

uniform m inan

1. (rare) uniform

Declension

Synonyms

• mundur, mundurek

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?nif?rmis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u.ni?form/

Adjective

uniform m or n (feminine singular uniform?, masculine plural uniformi, feminine and neuter plural uniforme)

1. uniform

Declension

Related terms

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin uniformis.

Pronunciation

Noun

uniform c

1. Uniform; a distinctive outfit.

Declension

References

• uniform in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB) (noun)
• uniform in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB) (adjective)