different between plank vs plana

English

Etymology

From Middle English plank, planke, borrowed from Old French planke, Old Northern French planque (compare French planche, from Old French planche), from Vulgar Latin planca, from palanca, from Latin phalanga. The Latin term derives from the Ancient Greek ?????? (phálanx), so it is thus a doublet of phalange and phalanx. Compare also the doublet planch, borrowed later from Middle French.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plæ?k/
• Rhymes: -æ?k
• Homophone: Planck

Noun

plank (plural planks)

1. A long, broad and thick piece of timber, as opposed to a board which is less thick.
2. (figuratively) A political issue that is of concern to a faction or a party of the people and the political position that is taken on that issue.
3. Physical exercise in which one holds a pushup position for a measured length of time.
4. (Britain, slang) A stupid person, idiot.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:idiot

5. That which supports or upholds.
   • 1829, Robert Southey, Sir Thomas More; or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society

     His charity is a better plank than the faith of an intolerant and bitter-minded bigot.

Derived terms

• plank spanker
• walk the plank

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: plangk

Translations

Verb

plank (third-person singular simple present planks, present participle planking, simple past and past participle planked)

1. (transitive) To cover something with planking.
2. (transitive) To bake (fish, etc.) on a piece of cedar lumber.
   • 1998, Richard Gerstell, American Shad in the Susquehanna River Basin (page 147)

     Along the lower river, planked shad dinners (baked and broiled) were highly popular during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

3. (transitive, colloquial) To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash.

4. (transitive) To harden, as hat bodies, by felting.
5. To splice together the ends of slivers of wool, for subsequent drawing.
6. (intransitive) To pose for a photograph while lying rigid, face down, arms at side, in an unusual place.

Translations

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch plank, from Middle Dutch planke, from Old Dutch [Term?], from Old Northern French planke, from Late Latin planca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pla?k/

Noun

plank (plural planke, diminutive plankie)

1. A plank.

Derived terms

• branderplank

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch planke, from Old Dutch *planca, from Old Northern French planke, from Late Latin planca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl??k/
• Hyphenation: plank
• Rhymes: -??k

Noun

plank f (plural planken, diminutive plankje n)

1. shelf
2. (wooden) plank

Derived terms

• boekenplank
• duikplank
• loopplank
• op de planken
• plankenkoorts
• plankgas
• springplank
• surfplank
• van de bovenste plank

Descendants

• Afrikaans: plank
• ? Sranan Tongo: planga

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English plank.

Noun

plank m (invariable)

1. (neologism) plank (physical exercise)

Swedish

Noun

plank n

1. a high wooden fence which completely prevents any seeing-through

Declension

Derived terms

• bullerplank

English

Noun

plana

1. plural of planum

Anagrams

• LANAP, LAPAN, Lapan

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?pla.n?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?pla.na/

Noun

plana f (plural planes)

1. plain (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

   Synonyms: planura, planícia

2. flounder

   Synonym: rèmol de riu

Adjective

plana f sg

1. feminine singular of pla

Further reading

• “plana” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “plana” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “plana” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “plana” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Verb

plana

1. third-person singular past historic of planer

Anagrams

• palan

Galician

Adjective

plana f sg

1. feminine singular of plano

Icelandic

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin pl?nus (“level, flat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?la?na/
• Rhymes: -a?na

Verb

plana (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative planaði, supine planað)

1. (informal) to plan

   Synonym: skipuleggja

2. (mechanics' jargon) to plane (make flat, level)

Conjugation

Italian

Verb

plana

1. third-person singular present indicative of planare
2. second-person singular imperative of planare

Latin

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

•  pl?n?t?rium

Noun

pl?na f (genitive pl?nae); first declension

1. (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) smoothing plane

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

pl?na

• Bresciano: piona
• Catalan: plana
• Comasco: piana, piona
• Old French: plaine
  • ? Middle English: plaine, plaine
    • English: plane
    • ? Irish: plána
• Friulian: plana
• Istriot: spiana
• Ladin: plana
• Lombard: piana
• Neapolitan: chiana
• Sardinian: prana
• Piedmontese: piana
• Portuguese: plaina
• Old Occitan: plana
• Sicilian: chiana
• Spanish: llana, plana
• Trentino: piona
• Venetian: piana
• Veronese: piona
• ? Greek: ????? (pláni)

*pl?nea

• Northern Italian: piagna
• ? Greek: ?????? (plánia)
  • ? Ottoman Turkish: ??????? (planya)
    • Turkish: planya
• ? Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ??????

  Latin: bl?nja

*pl?nula

• Italian: pialla

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

pl?na

1. nominative feminine singular of pl?nus
2. nominative neuter plural of pl?nus
3. accusative neuter plural of pl?nus
4. vocative feminine singular of pl?nus
5. nominative neuter plural of pl?nus

Adjective

pl?n?

1. ablative feminine singular of pl?nus

References

• plana in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• plana in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• plana in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Mussafia, Adolf (1873) Beitrag zur Kunde der norditalienischen Mundarten im XV. Jahrhunderte (Denkschriften der Philosophisch-Historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften; 22), Wien: In Commission bei Karl Gerold’s Sohn, page 88

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

plana n pl

1. definite plural of plan

Occitan

Pronunciation

Adjective

plana

1. feminine singular of plan

Old Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pl?na.

Noun

plana f

1. stain

Descendants

• Polish: plama
  • ? Belarusian: ?????? (pljáma)
  • ? Ukrainian: ?????? (pljáma)

Further reading

• M. Arcta S?ownik Staropolski/P (ca?o??) on the Polish Wikisource.pl.Wikisource:M. Arcta S?ownik Staropolski/P (ca?o??)
• “plama”, in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego?^[1], 2013

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??na

Adjective

plana

1. feminine singular of plano

Romanian

Etymology

From French planer.

Verb

a plana (third-person singular present planeaz?, past participle planat) 1st conj.

1. to plane

Conjugation

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?plana/, [?pla.na]

Adjective

plana

1. feminine singular of plano

Noun

plana f (plural planas)

1. face; side (of a sheet of paper)
2. page (of a newspaper)

Derived terms

• a toda plana
• enmendar la plana

Swedish

Etymology

From plan +? -a.

Adjective

plana

1. absolute singular definite and plural form of plan.

Verb

plana (present planar, preterite planade, supine planat, imperative plana)

1. plane; to move in a way that lifts the bow of a boat out of the water

Conjugation

See also

• Medelplana
• plana ut