different between shape vs plane

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: sh?p, IPA^(key): /?e?p/
• Rhymes: -e?p

Etymology

From Middle English shap, schape, from Old English ?esceap (“shape, form, created being, creature, creation, dispensation, fate, condition, sex, gender, genitalia”), from Proto-West Germanic *ga- + *skap, from Proto-Germanic *ga- + *skap? (“shape, nature, condition”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (“to split, cut”). Cognate with Middle Dutch schap (“form”), Middle High German geschaf (“creature”), Icelandic skap (“state, condition, temper, mood”).

The verb is from Middle English shapen, schapen, from Old English scieppan (“to shape, form, make, create, assign, arrange, destine, order, adjudge”), from Proto-Germanic *skapjan? (“to create”), from the noun. Cognate with Dutch scheppen, German schaffen, Swedish skapa (“create, make”), Norwegian skapa (“create”).

Noun

shape (countable and uncountable, plural shapes)

1. The status or condition of something

   The used bookshop wouldn't offer much due to the poor shape of the book.

2. Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.

   The vet checked to see what kind of shape the animal was in.

   We exercise to keep in good physical shape.

3. The appearance of something in terms of its arrangement in space, especially its outline; often a basic geometric two-dimensional figure.

   He cut a square shape out of the cake.

   What shape shall we use for the cookies? Stars, circles, or diamonds?

4. Form; formation.
   • 2006, Berdj Kenadjian, Martin Zakarian, From Darkness to Light:

     What if God's plans and actions do mold the shape of human events?

5. (iron manufacture) A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.
6. (iron manufacture) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.
7. (cooking, now rare) A mould for making jelly, blancmange etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded into a particular shape.
   • 1918, Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier, Virago 2014, page 74:

     ‘And if I'm late for supper there's a dish of macaroni cheese you must put in the oven and a tin of tomatoes to eat with it. And there's a little rhubarb and shape.’

   • 1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus 2014, p. 111:

     It was brawn and shape for high tea.

8. (gambling) A loaded die.
   • 1961, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Gambling and Organized Crime: Hearings (page 76)

     A top cheater seldom ever uses shapes or loaded dice because they do not assure you of winning.

9. (programming) In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a data type.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:shape

Hyponyms

• contest shape

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Forms and shapes

Verb

shape (third-person singular simple present shapes, present participle shaping, simple past shaped or (obsolete) shope, past participle shaped or (archaic) shapen)

1. (Northern England, Scotland, rare) To create or make.
   • 1685, Satan's Invisible World Discovered?

     Which the mighty God of heaven shope.

2. (transitive) To give something a shape and definition.
   • 1932, The American Scholar, page 227, United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa

     The professor never pretended to the academic prerogative of forcing his students into his own channels of reasoning; he entered into and helped shape the discussion but above all he made his men learn to think for themselves and rely upon their own intellectual judgments.

3. To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.
   • 1709, Matthew Prior, Pleasure

     Grace shaped her limbs, and beauty decked her face.
4. (of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.
5. To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
6. (obsolete) To imagine; to conceive.

Synonyms

• (give shape): form, mold

Derived terms

• beshape
• foreshape
• forshape
• misshape
• overshape
• shape up

Translations

References

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language
• shape in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• shape at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• HEPAs, Heaps, ephas, heaps, phase

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