word-vault/dist/data/cards/pl/plane.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "plane",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "image": "data/images/ve/vehicles_aircraft.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a flying vehicle with wings and one or more engines",
            "sensetop": "by plane",
            "labels": "British English alsoespecially in North American English(informal)(British English)(North American English)(British English)(especially British English)(both British English)(especially British English)(especially North American English)(both British English)(British English)(North American English also)(especially British English)(especially North American English)(especially British English)(especially North American English)",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a **passenger/fighter/military/private plane**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They **boarded the plane** and flew to Chicago."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I caught the next plane to Dublin."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The **plane took off** an hour late."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The **plane landed** in Geneva."
                },
                {
                    "text": "to **fly a plane**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She left by plane for Berlin.",
                    "contextForm": "by plane"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **plane ticket**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **plane crash**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a plane ride/flight/journey"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I've never flown in a plane."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She caught the first plane out."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The Soviets shot down our U-2 spy plane."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The plane was carrying 350 people."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The plane was cruising at 20 000 feet."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The president was never on the plane at all."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We left by plane for Beijing."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a military cargo plane"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the first generation of passenger planes, like the Boeing 707"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Transport by air"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["light", "small", "commercial"],
                "verb + plane": ["catch", "get", "take"],
                "plane + verb": ["take off", "come down", "land"],
                "plane + noun": ["crash", "ticket"],
                "preposition": ["by plane", "in a/​the plane", "on a/​the plane"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "any flat or level surface, or an imaginary flat surface through or joining material objects",
            "labels": "(geometry)",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the **horizontal/vertical plane**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We may describe uniquely any point in a plane by an ordered pair of numbers, called coordinates."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Maths and measurement"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["flat", "horizontal", "parallel"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a level of thought, existence or development",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "With practice, an athlete can reach a higher plane of achievement."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They seem to exist on a different spiritual plane."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Like all talented musicians, he operates on a different plane from most people."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["higher", "mental", "spiritual"],
                "phrases": ["be on a different plane", "operate on a different plane"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "a tool with a blade (= sharp metal part) set in a flat surface, used for making the surface of wood smooth by cutting very thin layers off it",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/pleɪn/",
                "audio": "pl/plane/plane__gb_3.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/pleɪn/",
                "audio": "pl/plane/plane__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "noun sense 1 early 20th cent.: shortened form. noun senses 2 to 3 early 17th cent.: from Latin planum ‘flat surface’, neuter of the adjective planus ‘plain’. The adjective was suggested by French plan(e) ‘flat’. The word was introduced to differentiate the geometrical senses, previously expressed by plain, from its other meanings. noun sense 4 Middle English: from a variant of obsolete French plaine ‘planing instrument’, from late Latin plana (in the same sense), from Latin planare ‘make level’, from planus ‘plain, level’."
}