planer

English

Etymology

plane +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• enPR: plānʹər, IPA^(key): /ˈpleɪ̯n.əɹ/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɫeɪ̯n.ɚ/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpleɪ̯n.ə/
• Homophones: plainer, planar
• Rhymes: -eɪnə(ɹ)

Adjective

planer

1. comparative form of plane: more plane

Noun

planer (plural planers)

1. (woodworking) A tool which smooths a surface or makes one surface of a workpiece parallel to the tool's bed.
2. (mechanical engineering) A large machine tool in which the workpiece is traversed linearly (by means of a reciprocating bed) beneath a single-point cutting tool. (Analogous to a shaper but larger and with the workpiece moving instead of the tool.) Planers can generate various shapes, but were most especially used to generate large, accurate flat surfaces. The planer is nowadays obsolescent, having been mostly superseded by large milling machines.
   • 1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 341:

     Besides the usual run of machines, planers, millers, automatics, centre lathes, cranes, etc., there were several power stations, the rolling mills for strip material and for 60 ft. rails, and all the steel furnaces with their complicated systems of flues. If variety is the spice of life, then there was plenty here.

3. (archaic, printing) A wooden block used for forcing down the type in a form, and making the surface even.
   • 1825, Thomas Curson Hansard, Typographia, an Historical Sketch of the Origin and Progress of the Art of Printing:

     the compositor "planes down" the "forme," to make a the surface of the type stand flat and even, by blows of the mallet upon a piece of smooth wood laid upon the pages, called, from its use, "a planer;" and it is then ready for the pressman

Synonyms

• plane
• thickness planer

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• planner

See also

• no-planer
• planer tree

Anagrams

• replan

Catalan

Etymology

From pla +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

Adjective

planer (feminine planera, masculine plural planers, feminine plural planeres)

1. flat, level

   Synonym: pla

2. easy

   Synonym: fàcil

3. simple

   Synonym: senzill

Derived terms

• becplaner

Further reading

• “planer” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “planer”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “planer” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “planer” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From plain.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pla.ne/

• audio

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Verb

planer

1. to glide, to hover
2. to be entranced, to be mesmerized
3. (slang, of a drug user) to be high

   en planant

   while high

4. (slang) to be going well; to run smoothly

Conjugation

Related terms

• plan

Further reading

• “planer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

German

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Adjective

planer

1. inflection of plan:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

planer m

1. indefinite plural of plan

Verb

planer

1. imperative of planere

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plǎneːr/
• Hyphenation: pla‧ner

Noun

plànēr m (Cyrillic spelling пла̀не̄р)

1. planner

Declension

Swedish

Noun

planer

1. indefinite plural of plan