Difference between Airplane and Plane

What is the difference between Airplane and Plane?

Airplane as a noun is a powered heavier-than air aircraft with fixed wings. while Plane as a noun is a flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane).

Airplane

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A powered heavier-than air aircraft with fixed wings.

Example sentence: When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Plane

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of a surface: flat or level.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To smooth (wood) with a plane.To move in a way that lifts the bow of a boat out of the water.To glide or soar.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane).A level of existence. (eg, astral plane)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.Any of a number of designated ranges of sequential code points.A tool for smoothing wood by removing thin layers from the surface.An airplane; an aeroplane.A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus.A sycamore.

Example sentence: I woke up one time coming out of a blackout, and I was on an airplane, descending to land in Charles de Gaulle Airport in France. And all I can think is I must have decided it was a good idea to go to France, and got my passport, and got on a plane.

We hope you now know whether to use Airplane or Plane in your sentence.

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