"planer" meaning in English

See planer in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈpleɪ̯n.əɹ/, /ˈpɫeɪ̯n.ɚ/ [General-American], /ˈpleɪ̯n.ə/ [Received-Pronunciation]
enPR: plānʹər [Received-Pronunciation] Rhymes: -eɪnə(ɹ) Etymology: plane + -er Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|plane|er}} plane + -er Head templates: {{head|en|comparative adjective}} planer
  1. comparative form of plane: more plane Tags: comparative, form-of Form of: plane (extra: more plane)
    Sense id: en-planer-en-adj-JNP9EoFu

Noun

IPA: /ˈpleɪ̯n.əɹ/, /ˈpɫeɪ̯n.ɚ/ [General-American], /ˈpleɪ̯n.ə/ [Received-Pronunciation] Forms: planers [plural]
enPR: plānʹər [Received-Pronunciation] Rhymes: -eɪnə(ɹ) Etymology: plane + -er Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|plane|er}} plane + -er Head templates: {{en-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. Categories (topical): Woodworking Translations (woodworking tool): 刨子 (bàozi) (Chinese Mandarin), schaaf (Dutch), höylä (Finnish), raboteuse [feminine] (French), Hobel [masculine] (German), Raubank (english: large) [feminine] (German), pialla (Italian), (kanna) (alt: かんな) (Japanese), 대패 (daepae) (Korean), руба́нок (rubánok) [masculine] (Russian), กบ (gòp) (Thai)
    Sense id: en-planer-en-noun-Isp9mC2y Topics: arts, business, carpentry, construction, crafts, hobbies, lifestyle, manufacturing, woodworking Disambiguation of 'woodworking tool': 63 33 4
  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 The planer is nowadays obsolescent, having been mostly superseded by large milling machines. Categories (topical): Mechanical engineering, Tools Translations (large machine tool): höyläkone (Finnish), raboteuse [feminine] (French)
    Sense id: en-planer-en-noun-GK73ivMv Disambiguation of Tools: 2 32 49 17 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -er Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 2 26 66 6 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 2 17 74 7 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er: 2 19 69 10 Topics: engineering, mechanical, mechanical-engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences Disambiguation of 'large machine tool': 8 90 2
  3. (archaic, printing) A wooden block used for forcing down the type in a form, and making the surface even. Tags: archaic Categories (topical): Printing
    Sense id: en-planer-en-noun-a1pFBvjD Topics: media, printing, publishing
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: plane, thickness planer Derived forms: panel planer Related terms: planner, no-planer, planer tree

Inflected forms

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      "word": "schaaf"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "woodworking tool",
      "word": "höylä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "woodworking tool",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "raboteuse"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "woodworking tool",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Hobel"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "english": "large",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "woodworking tool",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Raubank"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "woodworking tool",
      "word": "pialla"
    },
    {
      "alt": "かんな",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kanna",
      "sense": "woodworking tool",
      "word": "鉋"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "daepae",
      "sense": "woodworking tool",
      "word": "대패"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "rubánok",
      "sense": "woodworking tool",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "руба́нок"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "gòp",
      "sense": "woodworking tool",
      "word": "กบ"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "large machine tool",
      "word": "höyläkone"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "large machine tool",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "raboteuse"
    }
  ],
  "word": "planer"
}

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