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PRONUNCIATION:  pln
INTRANSITIVE VERB:Inflected forms: planed, plan·ing, planes
1. To rise partly out of the water, as a hydroplane does at high speeds. 2. To soar or glide. 3. To travel by airplane.
ETYMOLOGY:Middle English planen, to glide, soar, from Old French planer, from plain, flat, level. See plain.
 
 
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