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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- a. & vb. n. fr.
plane , v. t. - A complex machine for planing wood, especially boards, containing usually a rapidly revolving cutter, which chips off the surface in small shavings as the piece to be planed is passed under it by feeding apparatus.
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- verb Present participle of
plane .
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Examples
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If the prayer fellowship is not intentional in planing time, place and goal, it will never happen.
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That's very short term planing, start planing now for the next ten years.
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"This continues to be part of a long-term planing strategy," Parisi said.
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You may need this kind of planing at different levels.
Planet Apache rajith 2010
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Some luthiers won't do partial refrets; and / or, won't do a refret without "planing" the board.
Mandolin Cafe News 2009
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Some luthiers won't do partial refrets; and / or, won't do a refret without "planing" the board.
Mandolin Cafe News 2009
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It also sounds like the kind of planing every other mayor talked about during their campaign, but never got around to.
Portland Mercury 2009
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Where they showed the possession, in any special degree, of a true mechanical faculty, I was enabled to select from the working labourers the most effective men to take charge of the largest and most powerful machine tools ” such as planing machines, lathes, and boring machines.
James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography. Nasmyth, James 1885
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Sat 09/26/09 9: 24 PM hey mscisluv they were planing to release this is it in imax about halfway through his concerts
Just how big will the Michael Jackson movie be? | EW.com 2009
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If Palin was president the US would be at war at least with Iran and North Korea (besides Iraq and Afghanistan), maybe planing going on war with Venezuela, China and Russia.
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