Crossword clues for planing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Plane \Plane\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Planed; p. pr. & vb. n. Planing.] [Cf. F. planer, L. planare, fr. planus. See Plane, a., Plain, a., and cf. Planish.]
To make smooth; to level; to pare off the inequalities of the surface of, as of a board or other piece of wood, by the use of a plane; as, to plane a plank.
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To efface or remove.
He planed away the names . . . written on his tables.
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Figuratively, to make plain or smooth. [R.]
What student came but that you planed her path.
--Tennyson.
Planing \Plan"ing\, a. & vb. n. fr. Plane, v. t. Planing machine.
See Planer.
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.
Wiktionary
n. The act by which something is planed. vb. (present participle of plane English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Planing may refer to:
- Planing (boat) or hydroplaning, a method by which a hull skims over the surface of the water
- Hydroplaning (tires), a loss of traction caused by a layer of water between the tires and the road surface
- Using a plane (tool) to smooth a flat surface of a piece of wood
- Operating a Planer (metalworking) to produce a flat surface
- Harmonic planing (music), chords that move in parallel motion, thereby eliminating any feeling of harmonic progression
- Scaling and root planing, the removal of dental plaque
- Planing (shaping), material removal process
Planing is the mode of operation for a waterborne craft in which its weight is predominantly supported by hydrodynamic lift, rather than hydrostatic lift ( buoyancy).
Planing is a manufacturing process of material removal in which the workpiece reciprocates against a stationary cutting tool producing a plane or sculpted surface. Planing is analogous to shaping. The main difference between these two processes is that in shaping the tool reciprocates across the stationary workpiece. Planing motion is the opposite of shaping. Both planing and shaping are rapidly being replaced by milling.
The mechanism used for this process is known as a planer. The size of the planer is determined by the largest workpiece that can be machined on it. The cutting tools are usually carbide tipped or made of high speed steel and resemble those used in facing and turning.
Usage examples of "planing".
She lifted rapidly, driven forward by her multiple motors, so that much of the lift, or planing effect, of the air was taken advantage of.
These weak-minded beasts even got in the way of the laborers trimming branches from downed trees or scraping off bark or planing logs with stone adzes and axes.
All this time Mr. Guppy was either planing his forehead with his handkerchief or tightly rubbing the palm of his left hand with the palm of his right.
I turned up the radio to cover the engine noise, then slowly increased our speed until we were planing across the waves like some kind of mongrel Cigarette boat.
This was the ease with the self-acting mule, the wool-combing machine, the planing machine, the slotting machine, Nasmyth's steam arm, and many others.
Jesus too had been born in poverty and had worked in the shop of a carpenter, cutting boards and planing them, and had first spoken of the kingdom of God to poor fishermen, teaching all men to be meek and humble of heart.
March, the present mayor of Leeds, head of the celebrated tool-manufacturing firm of that town, that when he first went to work at Matthew Murray's, in 1814, a planing machine of his invention was used to plane the circular part or back of the D valve, which he had by that time introduced in the steam-engine.
Clement, therefore represented a complete union of the turning-lathe with the planing machine and dividing engine, by which turning of the most complicated kind might readily be executed.
The landlord was near spraining his wrist, and I told him for heaven's sake to quit--the bed was soft enough to suit me, and I did not know how all the planing in the world could make eider down of a pine plank.
He has contrived things so various as the self-acting mule and the best electro-magnet, wet gas-meters and dry planing machines, iron billard-tables and turret-clocks, the centrifugal railway and the drill slotting-machine, an apparatus for making cigars and machinery for the propulsion and equipment of steamships.
He took infinite care on the coffin, planing off the inside edges of its lid and sides.
He'd passed one patrol boat, but the crew merely waved in natant admiration at the sight of the yacht planing over the surface of the river.
The practical value of the Planing Machine induced the Society to apply to Mr.
Some idea of this difficulty may be formed from the fact that, in the course of our investigations as to the origin of the planing machine—.
A hundred yards from the entrance to the vacuum chamber, a large conveyor belt carried giant logs to a planing machine twenty feet long and five feet high, with half a dozen razor-sharp cutter heads.