Collocations for "plane"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "plane" in context.
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plane
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [commercial, war, fighter, military, private] plane
- a [747] plane
- a [paper, toy, remote control] plane
- the plane [flew, landed, took off, crashed]
- the plane was [delayed, grounded, overbooked, on time]
- [read, sleep, study, chat] on the plane
- [clean, check, service, pilot] the plane
- [catch, take, get on] a plane
- (take) a plane from [London] to [New York]
- got off the plane
- [parachuted, skydived, jumped, leaped] from a plane
- jumped out of a plane
- the plane's [wings, turbine, fuselage, seats]
- the [wings] of the plane
- [a flat, a horizontal, a perpendicular, an oblique] plane
- the [surface, dashboard, forehead] plane
- the plane of the [surface]
- [horizontal, vertical] lines on the plane
- on a higher plane
- on this plane of existence
- the [moral, spiritual, existential] plane
- a plane engine
- a plane [seat, ticket, meal, crash]
- [need, use] a plane surface
- [place, put] on a plane surface
'plane' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Paris
- airborne
- approach
- arrival
- arrive
- baggage
- bank
- banner
- board
- bow
- break
- brush
- burn
- cabin
- canopy
- captain
- cargo
- charter
- chartered
- circle
- cleavage
- cliff
- cloud
- cockpit
- collide
- connection
- contact
- control
- convey
- courier
- cranky
- crash
- crew
- cruise
- defy
- descent
- destination
- determination
- dip
- direct
- distress
- dive
- doom
- doorway
- down
- drag
- drift
- drop
- dual
- due