1 (aeroplane, airplane) avión (m) my plane leaves at eleven he had plenty of time to catch his plane we bought the cigarettes on the plane
to go by plane ir en avión
we went to Spain by plane
to send goods by plane enviar mercancías por avión
2 (Art) (Mat) (Constr) plano (m) a building with angled planes /all the planets orbit the Sun in roughly the same plane/, round its equator
vertical/horizontal plane plano (m) vertical/horizontal
to move on in a vertical/horizontal plane as your trunk turns and rotates on a fairly horizontal plane, your arms and the club swing on a comparatively vertical plane the dancers cannot travel outwards in a horizontal plane from the narrow platform the up-and-down movements of the legs in a vertical plane aspects of a lighting scheme to be considered include the character and color of the light to be used, the illumination of vertical and horizontal planes
3 nivel (m) he seems to exist on another plane parece vivir en otro nivel or en una esfera distinta; on the ideological plane en el plano ideológico
we felt we were living life on several different planes working out a solution on one plane, we come to one conclusion; thinking it through on another plane, something else appears right hers was life on a higher plane of [existence] they stressed perfection as a way of reaching a higher plane of existence
she tried to lift the conversation onto a higher plane trató de llevar la conversación a un nivel más elevado
it's not something that lifts you to a higher plane of living the way music can