Planes Or Plains Or Plans
Could you please tell me if the word "planes" is okay in the fourth line in the picture below? Or must it be "plans" or "plains"?
Singapore stands on a narrow piece of water, the Strait of Malacca, that is on the main sea route between the West and the Far East. Before planes and before the Panama Canal, almost all goods and people that moved between East Asia and Europe travelled this way.
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In a previous chapter, some projects and plans have been mentioned. This is the picture of that text:
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JA
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Before airplanes, planes. When everything went by sea.
- Before airplanes, planes.
- When everything went by sea.
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Joseph ACould you please tell me if the word "planes" is okay in the fourth line in the picture below?
It is. It means airplanes in AmE or aeroplanes in BrE (informally planes).
0plane = in mathematics, a flat surface in 3-dimensional space; e.g. Planets and the sun seem to move in the plane of the ecliptic.
plane = a short form for the words aeroplane or airplane, a vehicle that can travel in the air
plane (woodworking) = a tool for making wood surfaces flat
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