plank
IPA: pɫˈæŋk
noun
- A long, broad and thick piece of timber, as opposed to a board which is less thick.
- (figurative) A political issue that is of concern to a faction or a party of the people and the political position that is taken on that issue.
- Physical exercise in which one holds a pushup position for a measured length of time.
- (Britain, slang) A stupid person, idiot.
- That which supports or upholds.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To cover something with planking.
- (transitive) To bake (fish, etc.) on a piece of cedar lumber.
- (transitive, colloquial) To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash.
- (transitive) To harden, as hat bodies, by felting.
- To splice together the ends of slivers of wool, for subsequent drawing.
- (intransitive) To pose for a photograph while lying rigid, face down, arms at side, in an unusual place.
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Examples of "plank" in Sentences
- November 23rd, 2009 4: 02 pm ET walking the plank is more like it
- Georgia Tech wins in a cakewalk; UGA nearly walks the plank is the next entry in this blog.
- Hitler: “The main plank in the Nationalist Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual …”
- The main plank of these reforms was to legitimise and introduce the demotic idiom as the language of instruction in schools. back
- The Tories hold an 18-month policy review and the main plank that comes out of it involves giving married couples an extra £20 a week.
- When only 2% of a group whose primary plank is taxes have a clue about what is actually happening with taxes ... that speaks volumes about the movement.
- I wonder when Ieuan Wyn Jones will admit the demise of the main plank he walked when he shuffled his troops into the support positions which kept Rhodri Morgan in his job last May.
- AP: If the plank is approved as expected, it would mark the first time the GOP has gone on record in its statement of principles as supporting an amendment against gay marriage ....
- Like a boat whose every plank is replaced while journeying at sea, the first and last drafts have nothing tangible in common no characters, themes or plotand yet are one in the same.
- Adolph Hitler: “The main plank in the Nationalist Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual and the Marxist concept of humanity and to substitute for them the folk community, rooted in the soil and bound together by the bond of its common blood.”
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