Noun: plank
| Singular | plank |
| Plural | planks |
Sample Sentences
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A dish called "plank salmon" likely includes a salmon filet cooked on a plank.
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That dish is served with a plank of cauliflower.
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Germanization was a central plank of German conservative thinking in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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When Mr. Dole had been asked at the Republican convention about the same immigration amendment—one of the more conservative and sensitive planks—he did not oppose it, but said he would have to think long and hard before supporting it. [1996 August 24, Frank Bruni, “Dole Rejects a Party Plank”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]
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In the 1970s, a group of ideologically inspired economists captured the ears and minds of politicians. The central plank of their ‘neo-liberal’ model was that growth and development depended on market competitiveness; […] [2011, Guy Standing, chapter 1, in The Precariat, Bloomsbury Publishing, published 2016, →ISBN:]
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The party, whose official name (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) translates as Alliance '90/The Greens, grew out of an assortment of social protest movements of the 1980s that eventually unified. Their supporters marched for everything from ending nuclear power to enacting gay rights — while maintaining the key plank of environmental protection. [2025 February 24, Rina Goldenberg, “A guide to Germany's political parties”, in Deutsche Welle:]
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His charity is a better plank than the faith of an intolerant and bitter-minded bigot. [1829, Robert Southey, Sir Thomas More; or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society:]
Nouns inflected like plank
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English plank, planke, borrowed from Old French planke, Old Northern French planque (compare French planche, from Old French planche), from Vulgar Latin planca, from palanca, from Latin phalanga. The Latin term derives from the Ancient Greek φάλαγξ (phálanx), so it is thus a doublet of phalange and phalanx. Compare also the doublets planch, planche, and plancha, borrowed later from Middle French, Modern French, and Spanish, respectively. See: Middle English Nouns '
plank', French Nouns '
planche', Latin Nouns '
phalanga', Ancient Greek Nouns '
φάλαγξ'.
Verbs referencing "plank"
Galician Nouns
panca.