plan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: plăn
ipa: /plæn/
note: /æ/ tensing
ipa: [plɛən]
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: plans
Etymology: Borrowed from French plan (“a ground-plot of a building”), from plan (“flat”), a later form of the vernacular plain, from Latin planus (“flat, plane”); see plain, plane.
Senses: examples: text: The plans for many important buildings were once publicly available.
synonyms: word: design
word: scheme
word: chart
word: design
word: diagram
word: map
word: graph
word: graphic
word: plan
word: plot
word: schematic
word: scheme
glosses: A drawing showing technical details of a building, machine, etc., with unwanted details omitted, and often using symbols rather than detailed drawing to represent doors, valves, etc.
examples: text: He didn't really have a plan; he had a goal and a habit of control.
text: Life is what happens to you / While you're busy making other plans
ref: 1980, John Lennon, “Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)”, in Double Fantasy:
synonyms: word: design
word: scheme
word: blueprint
word: design
word: plan
word: plot
word: project
word: proposal
word: scheme
glosses: A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.
examples: text: Seen in plan, the building had numerous passageways not apparent to visitors.
synonyms: floor plan
glosses: A two-dimensional drawing of a building as seen from above with obscuring or irrelevant details such as roof removed, or of a floor of a building, revealing the internal layout; as distinct from the elevation.
examples: text: The simple plan, / That they should take who have the power, / And they should keep who can.
ref: 1815, William Wordsworth, Rob Roy's Grave:
glosses: A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
examples: text: a phone plan
text: an Internet plan
glosses: A subscription to a service.
Synonyms: sense: 2-dimensional drawing of a building
word: blueprint
Derived terms: according to plan
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no battle plan survives contact with the enemy
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