plan
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French plan (“flat surface, ground plot, map”), from Latin plānus. Some sources also argue for influence or alteration of French plant, from plantar, from Latin plantāre (“set, fix in place”). Compare plane, plain.
Inflected forms:
form: plans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: plans
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: planning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: planned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: planned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: The plans for many important buildings were once publicly available.
gloss: A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.
pos: noun
examples: He didn't really have a plan; he had a goal and a habit of control.
Sweet darling, don't you know somewhere / In the land where plans are made / Someone has written a story / Put down the pen and turn the page
Life is what happens to you / While you're busy making other plans
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: Seen in plan, the building had numerous passageways not apparent to visitors.
gloss: A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
pos: noun
examples: The simple plan, / That they should take who have the power, / And they should keep who can.
gloss: A subscription to a service.
pos: noun
examples: a phone plan
an Internet plan
gloss: To design (a building, machine, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The architect planned the building for the client.
gloss: To create a plan for.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They jointly planned the project in phases, with good detail for the first month.
gloss: To intend.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He planned to go, but work intervened.
It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.
gloss: To make a plan.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: They planned for the worst, bringing lots of emergency supplies.
Synonyms: blueprint
Derived words: according to plan
action plan
American plan
attack plan
band plan
battleplan
bayplan
birth plan
body plan
business plan
Cadillac plan
cafeteria plan
campaign plan
Chequers plan
city plan
contingency plan
development plan
dividend reinvestment plan
escalation plan
European plan
flatplan
flight plan
floor plan
floor plan lending
Fugu Plan
game plan
go to plan
grid plan
groundplan
ground plan
ground-plan
installment plan
Keogh plan
lesson plan
life plan
marketing plan
Marshall Plan
master plan
masterplan
megaplan
Mississippi plan
modified American plan
New Jersey Plan
newsplan
no battle plan survives contact with the enemy
no battle plan survives first contact with the enemy
nonplan
no plan survives contact with the enemy
no plan survives first contact with the enemy
off-plan
off the plan
open floor plan
open-plan
open-plan kitchen
oplan
party plan
passage plan
pension plan
plan A
plan B
plan C
plan chest
plandemic
planform
planful
planholder
planify
planism
planist
planless
plan of action
plan of attack
plan of campaign
Plan of Campaign
planogram
planomania
plansifter
price plan
query plan
rate plan
retirement annuity plan
sail-plan
seating plan
shareholder rights plan
showplan
sounds like a plan
subplan
time plan
title plan
top-hat plan
to plan
track plan
trackplan
counterplan
foreplan
misplan
plannee
outplan
overplan
plan ahead
plannability
plannable
planner
plan on
plan out
preplan
replan
underplan
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