plan

UK /plæn/ US /plæn/
noun 5verb 4name 3

Definitions

noun

1

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.

The plans for many important buildings were once publicly available.

2

A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.

He didn't really have a plan; he had a goal and a habit of control.

Life is what happens to you / While you're busy making other plans

3

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.

Seen in plan, the building had numerous passageways not apparent to visitors.

4

A method; a way of procedure; a custom.

The simple plan, / That they should take who have the power, / And they should keep who can.

5

A subscription to a service.

a phone plan

an Internet plan

verb

1

To design (a building, machine, etc.).

The architect planned the building for the client.

2

To create a plan for.

They jointly planned the project in phases, with good detail for the first month.

3

To intend.

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.

4

To make a plan.

They planned for the worst, bringing lots of emergency supplies.

name

1

A surname.

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