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Plan

/plæn/

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.

📖 Definitions of "Plan"

noun
  1. 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. 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."

  3. 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. 4

    A method; a way of procedure; a custom.

verb
  1. 1

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

    "The architect planned the building for the client."

  2. 2

    To create a plan for.

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

  3. 3

    To intend.

    "He planned to go, but work intervened."

  4. 4

    To make a plan.

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

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