Plan

/plæn/ · noun

Meaning

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 by Sense

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.
2. A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.
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.
4. A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
5. A subscription to a service.
6. (transitive) To design (a building, machine, etc.).
7. (transitive) To create a plan for.
8. (intransitive) To intend.

Example Sentences

The plans for many important buildings were once publicly available.

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

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

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

a phone plan

an Internet plan

The architect planned the building for the client.

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• plans
• planning
• planned

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