plan

Meaning

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.
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.

Verb

1. To design (a building, machine, etc.).
2. To create a plan for.
3. To intend.
4. To make a plan.

Concepts

plan

scheme

design

project

plot

intention

intend

program

purpose

blueprint

contrive

idea

schedule

devise

diagram

arrange

aim

programme

sketch

prepare

device

policy

layout

drawing

outline

draft

think

map

intent

stratagem

arrangement

method

meaning

attempt

strategy

mean

contrivance

chart

system

goal

propose

conspire

order

engineer

decide

desire

pattern

schema

ground plan

proposal

invent

consider

expedient

illustration

plane

objective

contemplate

trick

frame

organize

means

manner

way

be after

figure

lay out

wish

opinion

picture

thought

create

calculate

artifice

undertaking

structure

suggestion

form

agenda

tactics

conceive

map out

dream

butt

end

target

maneuver

planning

scale

scope

conception

invention

estimate

try

principle

preparation

mastermind

procedure

floor plan

rule

mode

architectural plan

graph

fashion

course

model

plan out

compose

mark out

conspiracy

concept

plat

draw

think over

preparations

reckon

projection

road map

report

set

aspiration

speculate

decision

view

expect

compass

will

image

deliberate

adumbrate

cast

pitch

throw

toss

discussion

insinuation

candyfloss

chalk out

designate

incubate

mould

shape

wile

draftsman

manoeuvre

program formulation

programme formulation

undertake

intrigue

frame up

play a trick

axis

axle

raising

ready wit

aspire to

set aims

envision

form a plan

intend to do

investigate

anticipation

calculation

expectations

arrangements

have a plan

have in mind

aim at

endeavor

strive

think of a way

summary

synopsis

task

framework

group

estimate roughly

suppose

object

concoct

porject

format

game

direct

scenario

make ready

draw a plan

concert

dart

delineation

disposition

lay

meditate

rede

make a project

craft

settle

imagine

picture to oneself

see in imagination

think about

think out

visualize

syllabus

desig

clue

hint

building plan

found

designing

draff

prospectus

cogitate

pencil

paper

graph table

graphic chart

graphical chart

graphical plot

flat sheet

groundd plan

line map

orthographic plan

orthographical plan

plain view drawing

plan sheet

plan sketch

plan view

plane figure

plane graph

planimetric map

contour diagram

contour record

line drawing

outline drawing

skeleton drawing

skeleton layout

care

foresight

intend to

rough draft

be planned

happen

know

be visible

precise

measures

move

steps

formulate

think of

account

impute

think upon

drive

get

formula

schematic

schematization

block out

connive

make up

aspire

purport

determination

time

assign

define

establish

ambition

game plan

reflect

recollect

remember

figure out

agree on

plans

lay down

set out

set up

anticipate

foretell

prophesy

code

put on

show

stage

agend

tatcic

aim for

to be go to

brew

mediate

be going

conviction

be intent

determine

configure

appointment

destiny

fix up

conduct

handle

manage

pursue

seek

trap

bring about

tricks

guidelines

agreement

Bristol board

schemat

animus

timetable

ploy

strategies

psyche

predestinate

predestine

path

road

route

street

track

appoint

authority

command

control

dominion

govern

judge

judgement

law

punish

regulation

fancy

mind

lift up

raise

keeping

promise

force

whip

Pronounced as (IPA)

/plæn/

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.

Sentences

The plan may be to die together , or separately and closely timed .