EGAVE

plan

About 107.31 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun 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. noun 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. noun 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. noun A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
  5. noun A subscription to a service.
    a phone plan
  6. verb To design (a building, machine, etc.).
    The architect planned the building for the client.
  7. verb To create a plan for.
    They jointly planned the project in phases, with good detail for the first month.
  8. verb To intend.
    He planned to go, but work intervened.

Similar words

design program project programme contrive architectural plan be after charting diagram figure

Often followed by

of for to and was is in that the

Word family

planless planlessly planlessness planlessnesses planned planning plans

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