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Plan

noun

A series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished. Synonyms: program, programme. "They discussed plans for a new bond issue"

An arrangement scheme. Synonym: design. "It was an excellent design for living" , "A plan for seating guests"

Scale drawing of a structure. Synonym: architectural plan.

verb

(past & past part. planned; pres. part. planning)

Have the will and intention to carry out some action. Synonym: be after. "The rebels had planned turmoil and confusion"

Make plans for something.

Make or work out a plan for; devise. Synonyms: contrive, design, project. "Design a new sales strategy" , "Plan an attack"

Make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form. Synonym: design. "Plan the new wing of the museum"

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"Plan" Quotes from Famous Books

... the float, was such that with Tom and his machine upon the planks the whole platform would float six or eight inches free of the water. To pole or row this unwieldy raft in such a flood would have been quite out of the question, and even in carrying out the plan which Tom now thought furnished his only hope, he knew that the sole chance of success lay in starting right. If the float, through premature or unskilful starting, should get headed downstream, there would be no hope of ...

— Tom Slade Motorcycle Dispatch Bearer • Percy Keese Fitzhugh

... the hill of Chaillot as being the finest site that it was possible to find in France. Their proposition was accepted: the buildings then occupying the height were purchased and torn down, and the works were commenced. The plan of Napoleon was a grandiose one, including not only the palace, to which he gave the name of his son, calling it the "Palace of the King of Rome," but also a series of buildings filling up three out of the four sides of ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 • Various

... prefers the CRITTENDEN plan of adjustment. That we think is now impossible. But that plan does not differ very widely from the report of the majority. Certainly not enough to warrant us in risking the Union, when we can get the one and cannot have the other. For this reason ...

— A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention • Lucius Eugene Chittenden

... I said, "at any rate if he does not I will. I have three weeks and in that three weeks I am going to find the chambermaid. I am going to get a plan of your room and your friend's room, and I'm going to make her understand that she was mistaken. She probably remembered you because of your size: she mistook you for the guilty person; everybody has always taken you for the ringleader and not ...

— Oscar Wilde, Volume 1 (of 2) - His Life and Confessions • Frank Harris

... I have a simple plan; my own early geography lessons were to my recollection singularly dismal. I used, as far as I can remember, to learn lists of towns, rivers, capes, and mountains. Then there were horrible lists ...

— The Altar Fire • Arthur Christopher Benson

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