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noun

Plan n.

1.

A draught or form; properly, a representation drawn on a plane, as a map or a chart; especially, a top view, as of a machine, or the representation or delineation of a horizontal section of anything, as of a building; a graphic representation; a diagram.

2.

A scheme devised; a method of action or procedure expressed or described in language; a project; as, the plan of a constitution; the plan of an expedition. "God's plans like lines pure and white unfold."

3.

A method; a way of procedure; a custom. "The simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can."

Body plan, Floor plan, etc. See under Body, Floor, etc.

Synonyms: Scheme; draught; delineation; plot; sketch; project; design; contrivance; device. See Scheme.

verb

Plan v. t. (past & past part. planned; pres. part. planning)

1.

To form a delineation of; to draught; to represent, as by a diagram.

2.

To scheme; to devise; to contrive; to form in design; as, to plan the conquest of a country. "Even in penance, planning sins anew."

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Etymology of 'Plan'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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