plan
IPA: pɫˈæn
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.
- A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.
- 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.
- A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
- A subscription to a service.
- (US) A particular standardized examination taken by high-school students.
- (nautical, military) Abbreviation of People's Liberation Army Navy. The national navy of the People's Republic of China. [(military, nautical) The navy branch of the People's Liberation Army, the military arm of the People's Republic of China.]
verb
- (transitive) To design (a building, machine, etc.).
- (transitive) To create a plan for.
- (intransitive) To intend.
- (intransitive) To make a plan.
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Examples of "plan" in Sentences
- The plan is not feasible.
- The plans still support the original design in plywood.
- The plan of the stairs changed dramatically in the design stage.
- Below is a spreadsheet that projects the key elements of the plan.
- The Acquisition Plan is the master plan of the entire acquisition.
- But this plan was not designed as a panacea for the refugee crisis.
- Pedro designed the plan for the interment on six levels of the hill.
- Her project fails when both Visser Three and the Animorphs thwart her plans.
- The amount was put toward the completion of the planning phase of the project.
- I just approved that operational plan, a pure intelligence project that seeks to incarcerate a group of suspected criminals.
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