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.
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.
- A top economic advisor said that the Clinton and McCain plan is ludacris.
- 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.
- _ "Not content with this, Dr. Worcester gives it once more under PLAN:" L. _planus_, flat; It. _piano_, a plan; Sp. _piano; _ Fr. _plan.
- But the general thrust of the McCain plan is one that he championed before he became an Obama staffer, now his job is to criticize that very plan.
- The McCain plan is that as you make more we will cut your taxes more - which is always the Republican plan but sometimes they are not as open about it.
- Let me know if you plan to be there livechina United Mines, Inc. Board Hires Exclusive Representative for Greater China and ... richardcolback #plan 2010 Wilbur K.
- The main plan is to do something I continue to love, but these will also be available when done in large print form, small print form, and the best news, book form.
- But it will take a further step in advance when it reverts to that plan on the footing above indicated; when it adopts the _plan_ without the evils which in an ignorant and undeveloped age necessarily accompanied it.
- The alliance and others are also lobbying the City Council to confirm the building as a landmark and supporters of the designation plan to turn out in large numbers at Thursday's meeting of the landmarks subcommittee.
- But as it was intended to be a poem on _Ariosto's plan, _ that _is_ to _say_ on _no plan_ at all, and, as is usual in similar cases, having a predilection for the worst passages, I shall retain those parts, though I cannot venture to defend them.