plan

Plural: plans

Noun

• a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished
  • "they drew up a six-step plan"
  • "they discussed plans for a new bond issue"
• an arrangement scheme
  • "a plan for seating guests"
• scale drawing of a structure
  • "the plans for City Hall were on file"
• 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.

Verb

Verb Forms: planned, planning, plans

• To formulate a detailed scheme for achieving a goal.
• have the will and intention to carry out some action
  • "He plans to be in graduate school next year"
  • "The rebels had planned turmoil and confusion"
• make plans for something
  • "He is planning a trip with his family"
• make or work out a plan for; devise
  • "plan an attack"
• make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form
  • "plan the new wing of the museum"
• To design (a building, machine, etc.).
• To create a plan for.
• To intend.
• To make a plan.

Examples

• a phone plan
• Always PLAN your Words With Friends moves several turns ahead, anticipating your opponent’s plays.
• an Internet plan
• He didn't really have a plan; he had a goal and a habit of control.
• He planned to go, but work intervened.
• Seen in plan, the building had numerous passageways not apparent to visitors.
• The architect planned the building for the client.
• The plans for many important buildings were once publicly available.
• They jointly planned the project in phases, with good detail for the first month.
• They planned for the worst, bringing lots of emergency supplies.

Synonyms

architectural plan, be after, contrive, design, program, programme, project, blueprint, chart, diagram, floor plan, graph, graphic, map, plan, plot, proposal, schematic, scheme

Anagrams of plan