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German

Pronunciation

An audio transcript can be found at De-Plan.ogg

Noun

A project.
A technical drawing or diagram.
A detailed map.

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Plan \Plan\, n. [F., fr. L. planus flat, level. See Plain, a.]
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.
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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.
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God's plans like lines pure and white unfold. --M.
R. Smith.
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3. A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
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The simple plan,
That they should take who have the power,
And they should keep who can. --Wordsworth.
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Body plan, Floor plan, etc. See under Body, Floor,
etc.
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Syn: Scheme; draught; delineation; plot; sketch; project;
design; contrivance; device. See Scheme.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Plan \Plan\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Planned; p. pr. & vb. n.
Planning.]
1. To form a delineation of; to draught; to represent, as by
a diagram.
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2. To scheme; to devise; to contrive; to form in design; as,
to plan the conquest of a country.
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Even in penance, planning sins anew. --Goldsmith.
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WordNet Plan
n 1: 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" [syn: program, programme]
2: an arrangement scheme; "the awkward design of the keyboard
made operation difficult"; "it was an excellent design for
living"; "a plan for seating guests" [syn: design]
3: scale drawing of a structure; "the plans for City Hall were
on file" [syn: architectural plan]
v 1: 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" [syn: be after]
2: make plans for something; "He is planning a trip with his
family"
3: make or work out a plan for; devise; "They contrived to
murder their boss"; "design a new sales strategy"; "plan
an attack" [syn: project, contrive, design]
4: make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic
form; "design a better mousetrap"; "plan the new wing of
the museum" [syn: design]
[also: planning, planned]

Moby Dictionary
action , adjust , affair , aim , aim at , alphabet , ambition ,
anagnorisis , anatomy , angle , animus , anticipate , approach ,
architectonics , architecture , argument , arrange , arrangement , art ,
aspiration , aspire after , aspire to , atmosphere , attempt , await ,
background , be after , be destined , be fated , be imminent , be to be ,
be to come , beget , blueprint , breed , bring forth , bring into being ,
build , building , business , calculate , call into being , cast ,
catalog , catalogue raisonne , catastrophe , charactering ,
characterization , chart , choreography , clear for action ,
clear the decks , codify , coin , color , come , come on , commitment ,
complication , composition , conceive , conception , concert , concoct ,
conformation , constitution , construction , contemplate , continuity ,
contract , contrivance , contrive , conventional representation ,
cook up , coordinate , counsel , course of action , creation , cure ,
cut out , dance notation , deal , delineate , delineation ,
demonstration , denouement , depiction , depictment , deploy ,
desideration , desideratum , design , desire , destine , determination ,
determine , develop , development , device , devise , diagram , discover ,
drama , draw near , draw on , drawing , dream up , dress , drive at ,
effect , effort , engagement , engender , enterprise , envisage ,
envision , episode , evolve , exemplification , expect , fable , fabric ,
fabricate , fabrication , falling action , fashion , fashioning ,
figuration , figure , fix , fix up , fixed purpose , forecast , foresee ,
foretell , forethink , forging , form , format , formation , formula ,
frame , frame up , function , game plan , generate , get ready , getup ,
gimmick , give being to , give rise to , go for , graph , ground plan ,
harbor a design , harmonize , hatch , have every intention ,
hieroglyphic , hope , iconography , idea , ideogram , illustration ,
imagery , imaging , improvise , incident , intend , intendment , intent ,
intention , invent , lay down , lay out , lay plans , layout , letter ,
lie ahead , limning , line , local color , logogram , logograph ,
look for , look forward to , loom , make , make a projection ,
make arrangements , make do with , make preparations , make ready ,
make up , makeup , making , manufacture , map , map out , mature , mean ,
meaning , means , method , methodize , mind , mint , mobilize , mold ,
molding , mood , motif , motive , movement , musical notation , mythos ,
near , nisus , normalize , notation , notion , object , obligation ,
operation , orderliness , organic structure , organism , organization ,
organize , originate , outline , pack , pack the deal , pattern ,
patterning , peripeteia , physique , pictogram , picturization ,
plan ahead , platform , plot , point , policy , portraiture , portrayal ,
prearrange , preconcert , preconsider , precontrive , predesign ,
predetermine , predict , prefigurement , premeditate , preorder , prep ,
prepare , preresolve , presentment , pretreat , printing , procedure ,
process , procreate , production , program , project , projection ,
prophesy , proposal , propose , proposition , prospectus , provide ,
purport , purpose , put in shape , rationalize , ready , ready up ,
realization , recognition , regularize , regulate , rendering ,
rendition , representation , resolution , resolve , rig , rising action ,
routinize , sake , scenario , schedule , schema , schematize , scheme ,
score , script , secondary plot , set , set up , settle ,
settle preliminaries , setup , sew up , shape , shaping , sketch , slant ,
spawn , stack the cards , standardize , story , strategy , strike out ,
striving , structure , structuring , study , subject , subplot , switch ,
syllabary , symbol , synchronize , system , systematize , tablature ,
table , table of contents , tan , task , tectonics , texture ,
thematic development , theme , think , think out , think up , threaten ,
tissue , tone , topic , treat , trim , try out , tune , tune up , twist ,
undertaking , venture , view , warp and woof , way , weave , web , will ,
work , work out , work out beforehand , work up , writing

FOLDOC PLAN

Programming LANguage Nineteen hundred.

The assembly language for ICL 1900 series computers.

(1995-03-21)

FOLDOC .plan

See plan file.

PLAN. The delineation or design of a city, a house or houses, a garden, a vessel, &c. traced on paper or other substance, representing the position, and the relative proportions of the different parts. 2. When houses are built by one person agreeably to a plan, and one of them is Sold to a person, with windows and doors in it, the owner of the others cannot shut up those windows, nor has his grantee any greater right. 1 Price, R. 27; 2 Ry. & Mo. 24; 1 Lev. 122; 2 Saund. 114, n. 4 1 M. & M. 396; 9 Bing 305; 1 Leigh's N. P. 559. See 12 Mass: 159; Hamm. N. P. 202; 2 Hill. Ab. c. 12, n. 6 to 12; Com. Dig. Action on the case for a nuisance, A. See Ancients Lights; Windows.

PLAN, v.t. To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.