plan

1. 1

   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.

   • The plans for many important buildings were once publicly available.
2. 2

   A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.

   • He didn't really have a plan; he had a goal and a habit of control.
3. 3

   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.

   • Seen in plan, the building had numerous passageways not apparent to visitors.
4. 4

   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.
5. 5

   A subscription to a service.

   • a phone plan
   • an Internet plan

syn. blueprint

1. 1

   To design (a building, machine, etc.).transitive

   • The architect planned the building for the client.
2. 2

   To create a plan for.transitive

   • They jointly planned the project in phases, with good detail for the first month.
3. 3

   To intend.intransitive

   • He planned to go, but work intervened.
4. 4

   To make a plan.intransitive

   • They planned for the worst, bringing lots of emergency supplies.