Plan
[plæn]
Definition
(noun.) scale drawing of a structure; 'the plans for City Hall were on file'.
(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'.
(verb.) make plans for something; 'He is planning a trip with his family'.
(verb.) 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'.
(verb.) make or work out a plan for; devise; 'They contrived to murder their boss'; 'design a new sales strategy'; 'plan an attack'.
Checker: Ophelia--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) 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.
(a.) 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.
(a.) A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
(v. t.) To form a delineation of; to draught; to represent, as by a diagram.
(v. t.) To scheme; to devise; to contrive; to form in design; as, to plan the conquest of a country.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Draft, sketch, plot, drawing, map, chart.[2]. Scheme, project, system, method, device, design, contrivance, proposal, proposition.
v. a. [1]. Delineate, figure, represent, mark out, chalk out, sketch out.[2]. Devise, contrive, scheme, project, plot, invent, design, concoct, digest, lay out, prepare, hatch.
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Definition
n. a drawing of anything on a plane or flat surface: a drawing of a building as it stands on the ground: a scheme or project for accomplishing a purpose: a contrivance: a method or custom.—v.t. to make a sketch of on a flat surface: to form in design: to lay plans for:—pr.p. plan′ning; pa.t. and pa.p. planned.—adj. Plan′less.—ns. Plan′ner one who forms a plan: a projector; Work′ing-plan a draft on a large scale given to workmen to work from.—Plan of campaign the method of conducting the struggle of the Irish tenants against the landlords organised by the National League in 1886 its officers collecting what they considered a fair rent and offering it to the landlord and where he refused to accept it spending it on the support of the persons evicted.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
v.t. To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.
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Examples
- He was quite willing to tell me what his plan was, but I did not feel clear enough to understand it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The early official history of the Royal Society (Sprat, 1667) says that this proposal hastened very much the adopt ion of a plan of organization. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Gerty Farish had opposed the plan with all the energy of her somewhat inarticulate nature. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I have a good plan, Pablo said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The plan of identifying people by their finger-prints, although at first used only on criminals, is now put to many other uses. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- To go thither, to escape across the Ohio river, were the first hurried outlines of her plan of escape; beyond that, she could only hope in God. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The plan was for the troops and gunboats to start at the same moment. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Johnson and I went to the Charleston end to carry out Edison's plans, which were rapidly unfolded by telegraph every night from a loft on lower Broadway, New York. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I never made any plans about what I'd do when I grew up. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I will draw plenty of plans while I have time. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The _fad_ of drawing plans! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Raymond, while he knew that his plans and prospects were to be discussed and decided during the expected debate, was gay and careless. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Then I was compelled to change my plans and go upward in the air where real estate was cheap. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But we'll talk of that by and bye--tell me now where you're staying and what your plans are. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I wonder what the bastard is planning now, Robert Jordan said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- She talked on, planning village kindnesses, unheeding the silence of her husband and the monosyllabic answers of Margaret. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains were wasted. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- She lay awake very long this night, planning how to lessen the evil influence of their Milton life on her mother. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The business, however difficult, shapes itself to your effort; you seem to manage detail with an inferior part of yourself, while the real soul of you is active, planning, light. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He was seated at this bench testing, figuring, and planning. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- And he set himself to weaken the republicans whose fundamental convictions he was planning to outrage. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I planned to use the gasoline engine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He should not have planned such an absence--he should not have left home for a week, when her own departure from Mansfield was so near. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Do you think he had planned this robbery, when he went with you to the lodging? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- This out of to-day, quite an unnecessary out so far as the attendance, which was its pretended object, went, was planned by me alone for thee alone. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- So well had the work been planned and executed, however, that nothing happened to hinder the continuous working of the station and the supply of light to customers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The narrow, darkened structure of the ancient temples seems to be deliberately planned for such an effect. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- What subtle wickedness had the Count planned and executed in my absence? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
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