plan

Borrowed from French plan (“a ground-plot of a building”), from plan (“flat”), a later form of the vernacular plain, from Latin planus (“flat, plane”); see plain, plane.

• IPA^(key): /plæn/
• (US regional) IPA^(key): [plɛən]

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• Rhymes: -æn

plan (plural plans)

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. 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. 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. A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
   • Wordsworth

     The simple plan, / That they should take who have the power, / And they should keep who can.

5. A subscription to a service.

   a phone plan

   an Internet plan

• A plan ("set of intended actions") can be developed, executed, implemented, ignored, abandoned, scrapped, changed, etc.

• (drawing of a building from above): floor plan

• (2-dimensional drawing of a building) blueprint

plan (third-person singular simple present plans, present participle planning, simple past and past participle planned)

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

   The architect planned the building for the client.

2. (transitive) To create a plan for.

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

3. (intransitive) To intend.
   • 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:

     It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.

   He planned to go, but work intervened.

4. See plan on.

   I was planning on going, but something came up.

5. (intransitive) To make a plan.

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

• This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs

• planner
• plan on
• plan out

• plan in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• plan in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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• IPA^(key): /plɑn/

plan n (plural plannen, diminutive plannetje n)

1. A set of intended actions, through which one expects to achieve a goal.
2. A technical drawing.
3. A detailed map.

• stadsplan
• van plan zijn

plan

1. first-person singular present indicative of plannen
2. imperative of plannen

• IPA^(key): /plɑ̃/

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• Homophone: plans

From earlier plant, derived from the verb planter. Doublet of plant.

plan m (plural plans)

1. plan
2. map (schematic maps of streets, subways, etc.)
3. plane (both flat surface and mathematical plane)
4. (film) shot
5. (slang, dated) A small case inserted in the rectum in order to hide one's valuables from a full-body search.

• German: Plan

Borrowed from Latin plānus. Doublet of plain, which was inherited, and piano.

plan (feminine singular plane, masculine plural plans, feminine plural planes)

1. planar

• “plan” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Latin plānus.

plan

1. flat, level, plane

• planc

• plac
• vualîf

plan m (plural plans)

1. plane
2. plan

Borrowed from Latin plānus.

• Rhymes: -aːn

plan (comparative planer, superlative am plansten)

1. (technical) planar, flat
2. (archaic) plain, forthright
   • 1887, Gradenwitz, Otto, Die Ungültigkeit obligatorischer Rechtsgeschäfte, Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, page 108:

     [Zur Auslegung von Dig. 16, 1, 8, 2] Ferner muss man wohl sagen, dass eine so plane Wahrheit, wie die, dass im Falle des Betruges keine Intercession vorliege, nicht erst von Marcellus entdeckt worden sein kann, und dass daher nicht erst Marcellus in seinen Noten den Julianus dahin zu corrigiren brauchte; dass die Betrügerin nicht intercedirt hat, das wusste auch Julianus!

     [Regarding the interpretation of Dig. 16, 1, 8, 2] One must say furthermore fittingly that such a plain truth like that in the case of fraud there is no intercession cannot have been discovered only by Marcellus, and that hence Marcellus did not have to correct Julianus in his notes; that the fraudstress has not interceded, this was already known to Julianus!

• planlegen

• “plan” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• plan in Duden online

From Latin planum, via German Plan

plan m (definite singular planen, indefinite plural planer, definite plural planene)

1. a plan
2. a level or plane

• “plan” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /plaːn/ (example of pronunciation)

From German Plan, from Latin planum.

plan n (definite singular planet, indefinite plural plan, definite plural plana)

1. plane
2. level

• planovergang

plan m (definite singular planen, indefinite plural planar, definite plural planane)

1. a plan

   Kva er planen din?

   What's your plan?

• planarbeid
• plankart
• ruteplan

From Latin planus.

plan (masculine and feminine plan, neuter plant, definite singular and plural plane, comparative planare, indefinite superlative planast, definite superlative planaste)

1. plane, flat

• “plan” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

plan m (plural plans)

1. plan (a drawing showing technical details of a building)
2. plan (a set of intended actions)

plan m (feminine singular plana, masculine plural plans, feminine plural planas)

1. flat

   Synonym: planièr

plan

1. well

   Antonym: mal

2. very, quite

   Synonym: fòrça

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians, 2 edition, →ISBN, page 754.

• IPA^(key): /plan/

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plan m inan

1. plan
2. set (scenery for a film or play)

• plan in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• IPA^(key): /plâːn/
• Rhymes: -âːn

plȃn m (Cyrillic spelling пла̑н)

1. plan

From plano.

• IPA^(key): /plan/, [plãn]

plan m (plural planes)

1. plan
2. intention
3. (colloquial) mood
   • Vamos en plan rómantico.

     We’re going in a romantic mood.

• llano
• planificar
• planificación
• plana, plano
• planilla
• plantilla

• → Basque: plan

• “plan” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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plan (comparative planare, superlative planast)

1. flat; horizontal (of a surface)

plan n

1. (mathematics) a plane; flat surface.
2. a plane; level of existence
   • astralplan
     • astral plane
3. an aeroplane

• (aeroplan): flygplan

• biplan
• monoplan
• triplan

• sluttande plan
• lutande plan

plan c

1. a drawing showing how to construct a building, machine, etc.
2. a set of intended actions, through which one expects to achieve a goal.

• planera
• planering
• planlägga
• stadsplan

• IPA^(key): [plan]

plan (plural plans)

1. plant (botany)

• brid
• bridön
• dämabanim
• dämabanäsäk
• futaplant
• hinim
• hinimik
• jinim
• jinimik
• lif
• lifav
• lifavan
• lifavik
• lifaviko
• lifik
• nim
• nimav
• nimem
• nimik
• plant
• plantag, plantago