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Plan   /plæn/   Listen
Plan

noun
1.
A series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished.  Synonyms: program, programme.  "They discussed plans for a new bond issue"
2.
An arrangement scheme.  Synonym: design.  "It was an excellent design for living" , "A plan for seating guests"
3.
Scale drawing of a structure.  Synonym: architectural plan.
verb
(past & past part. planned; pres. part. planning)
1.
Have the will and intention to carry out some action.  Synonym: be after.  "The rebels had planned turmoil and confusion"
2.
Make plans for something.
3.
Make or work out a plan for; devise.  Synonyms: contrive, design, project.  "Design a new sales strategy" , "Plan an attack"
4.
Make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form.  Synonym: design.  "Plan the new wing of the museum"



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"Plan" Quotes from Famous Books



... One of these was in 1793, when he presented a petition for reform and a shorter duration of parliament, from the Society of the Friends of the People: his motion for a committee was lost by 280 to 41. Another occasion to which his Lordship alludes, was in 1797, when he proposed, in his plan of parliamentary reform, to give to the county of York four new members; to divide each county into two districts, each returning a member. Copyholders and leaseholders were to have equal rights of ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - No. 555, Supplement to Volume 19 • Various

... artery (Plate 47) has been exposed in the iliac and femoral regions with the object of showing the relation which its parts bear to each other and to the whole; all the other dissections have been made upon the same plan, the practical tendency of which will be illustrated when considering ...
— Surgical Anatomy • Joseph Maclise

... the worthy curate, as may be inferred from the foregoing statement, is deficient in regularity of plan; the style is artless and often inelegant, but it abounds in facts not to be met with elsewhere, often given in a very graphical manner, and strongly characteristic of the times. As he was contemporary with ...
— The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Vol. II) • Washington Irving

... stigma, some aid is necessary for their fertilisation. With several kinds this is effected by the pollen-grains, which are light and incoherent, being blown by the wind through mere chance on to the stigma; and this is the simplest plan which can well be conceived. An almost equally simple, though very different plan occurs in many plants in which a symmetrical flower secretes a few drops of nectar, and is consequently visited by insects; and these carry the pollen from the anthers ...
— On the Origin of Species - 6th Edition • Charles Darwin

... pure reed, and she carried also a tablet on which was a star of the heavens, and she seemed to take counsel with herself. While Gudea was gazing, he seemed to see a second man, who was like a warrior; and he carried a slab of lapis lazuli, on which he drew out the plan of a temple. Before the patesi himself it seemed that a fair cushion was placed, and upon the cushion was set a mould, and within the mould was a brick. And on the right hand the patesi beheld an ass that lay upon the ground. Such was the dream ...
— Legends Of Babylon And Egypt - In Relation To Hebrew Tradition • Leonard W. King


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