plan
plan Lexical Profile
plan Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A detailed proposal or method worked out in advance for doing or achieving something.
"The committee presented a comprehensive five-year plan to modernize the city's public transit system."
An intention or decision about what one is going to do.
"Do you have any special plans for the upcoming holiday weekend?"
A scale drawing or diagram showing the layout, horizontal section, or arrangement of a building, structure, or area.
"The architect unrolled the floor plan on the table to show where the new library wing would be built."
• verb
To decide on and make arrangements for something in advance.
"They spent several months planning the international conference down to the smallest detail."
To have the intention or purpose of doing something.
"She plans to pursue a graduate degree in environmental science next autumn."
To design or make a detailed architectural or technical drawing of a structure or area to be built.
"The civil engineers were hired to plan a new network of pedestrian bridges across the river."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the late 17th century from French 'plan', which blended the senses of a flat surface (from Latin 'planus', meaning flat) and a ground drawing or map (influenced by Italian 'pianta', from Latin 'planta', meaning the sole of the foot).