| plan | |
| 1. n. 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. n. 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. n. 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 e | |
| Seen in plan, the building had numerous passageways not apparent to visitors. | |
| 4. n. A method; a way of procedure; a custom. | |
| 5. n. A subscription to a service. | |
| a phone plan | |
| an Internet plan | |
| 6. v. To design (a building, machine, etc.). | |
| The architect planned the building for the client. | |
| 7. v. To create a plan for. | |
| They jointly planned the project in phases, with good detail for the first month. | |
| 8. v. (intransitive) To intend. | |
| He planned to go, but work intervened. | |
| 9. v. See plan on. | |
| I was planning on going, but something came up. | |
| 10. v. (intransitive) To make a plan. | |
| They planned for the worst, bringing lots of emergency supplies. | |
