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Plan : (noun)
1: 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" [syn: program, programme]
2: an arrangement scheme; "the awkward design of the keyboard
made operation difficult"; "it was an excellent design for
living"; "a plan for seating guests" [syn: design]
3: scale drawing of a structure; "the plans for City Hall were
on file" [syn: architectural plan]
(verb)
1: 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" [syn: be after]
2: make plans for something; "He is planning a trip with his
family"
3: make or work out a plan for; devise; "They contrived to
murder their boss"; "design a new sales strategy"; "plan
an attack" [syn: project, contrive, design]
4: make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic
form; "design a better mousetrap"; "plan the new wing of
the museum" [syn: design]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Plan : \Plan\, n. [F., fr. L. planus flat, level. See Plain, a.]
1. 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.
2. 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.
God's plans like lines pure and white unfold. --M.
R. Smith.
3. A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
The simple plan, That they should take who have the
power, And they should keep who can. --Wordsworth.
Body plan, Floor plan, etc. See under Body, Floor,
etc.
Syn: Scheme; draught; delineation; plot; sketch; project;
design; contrivance; device. See Scheme.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Plan : \Plan\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Planned; p. pr. & vb. n.
Planning.]
1. To form a delineation of; to draught; to represent, as by
a diagram.
2. To scheme; to devise; to contrive; to form in design; as,
to plan the conquest of a country.
Even in penance, planning sins anew. --Goldsmith.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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PLAN. The delineation or design of a city, a house or houses, a garden, a
vessel, &c. traced on paper or other substance, representing the position,
and the relative proportions of the different parts.
2. When houses are built by one person agreeably to a plan, and one of
them is Sold to a person, with windows and doors in it, the owner of the
others cannot shut up those windows, nor has his grantee any greater right.
1 Price, R. 27; 2 Ry. & Mo. 24; 1 Lev. 122; 2 Saund. 114, n. 4 1 M. & M.
396; 9 Bing 305; 1 Leigh's N. P. 559. See 12 Mass: 159; Hamm. N. P. 202; 2
Hill. Ab. c. 12, n. 6 to 12; Com. Dig. Action on the case for a nuisance, A.
See Ancients Lights; Windows.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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Plan :
Programming LANguage Nineteen hundred.
The assembly language for ICL 1900 series computers.
(1995-03-21)
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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