plan

Meanings

Noun

• 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.
• A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.
• 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.
• A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
• A subscription to a service.

Verb

• To design (a building, machine, etc.).
• To create a plan for.
• To intend.
• To make a plan.

Origin

• Borrowed from French plan, from plan, a later form of the vernacular plain, from Latin planus; see plain, plane.