Meaning

5 senses
  1. 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.

    Plan

    планplan, чертёжčertjóž, схе́маsxéma

    планplan, кре́сленняkréslennja, схе́маsxéma

  2. 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.

    Plan

    планplan

    планplan

  3. 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.

    Seen in plan, the building had numerous passageways not apparent to visitors.

    Plan

    планplan, чертёжčertjóž

  4. A method; a way of procedure; a custom.

  5. A subscription to a service.

    a phone plan

    an Internet plan

    Tarif

More definitions
  • scale drawing of a structure
  • a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished
  • an arrangement scheme

Examples

13522 sentences
  1. Do you plan to go abroad?

    Ви плануєте поїхати за кордон? — deniko

    ruВы планируете поехать за границу? — JeNNeR

    dePlanst du ins Ausland zu gehen? — Ullalia

  2. Your plan seems better than mine.

    Твій план здається кращим за мій. — deniko

    ruТвой план выглядит лучше моего. — vilnat

    deIhr Plan scheint besser als meiner zu sein. — MUIRIEL

  3. We plan to stay a week.

    Ми плануємо залишитися на тиждень. — deniko

    ruМы планируем остаться на неделю. — marafon

    deWir planen, eine Woche zu bleiben. — Vortarulo

  4. Few people know about the plan.

    Мало людей знають про план. — deniko

    ruПро этот план знает мало людей. — Biga

    deNur wenige Personen wissen über den Plan Bescheid. — dima555

  5. Please show me your detailed plan.

    Будь ласка, покажи мені свій детальний план. — deniko

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
technical drawing:
Русский
By meaning 1
technical drawing:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
technical drawing:
subscription plan:

Origin

Borrowed from French plan (“flat surface, ground plot, map”), from Latin plānus. Some sour

Borrowed from French plan (“flat surface, ground plot, map”), from Latin plānus. Some sources also argue for influence or alteration of French plant, from plantar, from Latin plantāre (“set, fix in place”). Doublet of llano, piano, plane, and plain.

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Forms

plural: plans
Singularplan
Pluralplans

regular

Synonyms

17 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

63 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • was planning to
  • planning to do
  • planning on doing
  • was planning on
  • planning to go
  • planning to stay
  • planning on staying
  • planning on going
  • doesn't plan on
  • really planning to
  • still planning on
  • planning to get

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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