plan

Borrowed from French plan (“a ground-plot of a building”), from plan (“flat”), a later form of the vernacular plain, from Latin planus (“flat, plane”); see plain, plane.

• enPR: plăn, IPA^(key): /plæn/, [pʰl̥æn]
• (US regional) IPA^(key): [plɛən]

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• Rhymes: -æn

plan (plural plans)

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.

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.

   • 1980, John Lennon (lyrics and music), “Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)”, in Double Fantasy:

     Life is what happens to you / While you're busy making other plans

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.

   Synonym: floor plan

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

4. A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
   • 1815, William Wordsworth, Rob Roy's Grave

     The simple plan, / That they should take who have the power, / And they should keep who can.

5. A subscription to a service.

   a phone plan

   an Internet plan

• A plan ("set of intended actions") can be developed, executed, implemented, ignored, abandoned, scrapped, changed, etc.

• → Japanese: プラン (puran)

plan (third-person singular simple present plans, present participle planning, simple past and past participle planned)

1. (transitive) To design (a building, machine, etc.).

   The architect planned the building for the client.

2. (transitive) To create a plan for.

   They jointly planned the project in phases, with good detail for the first month.

3. (intransitive) To intend.
   • 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:

     It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.

   He planned to go, but work intervened.

4. (intransitive) To make a plan.

   They planned for the worst, bringing lots of emergency supplies.

• This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs.

• plan in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• plan in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

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plan (definite accusative plannı, plural planlar)

1. plan (set of intended actions), scheme

   Amma o ümidini itirmirdi, çünki artıq yeni möhtəşəm plan cızmışdı.

   But s/he didn't lose hope, because s/he had already come up with a new magnificent plan.

   beş illik planını üç il yarıma yerinə yetirmək ― to complete a five year plan in three and a half years

   bütün planlar pozuldu ― all plans were ruined

2. draft, plan, scheme, contrivance, road map
3. layout

   arxa plan ― background

   ön plan ― foreground

   bu gündəm arxa plana keçdi ― this agenda faded into the background

• planlaşdırmaq

• “plan” in Obastan.com.

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• IPA^(key): /plɑn/
• Hyphenation: plan
• Rhymes: -ɑn

Borrowed from French plan, from Middle French plant.

plan n (plural plannen, diminutive plannetje n)

1. A set of intended actions, through which one expects to achieve a goal.
2. A technical drawing.
3. A detailed map of a relatively small area, such as a building or settlement.

   Synonym: plattegrond

• Negerhollands: plan
• → Caribbean Javanese: plan
• → Indonesian: plan

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

plan

1. first-person singular present indicative of plannen
2. imperative of plannen

• IPA^(key): /plɑ̃/

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• Homophones: plans, plant, plants

From earlier plant, derived from the verb planter or from Latin planus. Doublet of plant.

plan m (plural plans)

1. plan
2. map (schematic maps of streets, subways, etc.)
3. plane (both flat surface and mathematical plane)
4. (film) shot
5. (slang, dated) a small case inserted in the rectum in order to hide one's valuables from a full-body search

• → Central Franconian: Plan
  • Hunsrik: Plaan
• → German: Plan
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: plan
• → Luxembourgish: Plang
• → Ottoman Turkish: پلان‎
  • Turkish: plan

Borrowed from Latin plānus. Doublet of plain, which was inherited, and piano.

plan (feminine plane, masculine plural plans, feminine plural planes)

1. planar

• lichen plan

• “plan”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Latin plānus.

plan

1. flat, level, plane

• planc

• plac
• vualîf

plan m (plural plans)

1. plane
2. plan

Borrowed from Latin plānus.

• Rhymes: -aːn

plan (strong nominative masculine singular planer, comparative planer, superlative am plansten)

1. (technical) planar, flat
2. (archaic) plain, forthright
   • 1887, Gradenwitz, Otto, Die Ungültigkeit obligatorischer Rechtsgeschäfte, Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, page 108:

     [Zur Auslegung von Dig. 16, 1, 8, 2] Ferner muss man wohl sagen, dass eine so plane Wahrheit, wie die, dass im Falle des Betruges keine Intercession vorliege, nicht erst von Marcellus entdeckt worden sein kann, und dass daher nicht erst Marcellus in seinen Noten den Julianus dahin zu corrigiren brauchte; dass die Betrügerin nicht intercedirt hat, das wusste auch Julianus!

     [Regarding the interpretation of Dig. 16, 1, 8, 2] One must say furthermore fittingly that such a plain truth like that in the case of fraud there is no intercession cannot have been discovered only by Marcellus, and that hence Marcellus did not have to correct Julianus in his notes; that the fraudstress has not interceded, this was already known to Julianus!

• planlegen

• Plan

• “plan” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “plan” in Duden online

From Dutch plan, from French plan (“a ground-plot of a building”), from plan (“flat”), a later form of the vernacular plain, from Latin planus (“flat, plane”). Doublet of pelan.

• IPA^(key): /plan/, [ˈplan], [pə̆ˈlan]
• Hyphenation: plan

plan

1. plan, a set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.

   Synonym: rencana

• pelan (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

• “plan” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

From German Plan (“project, plan”), from French plan (“plan, map; plane”), from Latin plānus (“level, flat, even”), from plānus (“flat, even, level”), from Proto-Italic *plānos, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-no-s (“flattened”), from *pleh₂- (“flat”).

plan m (definite singular planen, indefinite plural planer, definite plural planene)

1. a plan
2. a level or plane

• “plan” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /plaːn/

From German Plan, from Latin plānum.

plan n (definite singular planet, indefinite plural plan, definite plural plana)

1. plane
2. level

• planovergang

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plan m (definite singular planen, indefinite plural planar, definite plural planane)

1. a plan

   Kva er planen din? ― What's your plan?

From Latin planus.

plan (neuter plant, definite singular and plural plane, comparative planare, indefinite superlative planast, definite superlative planaste)

1. plane, flat

• “plan” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /pla/

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plan m (plural plans)

1. plan (a drawing showing technical details of a building)
2. plan (a set of intended actions)

plan m (feminine singular plana, masculine plural plans, feminine plural planas)

1. flat

   Synonym: planièr

plan

1. well

   Antonym: mal

2. very, quite

   Synonym: fòrça

   mercés plan ― thank you very much

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎, 2 edition, →ISBN, page 754.

Borrowed from German Plan, from French plan.

• IPA^(key): /plan/

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• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: plan

plan m inan

1. plan

   Pani Magdalena, zgodnie z planem swojej intrygi, zaaranżowała spotkanie, na którym jej córka sfilmowała dyrektora instytutu wpatrującego się w kuszące piersi matki.

   Ms. Magdalena, according to the plan of her intrigue, arranged a meeting at which her daughter filmed the director of the institute staring at the mother's tempting breasts.

2. set (scenery for a film or play)

• plan in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• plan in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From French plan, from Latin planus.

plan n (plural planuri)

1. plan
2. (geometry) plane

plan m or n (feminine singular plană, masculine plural plani, feminine and neuter plural plane)

1. planar, flat

From German Plan.

• IPA^(key): /plâːn/
• Rhymes: -âːn

plȃn m (Cyrillic spelling пла̑н)

1. plan

From plano.

• IPA^(key): /ˈplan/ [ˈplãn]
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: plan

plan m (plural planes)

1. plan
2. scheme (systematic plan of future action)

   Synonyms: régimen, sistema

3. intention
4. (colloquial) mood

   Vamos en plan rómantico.

   We’re going in a romantic mood.

• → Basque: plan

• “plan”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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• IPA^(key): /plɑːn/
• Rhymes: -ɑːn

plan (comparative planare, superlative planast)

1. plane (flat)

   en plan yta

   a flat surface

2. plane (level)

   Kulan rullar, så golvet är inte helt plant

   The marble rolls, so the floor isn't completely level

plan n

1. (mathematics) a plane; flat surface.
2. an airplane / aeroplane

   Synonym: flygplan

3. a plane; level of existence

   astralplan ― astral plane

• sluttande plan
• lutande plan

plan c

1. a plan (planned actions)

   Jag har en plan

   I have a plan

2. a delimited, relatively level and flat area (like a delimited plane) (often used for sports, but also more general); a field, a rink, a yard, etc.

   Fotbollsspelarna sprang ut på planen

   The soccer players ran out onto the field

   ishockeyplan

   ice hockey rink (also called a rink)

   gårdsplan

   courtyard

3. a plan (drawing outlining a building, apartment, or the like, often more or less map-like)

• plan in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• plan in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• plan in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• plân (superseded)

From Ottoman Turkish پلان‎ (plân), from French plan.

• IPA^(key): /p(i)ˈlɑn/, [p(i).ˈlɑn̪]

plan (definite accusative planı, plural planlar)

1. plan

• planlamak

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “plan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013) The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): [plan]

plan (nominative plural plans)

1. plant (botany)