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Synonyms for plan
plænplan
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Wiktionary
plannoun
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floor planplannoun
To design a building, machine, etc.
The architect planned the building for the client.
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floor planplannoun
To create a plan for.
They jointly planned the project in phases, with good detail for the first month.
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floor planplannoun
To intend.
Seen in plan, the building had numerous passageways not apparent to visitors.
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floor plan
English Synonyms and Antonyms
plan
Design refers to the adaptation of means to an end, the correspondence and coordination of parts, or of separate acts, to produce a result; intent and purpose overleap all particulars, and fasten on the end itself. Intention is simply the more familiar form of the legal and philosophical intent. Plan relates to details of form, structure, and action, in themselves; design considers these same details all as a means to an end. The plan of a campaign may be for a series of sharp attacks, with the design of thus surprising and overpowering the enemy. A man comes to a fixed intention to kill his enemy; he forms a plan to entrap him into his power, with the design of then compassing his death; as the law can not read the heart, it can only infer the intent from the evidences of design. Intent denotes a straining, stretching forth toward an object; purpose simply the placing it before oneself; hence, we speak of the purpose rather than the intent or intention of God. We hold that the marks of design in nature prove it the work of a great Designer. Intention contemplates the possibility of failure; purpose looks to assured success; intent or intention refers especially to the state of mind of the actor; purpose to the result of the action. Compare AIM; CAUSE; IDEA; MODEL.
Synonyms:
aim, design, device, end, end, final cause, intent, intention, object, project, proposal, purpose, schemePreposition:
The design of defrauding; the design of a building; a design for a statue.
Princeton's WordNet
plan, program, programmenoun
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"
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broadcast, political program, curriculum, political platform, programme, program, computer programme, architectural plan, course of study, platform, computer program, syllabus, designdesign, plannoun
an arrangement scheme
"the awkward design of the keyboard made operation difficult"; "it was an excellent design for living"; "a plan for seating guests"
Synonyms:
intention, aim, program, design, figure, designing, programme, excogitation, conception, pattern, blueprint, intent, invention, architectural plan, innovation, purposeplan, architectural planverb
scale drawing of a structure
"the plans for City Hall were on file"
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design, architectural plan, programme, programplan, be afterverb
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"
planverb
make plans for something
"He is planning a trip with his family"
plan, project, contrive, designverb
make or work out a plan for; devise
"They contrived to murder their boss"; "design a new sales strategy"; "plan an attack"
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throw, see, protrude, design, visualize, figure, excogitate, jut, forge, propose, cast, externalise, image, project, devise, fancy, visualise, stick out, invent, contrive, send off, picture, envision, jut out, externalize, formulate, be afterdesign, planverb
make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form
"design a better mousetrap"; "plan the new wing of the museum"
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
plannoun
plannoun
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scheme, project, system, method, device, design, contrivance, proposal, propositionplanverb
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delineate, figure, represent, mark out, chalk out, sketch outplanverb
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devise, contrive, scheme, project, plot, invent, design, concoct, digest, lay out, prepare, hatch
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
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PLAN
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#136 | system | |
#197 | map | |
#199 | program | |
#229 | terms | |
#245 | design | |
#288 | project | |
#317 | end | |
#364 | level | |
#376 | image | |
#480 | plan | |
#631 | picture | |
#767 | planning | |
#958 | figure | |
#1045 | plans | |
#1150 | object | |
#1255 | schedule | |
#1258 | purpose | |
#1436 | programme | |
#1634 | device | |
#2134 | platform | |
#2357 | pattern | |
#2394 | cast | |
#2629 | proposal | |
#2751 | aim | |
#2803 | scheme | |
#3197 | curriculum | |
#3494 | planned | |
#3763 | piano | |
#3856 | broadcast | |
#3936 | innovation | |
#4010 | plane | |
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#4404 | throw | |
#5440 | outline | |
#5534 | intent | |
#5906 | schemes | |
#6066 | regime | |
#6425 | designing | |
#6823 | fancy | |
#7155 | invention | |
#7295 | intention | |
#8654 | propose | |
#9768 | forge | |
#11493 | syllabus | |
#12211 | conception | |
#14722 | regimes | |
#14993 | roadmap | |
#16458 | blueprint | |
#17654 | planar | |
#18236 | formulate | |
#21461 | visualize | |
#21495 | invent | |
#22251 | devise | |
#23372 | envision | |
#55540 | workplan | |
#70636 | visualise | |
#84682 | protrude | |
#103482 | contrive | |
#106140 | jut | |
#175275 | externalize |
How to use plan in a sentence?
He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.
We have a plan A, a plan B, a plan C, and a plan D, the folks that have been here, we've been here long enough that we know the A, B, C and D steps.
A goal, a plan for the goal and a strategy for the plan is what you need to be successful. The GOAL is where you want to go. The PLAN is the road map you use to get you there and the STRATEGY lays out the how and the by when needed to achieve the plan. All are necessary steps in creating success.
The sad part is the last administration didn't leave anything. They didn't leave a plan, we didn't have a plan on how to distribute the vaccines. We didn't have a coordinated plan on how to deal with the states and getting the vaccines out to people. We didn't have a plan on making sure that there were enough supplies. And so we're going to get it done.
Mayor Buttigieg really has a slogan that was thought up by Mayor Buttigieg consultants to paper over a thin version of a plan that would leave millions of people unable to afford their health care. It's not a plan. It's a PowerPoint, and Amy's plan is even less. It's like Insert Plan,' Insert Plan Here.
Translations for plan
From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary
- خطة, خططArabic
- planejarCatalan, Valencian
- plán, plánovat, půdorysCzech
- planDanish
- Plan, planen, anlegen, vorhabenGerman
- σχέδιο, σχεδιάζωGreek
- plano, tener intención de, planear, planSpanish
- پلانPersian
- kaavailla, pohjakaava, suunnitella, kaava, pohjapiirros, suunnitelma, kaavapiirros, aikoaFinnish
- schema, projeter, planFrench
- pleanIrish
- תוכנית, יזם, תכנןHebrew
- प्रोग्राम, प्रोग्राम बनाना, योजनाHindi
- tervez, tervHungarian
- projectarInterlingua
- ætlaIcelandic
- pianificare, progettare, inventare, organizzarsi, architettare, pianoItalian
- לְתַכְנֵןHebrew
- 計画する, プラン, 設計図, 計画, 図解, つもりであるJapanese
- 계획, 계획하다, 計劃Korean
- cōnsiliumLatin
- PlangLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- mahereMāori
- van plan zijn, ontwerpen, ontwerp, schema, plannen, planDutch
- planNorwegian
- projektować, schemat, planować, planPolish
- planta, planejar, plano, pretender, planearPortuguese
- чертёж, разрабатывать, разработать, план, планироватьRussian
- načrt, načrtovati, tlorisSlovene
- projektera, plan, planeraSwedish
- mpango, mkakatiSwahili
- planlamak, planTurkish
- 計劃Chinese
- isakhiwo, isu, icebo, iqhingaZulu
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