plan

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Etymology edit

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.

Pronunciation edit

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

  • Audio (US)

    (file)

• Rhymes: -æn

Noun edit

plan (plural plans)

2. 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.

4. 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

6. 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.

8. 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.

10. A subscription to a service.

    a phone plan

    an Internet plan

Usage notes edit

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

Synonyms edit

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

• → Japanese: プラン (puran)

Translations edit

Verb edit

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

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

   The architect planned the building for the client.

4. (transitive) To create a plan for.

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

6. (intransitive) To intend.

   He planned to go, but work intervened.

   • 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.

8. (intransitive) To make a plan.

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

Usage notes edit

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

Conjugation edit

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Translations edit

Further reading edit

• “plan”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “plan”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Pronunciation edit

• Audio

  (file)

Noun edit

plan (definite accusative planı, 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

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

• planlaşdırmaq

Further reading edit

• “plan” in Obastan.com.

Etymology edit

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”).

Noun edit

plan c (singular definite planen, plural indefinite planer)

1. a plan
2. a level or plane

Declension edit

Pronunciation edit

• audio

  (file)

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

Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from French plan, from Middle French plant.

Noun edit

plan n (plural plannen, diminutive plannetje n)

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

   Synonym: plattegrond

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

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

Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb edit

plan

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

Pronunciation edit

• IPA^(key): /plɑ̃/

• audio

  (file)

• Homophones: plans, plant, plants

Etymology 1 edit

From earlier plant, derived from the verb planter, or from Latin planus. Doublet of plant or plain, depending on which etymology is right.

Noun edit

plan m (plural plans)

1. map (schematic maps of streets, subways, etc.)

   un plan du métro ― a subway map

2. plane (flat surface)

   un plan incliné ― an inclined plane

3. (geometry) plane
4. (film) shot
5. plan

   Synonym: projet

   Quels sont tes plans pour cet été?

   What are your plans for this summer?

6. (slang, dated) a small case inserted in the rectum in order to hide one's valuables from a full-body search

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

Etymology 2 edit

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

Adjective edit

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

1. planar

Derived terms edit

• lichen plan

Further reading edit

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

Etymology edit

From Latin plānus.

Adjective edit

plan

1. flat, level, plane

Related terms edit

• planc

See also edit

• plac
• vualîf

Noun edit

plan m (plural plans)

1. plane
2. plan

Etymology edit

From Middle High German plān, from Latin plānus.

Pronunciation edit

• IPA^(key): /plaːn/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aːn

Adjective edit

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

1. (technical) planar, flat, level, smooth

   Synonym: eben

2. (archaic) plain, forthright
   • 1887, Otto Gradenwitz, 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!

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

• planlegen
• Pläne

See also edit

• Plan

Further reading edit

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

Etymology edit

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.

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

plan

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

   Synonym: rencana

Alternative forms edit

• pelan (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

Further reading edit

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

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Polish plan.

Pronunciation edit

• IPA^(key): /ˈplan/
• Syllabification: plan

Noun edit

plan m inan

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

Derived terms edit

Further reading edit

• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “plan”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[4], volume 2, page 425

Etymology edit

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”).

Noun edit

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

1. a plan
2. a level or plane

Derived terms edit

References edit

• “plan” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Pronunciation edit

• IPA^(key): /plaːn/

Etymology 1 edit

From German Plan, from Latin plānum.

Noun edit

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

1. plane
2. level

Derived terms edit

• planovergang

Etymology 2 edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun edit

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

1. a plan

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

Derived terms edit

Etymology 3 edit

From Latin planus.

Adjective edit

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

1. plane, flat

References edit

• “plan” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Pronunciation edit

• IPA^(key): /pla/

• Audio (Béarn)

  (file)

Noun edit

plan m (plural plans)

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

Adjective edit

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

1. flat

   Synonym: planièr

Adverb edit

plan

1. well

   Antonym: mal

2. very, quite

   Synonym: fòrça

   mercés plan ― thank you very much

Further reading edit

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎^[5], 2 edition, →ISBN, page 754.

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

plan

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French plan.^[1][2] Sense 1 is a semantic loan from English plan and German Plan.^[3] First attested in the 19th century.^[4]

Pronunciation edit

• IPA^(key): /plan/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: plan

Noun edit

plan m inan

2. plan (a set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal) [+ żeby (past tense/infinitive) = to do what]

   Synonym: zamysł

3. plan (series of actions to be performed in a particular order and at a particular time)

   Synonyms: program, rozkład

4. plan (design of a creation)

   Synonyms: szkic, zarys

5. plan (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)
6. plane (place of objects or people in a painting, drawing, theatrical stage or landscape, which is distinguished by the distance from the observer)
7. (film) shot (range of view of the camera, resulting from its distance from the object being filmed)
8. (film) location; set (place where a movie is filmed)
9. all elements of the content or form of a work that have been distinguished as a result of its analysis and contrasted with the others (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)

Declension edit

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Related terms edit

Descendants edit

• → Kashubian: plan
• → Masurian: plán

Trivia edit

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), plan is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 21 times in scientific texts, 81 times in news, 163 times in essays, 11 times in fiction, and 16 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 292 times, making it the 175th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[5]

References edit

Further reading edit

• plan in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• plan in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “plan”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎^[6] (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 220

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French plan, from Latin planus.

Noun edit

plan n (plural planuri)

1. plan
2. (geometry) plane

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Adjective edit

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

1. planar, flat

Declension edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from German Plan.

Pronunciation edit

• IPA^(key): /plâːn/
• Rhymes: -âːn

Noun edit

plȃn m (Cyrillic spelling пла̑н)

1. plan

Declension edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from German Plan.

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

plan m inan

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

Further reading edit

• plan in silling.org

Etymology edit

From plano.

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

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.

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

Descendants edit

• → Basque: plan

Further reading edit

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

Pronunciation edit

• audio

  (file)

• IPA^(key): /plɑːn/
• Rhymes: -ɑːn

Adjective edit

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

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plan n

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

   Synonym: flygplan

3. a plane; level of existence

   astralplan ― astral plane

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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)

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