Free Translator Free Translator
Translators Dictionaries Courses Other
Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Plan   /plæn/   Listen
Plan

noun
1.
A series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished.  Synonyms: program, programme.  "They discussed plans for a new bond issue"
2.
An arrangement scheme.  Synonym: design.  "It was an excellent design for living" , "A plan for seating guests"
3.
Scale drawing of a structure.  Synonym: architectural plan.
verb
(past & past part. planned; pres. part. planning)
1.
Have the will and intention to carry out some action.  Synonym: be after.  "The rebels had planned turmoil and confusion"
2.
Make plans for something.
3.
Make or work out a plan for; devise.  Synonyms: contrive, design, project.  "Design a new sales strategy" , "Plan an attack"
4.
Make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form.  Synonym: design.  "Plan the new wing of the museum"



Related searches:
plan of action
plan of attack
401-k plan
American plan
architectural plan
battle plan
Bermuda plan
commission plan
continental plan
employee savings plan
employee stock ownership plan
European plan
floor plan
game plan
ground plan
hotel plan
installment plan
Keogh plan
Marshall Plan
master plan
meal plan
modified American plan
open-plan
pension plan
planner
planning
retirement plan
retirement savings plan
secret plan
stock purchase plan
time plan
travel plan


WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Plan" Quotes from Famous Books



... you're asleep—I press this little white button, hidden here in the stencilled pattern of the outer wall—the mortise of the lock inside falls back silently against the door-post—and I walk into the room whenever I like. The same plan is pursued with the window. My capricious patient won't open it at night, when he ought. I humor him again. 'Shut it, dear sir, by all means!' As soon as he is asleep, I pull the black handle hidden here, in the corner of the wall. The window of the room inside noiselessly opens, as you see. ...
— Armadale • Wilkie Collins
... eight Indians—undoubtedly Shawnees—who were examining the ruins that lay around them with considerable curiosity. They were ugly-looking customers in their revolting war-paint and fantastic costumes, and the Lieutenant felt that the wisest plan he could adopt was to give them a wide berth. Withdrawing further into the wood, he asked the negro when he ...
— Oonomoo the Huron • Edward S. Ellis
... the one man who had not played. He cared nothing for the pleasures of the Farani, the foolish whites. After palaver, his neighbors waited on him in a body. They reasoned with him, they begged him. He consented to their plan only after they had wept at their humbling. Then they began to ...
— White Shadows in the South Seas • Frederick O'Brien
... agent of a Chicago company—Koerner by name—who, like myself, wished to visit Aurora, and in whom I found a very agreeable traveling companion. He had procured in Portland letters of introduction to Doctor Keil, and had conceived the bold plan of doing a stroke of business in life insurance with him; indeed, his main object in going to Aurora was to induce the doctor to insure the lives of the entire colony—that is to say, of all his voluntary subjects—in the Chicago company, pay, ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 11, - No. 22, January, 1873 • Various
... to the dead body on the filthy straw; that he knew he could carry under his arm and drop into the Nile when the bazaar slept; but he pulled hard at his curly hair as a plan germinated in the sluggish convolutions of ...
— The Hawk of Egypt • Joan Conquest


More quotes...


Copyright © 2024 Free-Translator.com