“plans” is a form of
plan
/plæn/ noun, verb, proper noun
- noun 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.”
- noun 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.”
- noun 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.”
- noun A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
- noun A subscription to a service. “a phone plan”
- verb (transitive) To design (a building, machine, etc.). “The architect planned the building for the client.”
- verb (transitive) To create a plan for. “They jointly planned the project in phases, with good detail for the first month.”
- verb (intransitive) To intend. “He planned to go, but work intervened.”
- verb (intransitive) To make a plan. “They planned for the worst, bringing lots of emergency supplies.”
- proper noun A surname.
- proper noun (US) A particular standardized examination taken by high-school students.
Synonyms
design scheme chart diagram map graph graphic plot schematic blueprint project proposal floor plan program programme architectural plan be after contrive
Etymology
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.
Webster’s 1913
- noun A draught or form; properly, a representation drawn on a plane, as a map or a chart; especially, a top view, as of a machine, or the representation or delineation of a horizontal section of anything, as of a building; a graphic representation; a diagram.
- noun A scheme devised; a method of action or procedure expressed or described in language; a project; as, the plan of a constitution; the plan of an expedition.
- verb To form a delineation of; to draught; to represent, as by a diagram.
- verb To scheme; to devise; to contrive; to form in design; as, to plan the conquest of a country.
Etymology [F., fr. L. planus flat, level. See Plain, a.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “plan”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details