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.
Example
“The plans for many important buildings were once publicly available.”
Other meanings
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.”
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.”
Synonyms
- architectural plan
A kind of
- drawing
Kinds of plan
- elevation
- floor plan
Related words
- bayplan
- counterplan
- foreplan
- groundplan
- megaplan
- misplan
- newsplan
- nonplan
- oplan
- plandemic
- planform
- planful
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "plantāre" (set, fix in place).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “plan” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.