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plan

See also: PLAN, Plan, plán, plån, and pláň

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EnglishEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

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.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /plæn/
  • (US regional) IPA(key): [plɛən]
    • Audio (US)
      		(file)
  • Rhymes: -æn

NounEdit

plan (plural plans)

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
    • Wordsworth
      The simple plan, / That they should take who have the power, / And they should keep who can.
  5. A subscription to a service.
    a phone plan
    an Internet plan

Usage notesEdit

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

SynonymsEdit

Derived termsEdit

terms derived from plan (noun)

Related termsEdit

  • (2-dimensional drawing of a building) blueprint

TranslationsEdit

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VerbEdit

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

  1. (transitive) To design (a building, machine, etc.).
    The architect planned the building for the client.
  2. (transitive) To create a plan for.
    They jointly planned the project in phases, with good detail for the first month.
  3. (intransitive) To intend.
    • 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.
    He planned to go, but work intervened.
  4. (intransitive) To make a plan.
    They planned for the worst, bringing lots of emergency supplies.

Usage notesEdit

Derived termsEdit

TranslationsEdit

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Further readingEdit

DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

plan n (plural plannen, diminutive plannetje n)

  1. A set of intended actions, through which one expects to achieve a goal.
  2. A technical drawing.
  3. A detailed map.

Derived termsEdit

VerbEdit

plan

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

FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From earlier plant, derived from the verb planter. Doublet of plant.

NounEdit

plan m (plural plans)

  1. plan
  2. map (schematic maps of streets, subways, etc.)
  3. plane (both flat surface and mathematical plane)
  4. (film) shot
  5. (slang, dated) A small case inserted in the rectum in order to hide one's valuables from a full-body search.
Derived termsEdit
terms derived from plan (noun)
DescendantsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

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

AdjectiveEdit

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

  1. planar

Further readingEdit

FriulianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin plānus.

AdjectiveEdit

plan

  1. flat, level, plane

Related termsEdit

See alsoEdit

NounEdit

plan m (plural plans)

  1. plane
  2. plan

GermanEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin plānus.

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

plan (comparative planer, superlative am plansten)

  1. (technical) planar, flat
  2. (archaic) plain, forthright
    • 1887, Gradenwitz, Otto, 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!

DeclensionEdit

Positive forms of plan
number & gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter all genders
predicative er ist plan sie ist plan es ist plan sie sind plan
strong declension
(without article) 		nominative planer plane planes plane
genitive planen planer planen planer
dative planem planer planem planen
accusative planen plane planes plane
weak declension
(with definite article) 		nominative der plane die plane das plane die planen
genitive des planen der planen des planen der planen
dative dem planen der planen dem planen den planen
accusative den planen die plane das plane die planen
mixed declension
(with indefinite article) 		nominative ein planer eine plane ein planes (keine) planen
genitive eines planen einer planen eines planen (keiner) planen
dative einem planen einer planen einem planen (keinen) planen
accusative einen planen eine plane ein planes (keine) planen
Comparative forms of plan
number & gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter all genders
predicative er ist planer sie ist planer es ist planer sie sind planer
strong declension
(without article) 		nominative planerer planere planeres planere
genitive planeren planerer planeren planerer
dative planerem planerer planerem planeren
accusative planeren planere planeres planere
weak declension
(with definite article) 		nominative der planere die planere das planere die planeren
genitive des planeren der planeren des planeren der planeren
dative dem planeren der planeren dem planeren den planeren
accusative den planeren die planere das planere die planeren
mixed declension
(with indefinite article) 		nominative ein planerer eine planere ein planeres (keine) planeren
genitive eines planeren einer planeren eines planeren (keiner) planeren
dative einem planeren einer planeren einem planeren (keinen) planeren
accusative einen planeren eine planere ein planeres (keine) planeren
Superlative forms of plan
number & gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter all genders
predicative er ist am plansten sie ist am plansten es ist am plansten sie sind am plansten
strong declension
(without article) 		nominative planster planste planstes planste
genitive plansten planster plansten planster
dative planstem planster planstem plansten
accusative plansten planste planstes planste
weak declension
(with definite article) 		nominative der planste die planste das planste die plansten
genitive des plansten der plansten des plansten der plansten
dative dem plansten der plansten dem plansten den plansten
accusative den plansten die planste das planste die plansten
mixed declension
(with indefinite article) 		nominative ein planster eine planste ein planstes (keine) plansten
genitive eines plansten einer plansten eines plansten (keiner) plansten
dative einem plansten einer plansten einem plansten (keinen) plansten
accusative einen plansten eine planste ein planstes (keine) plansten

Derived termsEdit

Further readingEdit

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

Norwegian BokmålEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin planum, via German Plan

NounEdit

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

  1. a plan
  2. a level or plane

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from plan

ReferencesEdit

Norwegian NynorskEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From German Plan, from Latin planum.

NounEdit

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

  1. plane
  2. level

Derived termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

NounEdit

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

  1. a plan
    Kva er planen din?
    What's your plan?
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 3Edit

From Latin planus.

AdjectiveEdit

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

  1. plane, flat

ReferencesEdit

OccitanEdit

NounEdit

plan m (plural plans)

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

AdjectiveEdit

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

  1. flat
    Synonym: planièr

AdverbEdit

plan

  1. well
    Antonym: mal
  2. very, quite
    Synonym: fòrça

Further readingEdit

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

PolishEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

plan m inan

  1. plan
  2. set (scenery for a film or play)

DeclensionEdit

declension of plan
singular plural
nominative plan plany
genitive planu planów
dative planowi planom
accusative plan plany
instrumental planem planami
locative planie planach
vocative planie plany

Further readingEdit

  • plan in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-CroatianEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

plȃn m (Cyrillic spelling пла̑н)

  1. plan

DeclensionEdit

Declension of plan
singular plural
nominative plȃn plȁnovi
genitive plana planova
dative planu planovima
accusative plan planove
vocative plane planovi
locative planu planovima
instrumental planom planovima

SpanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From plano.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

plan m (plural planes)

  1. plan
  2. intention
  3. (colloquial) mood
    • Vamos en plan rómantico.
      We’re going in a romantic mood.

Related termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

Further readingEdit

SwedishEdit

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

plan (comparative planare, superlative planast)

  1. flat; horizontal (of a surface)

DeclensionEdit

Inflection of plan
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular plan planare planast
Neuter singular plant planare planast
Plural plana planare planast
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 plane planare planaste
All plana planare planaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.

NounEdit

plan n

  1. (mathematics) a plane; flat surface.
  2. a plane; level of existence
    • astralplan
      • astral plane
  3. an aeroplane

DeclensionEdit

Declension of plan 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative plan planet plan planen
Genitive plans planets plans planens

SynonymsEdit

Derived termsEdit

See alsoEdit

NounEdit

plan c

  1. a drawing showing how to construct a building, machine, etc.
  2. a set of intended actions, through which one expects to achieve a goal.

DeclensionEdit

Declension of plan 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative plan planen planer planerna
Genitive plans planens planers planernas

Derived termsEdit

VolapükEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

plan (nominative plural plans)

  1. plant (botany)

DeclensionEdit

declension of plan
singular plural
nominative plan plans
genitive plana planas
dative plane planes
accusative plani planis
vocative 1 o plan! o plans!
predicative 2 planu planus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from plan

See alsoEdit

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