plan
/plæn/ noun A1- 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.
- 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.
- A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
- A subscription to a service. · a phone plan· an Internet plan
Plural plans
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He took the papers to London to sell the secret, intending, no doubt, to have the plans themselves back in the safe next morning before they were missed.
His duties brought him into daily, personal contact with the plans.
“Who locked up the plans that night?”
The papers which this wretched youth had in his pocket were the plans of the Bruce-Partington submarine.”
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