plan

English

/plæn/, [plɛən]

noun
Definitions
  • 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.
  • A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.
  • 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.
  • A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
  • A subscription to a service.

Etymology

Borrowed from French plan (a ground-plot of a building, plane surface, flat) derived from Latin planus (flat, plane, level) root from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (flat, broad, plain, wide, wide and flat, thin, field).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*pleh₂-

Gloss

flat, broad, plain, wide, wide and flat, thin, field

Concept
Semantic Field

Spatial relations

Ontological Category

Property

Kanji

野, 畑, 原

Emoji

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