plan
plan (plăn) noun
1. A scheme, program, or method worked out beforehand for the accomplishment of an objective: a plan of attack.
2. A proposed or tentative project or course of action: had no plans for the evening.
3. A systematic arrangement of important parts; an outline or a sketch: the plan of a story.
4. A drawing or diagram made to scale showing the structure or arrangement of something.
5. In perspective rendering, one of several imaginary planes perpendicular to the line of vision between the viewer and the object being depicted.
verb
planned, planning, plans
verb, transitive
1. To formulate a scheme or program for the accomplishment, enactment, or attainment of: plan a campaign.
2. To have as a specific aim or purpose; intend: They plan to buy a house.
3. To draw or make a graphic representation of.
verb, intransitive
To make plans.
[French, alteration (influenced by plan, flat surface). See plain, of plant, ground plan, map (from planter, to plant, from Latin plantāre, from planta, sole of the foot).]
planʹner noun
Synonyms: plan, blueprint, design, project, scheme, strategy. The central meaning shared by these nouns is "a method or program in accordance with which something is to be done or accomplished": has no vacation plans; a blueprint for the reorganization of the company; social conventions that are a product of human design; an urban-renewal project; a new scheme for power conservation; a strategy for capturing a major market share.