Word Finder - plan

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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.

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The plans for many important buildings were once publicly available.

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A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.

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He didn't really have a plan; he had a goal and a habit of control.

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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.

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Seen in plan, the building had numerous passageways not apparent to visitors.

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• floor plan

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A method; a way of procedure; a custom.

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A subscription to a service.

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a phone plan

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To design (a building, machine, etc.).

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The architect planned the building for the client.

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To create a plan for.

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They jointly planned the project in phases, with good detail for the first month.

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To intend.

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He planned to go, but work intervened.

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To make a plan.

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They planned for the worst, bringing lots of emergency supplies.

I plan on it.

Where did you plan to sleep tonight?

Her plan was to approach the building from the back parking lot.

We will set up our plan to capture him.

What do you plan to do?

What we need is a plan but let's give it until tomorrow to clear our minds.

So when do you plan to leave?

There was no general plan of action.

I plan on returning to see what my brother is doing with all those histories he's not sharing.

With satellites images, we will plan better.

Each one told of some plan by which to keep out of her way.

Is it possible to plan or think of anything now?

When Sarah learned of her plan to go to the house and pick up some things, she insisted there was no reason to stay.

Is this your insurance plan where you don't follow through because it's not binding?

You have a plan?

We talk and plan and dream about nothing but Boston, Boston, Boston.

I plan to grab every moment I can in the country.

I plan to warn her but there's another matter.

Her plan had been near its finale.

The deity dragged Wynn here to warn him against altering his plan for revenge.

I said I didn't plan to let you leave.

And ready an emergency evac plan, just in case.

Deidre turned off the shower, some semblance of a plan comforting her.

Granted, we have to plan how to best make it public but.

The attention had shifted from Lori to Alex, and Carmen was sure things were going according to plan.

I need Darian alive, in case the plan to rule the mortal world doesn't quite work out for me.

The open floor plan ran from the living area through a kitchen to a formal dining room area that had been converted into an office on the other side.

That was the plan.

Seems we have the same plan, if you didn't tell him.

I don't need a plan, he said.

I don't know her plan, my king.

That was the plan, but after talking to his father and Morino, he decided to stay the night.

Do you plan to spend four weeks there?

Princess Mary told Pierre of her plan to become intimate with her future sister-in-law as soon as the Rostovs arrived and to try to accustom the old prince to her.

Then suddenly it became clear to Sonya that Natasha had some dreadful plan for that evening.

A detailed plan for the entire rapid is vital when facing the holes, drops, haystacks, rocks and chutes served up by even the most diminutive river.

This was Zamon's plan, to offer Darkyn something capable of distracting him, of shifting his focus.

His normal way of doing business was to plan the best he could then leap in.

Part of your plan to manipulate Darian.

You throw down now, we'll have us a little talk, and you've got no escape plan.

My plan was to go, find a place, then come back for Talia.

They could've interfered with our plan.

He needed Jenn to help him plan how to track the hundreds of creatures on the earth with the power to do what they want, unopposed, except for him.

And I need some time alone with the map to plan.

Whatever her plan is, she'll probably toss me in the hole you've got Sirian in when she returns!

She had a plan – and a good one at that.

She needed a real plan.

Somehow, her awful plan worked, without her turning over the gem and betraying him.

It said nothing, but its agitation told her she'd have to plan for the both of them.

Whoever you have will be enough for my plan.