Word Meanings - PLAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A draught or form; properly, a representation drawn on a plane, as a map or a chart; especially, a top view, as of a machine, or the representation or delineation of a horizontal section of anything, as of a building; a graphic representation;

Additional info about word: PLAN

1. A draught or form; properly, a representation drawn on a plane, as a map or a chart; especially, a top view, as of a machine, or the representation or delineation of a horizontal section of anything, as of a building; a graphic representation; a diagram. 2. A scheme devised; a method of action or procedure expressed or described in language; a project; as, the plan of a constitution; the plan of an expedition. God's plans like lines pure and white unfold. M. R. Smith. 3. A method; a way of procedure; a custom. The simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can. Wordsworth. Body plan, Floor plan, etc. See under Body, Floor, etc. Syn. -- Scheme; draught; delineation; plot; sketch; project; design; contrivance; device. See Scheme.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PLAN)

• Contrive
• Plan
• design
• arrange
• fabricate
• adapt
• manage
• scheme
• devise
• concert
• adjust
• Course
• Order
• sequence
• continuity
• direction
• progress
• line
• way
• mode
• race
• career
• road
• route
• series
• passage
• succession
• round
• manner
• plan
• conduct
• method
• Demarcation
• Definition
• outline
• sketch
• delineation
• bounding
• inclosure
• limitation
• Design
• Contemplation
• pur pose
• intention
• drawing
• artifice
• cunning
• artfulness
• guile
• contrivance
• intent
• project
• Device
• Artifice
• expedient
• stratagem
• symbol
• emblem
• show
• invention
• cognizance

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PLAN)

• Recal
• withdraw
• draw
• retract
• pull
• attract
• rebound
• recoil
• adduce
• revert
• rebate

Related words: (words related to PLAN)

• SYMBOLISTIC; SYMBOLISTICAL
  Characterized by the use of symbols; as, symbolistic poetry.
• DRAWER
  An under-garment worn on the lower limbs. Chest of drawers. See under Chest. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, draws; as: One who draws liquor for guests; a waiter in a taproom. Shak. One who delineates or depicts; a draughtsman; as, a good
• PROJECTION
  The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction
• BOUNDLESS
  Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited. "The boundless sky." Bryant. "The boundless ocean." Dryden. "Boundless rapacity." "Boundless prospect of gain." Macaulay. Syn. -- Unlimited; unconfined; immeasurable; illimitable; infinite.
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• INTENTIONALITY
  The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge.
• DRAWCANSIR
  A blustering, bullying fellow; a pot-valiant braggart; a bully. The leader was of an ugly look and gigantic stature; he acted like a drawcansir, sparing neither friend nor foe. Addison.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• ARTIFICER
  A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory. Syn. -- Artisan; artist. See Artisan. (more info) 1. An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one
• REVERT
  To change back. See Revert, v. i. To revert a series , to treat a series, as y = a + bx + cx2 + etc., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x, so as to find therefrom the second variable x, expressed in a series arranged
• ROUNDISH
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
• ADAPTABLE
  Capable of being adapted.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• RETRACTOR
  One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
• PROJECTMENT
  Design; contrivance; projection. Clarendon.
• DRAW-CUT
  A single cut with a knife.
• SERIES DYNAMO
  A series-wound dynamo. A dynamo running in series with another or others.
• ADJUSTIVE
  Tending to adjust.
• ROUNDFISH
  Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes. A lake whitefish , less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.
• HOME-BOUND
  Kept at home.
• OUTBOUND
  Outward bound. Dryden.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• INCONSEQUENCE
  The quality or state of being inconsequent; want of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness. Bp. Stillingfleet. Strange, that you should not see the inconsequence of your own reasoning! Bp. Hurd.
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
  The tenets of the Sadducees.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• UNBOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Unbind.