Definition of "plan" []

• A scheme, program, or method worked out beforehand for the accomplishment of an objective: a plan of attack. (noun)
• A proposed or tentative project or course of action: had no plans for the evening. (noun)
• A systematic arrangement of elements or important parts; a configuration or outline: a seating plan; the plan of a story. (noun)
• A drawing or diagram made to scale showing the structure or arrangement of something. (noun)
• In perspective rendering, one of several imaginary planes perpendicular to the line of vision between the viewer and the object being depicted. (noun)

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• "But it will take a further step in advance when it reverts to that plan on the footing above indicated; when it adopts the _plan_ without the evils which in an ignorant and undeveloped age necessarily accompanied it."
• "_ "Not content with this, Dr. Worcester gives it once more under PLAN:" L. _planus_, flat; It. _piano_, a plan; Sp. _piano; _ Fr. _plan."
• "But as it was intended to be a poem on _Ariosto's plan, _ that _is_ to _say_ on _no plan_ at all, and, as is usual in similar cases, having a predilection for the worst passages, I shall retain those parts, though I cannot venture to defend them."