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The correct spelling is plan.
How to pronounce plan
/plæn/
nounIPA: /plæn/
Say it like: Pla-n
The correct spelling is plan. 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,… For example: "The plans for many important buildings were once publicly available."
Usage Examples
“The plans for many important buildings were once publicly available.”
“He didn't really have a plan; he had a goal and a habit of control.”
“Seen in plan, the building had numerous passageways not apparent to visitors.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.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.
- 2.A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.
- 3.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.
- 4.A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
- 5.A subscription to a service.
verb
- 1.To design (a building, machine, etc.).
- 2.To create a plan for.
- 3.To intend.
- 4.To make a plan.
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