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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.

Example: The plans for many important buildings were once publicly available.

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

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

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.

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

A method; a way of procedure; a custom.

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

Example: The architect planned the building for the client.

To create a plan for.

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

To intend.

Example: He planned to go, but work intervened.

To make a plan.

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