Definition of: plan

(plan) noun
1. An arrangement of means or steps for the attainment of some object; a scheme; method; design.
2. A drawing showing the proportion and relation of parts, as of a building; any outline sketch; draft.
3. A mode of action.
4. One of a number of hypothetical planes perpendicular to the line of vision in which the size of the pictured object is increased or diminished proportionately to the distance from the eye at which they are interposed. See PERSPECTIVE. See synonyms under DESIGN, IDEA, PROJECT, PURPOSE, SKETCH.
—v. planned, plan·ning v.t.
1. To form a scheme or method for doing, achieving, etc.
2. To make a plan of, as a building; design.
3. To have as an intention or purpose.
—v.i.
4. To make plans. [<OF, a plane (surface), a ground plan <Ital. plano <L planus flat. Doublet of PLAIN¹, noun]
—plan′·ner noun Synonyms (verb): concoct, contrive, design, devise, invent, plot, project, propose, purpose, scheme, sketch. Compare BREW, PROPOSE.