different between bill vs plan

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?l/, [b??], enPR: bîl
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English bill, bille, bil, from Old English bil, bill (“a hooked point; curved weapon; two-edged sword”), from Proto-Germanic *bilj? (“axe; sword; blade”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?eyH- (“to strike; beat”). Cognate with West Frisian bile (“axe”), Dutch bijl (“axe”), German Bille (“axe”).

Noun

bill (plural bills)

1. Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff.

   • France had no infantry that dared to face the English bows and bills.

   • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons.

     In the British Museum there is an entry of a warrant, granted to Nicholas Spicer, authorising him to impress smiths for making two thousand Welch bills or glaives.

   Synonym: polearm

2. A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.

   Synonyms: billhook, hand bill, hedge bill

3. Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.

   Synonym: billman

4. A pickaxe, or mattock.
5. (nautical) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).

Derived terms

• brown-bill

Translations

Verb

bill (third-person singular simple present bills, present participle billing, simple past and past participle billed)

1. (transitive) To dig, chop, etc., with a bill.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English bill, bil, bille, bile, from Old English bile (“beak (of a bird); trunk (of an elephant)”), of unknown origin. Perhaps from a special use of Old English bil, bill (“hook; sword”) (see above).

Noun

bill (plural bills)

1. The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal.
   • 1595, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act III, Scene I, line 125.

     The woosel cock so black of hue, With orange-tawny bill, The throstle with his note so true, The wren with little quill...

   Synonyms: beak, neb, nib, pecker

2. A beak-like projection, especially a promontory.
3. Of a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.

Derived terms

• duckbill

Translations

Verb

bill (third-person singular simple present bills, present participle billing, simple past and past participle billed)

1. (obsolete) to peck
2. to stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness

   • As the ox hath his bow, sir, the horse his curb and the falcon her bells, so man hath his desires; and as pigeons bill, so wedlock would be nibbling.

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English bille, from Anglo-Norman bille, from Old French bulle, from Medieval Latin bulla (“seal", "sealed document”). Compare bull.

Noun

bill (plural bills)

1. A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.)
2. A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.)
4. A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
   • 1600, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II, Scene I, line 28.

     Why, I'll exhibit a bill in the parliament for the putting down of men.

   Synonym: measure

5. (obsolete, law) A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law.
   • 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 1:

     ... the legion of bills in the suit have been transformed into mere bills of mortality ...

6. (US, Canada) A piece of paper money; a banknote.
7. A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; an invoice.
   • 1607, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, Act III, Scene IV, line 85.

     My lord, here is my bill.

   Synonyms: account, invoice

9. A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods

   Synonyms: broadsheet, broadside, card, circular, flier, flyer, handbill, poster, posting, placard, notice, throwaway

   • 1595, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, Scene II, line 104.

     In the meantime I will draw a bill of properties, such as our play wants.

10. A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document; a bill of exchange. In the United States, it is usually called a note, a note of hand, or a promissory note.
    • 1600, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act I, Scene I, line 8.

      Ay, and Rato-lorum too; and a gentleman born, Master Parson; who writes himself Armigero, in any bill, warrant, quittance, or obligation, Armigero.

    Synonyms: bank bill, banker's bill, bank note, banknote, Federal Reserve note, government note, greenback, note

11. A set of items presented together.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• check

Verb

bill (third-person singular simple present bills, present participle billing, simple past and past participle billed)

1. (transitive) To advertise by a bill or public notice.

   Synonym: placard

2. (transitive) To charge; to send a bill to.

   Synonym: charge

   • 1989, Michelle Green, Understanding Health Insurance: A Guide to Billing and Reimbursement

     The physician explains that this is an option for her and that she can sign the facility's ABN so that if Medicare denies the claim, the facility can bill her for the scan.

Translations

Etymology 4

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

bill (plural bills)

1. The bell, or boom, of the bittern.
   • 1793, William Wordsworth, An Evening Walk

     The bittern's hollow bill was heard.

Cimbrian

Etymology 1

From Middle High German wille, from Old High German willo, from Proto-Germanic *wiljô (“will, wish, desire”). Cognate with German Wille, English will.

Noun

bill m

1. (Sette Comuni) will (legal document)

   Synonym: testamentén

Etymology 2

From Middle High German wilde, from Old High German wildi, from Proto-West Germanic *wilþ?, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz (“wild”). Cognate with German wild, English wild.

Adjective

bill (comparative billor, superlative dar billorste)

1. (Sette Comuni) wild, crazy, mad

Declension

Derived terms

• billa gòas
• billa hénna
• billar haano
• billar balt
• dorbillaran

References

• “bill” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

French

Etymology

From English bill; doublet of bulle (“bubble”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bil/

Noun

bill m (plural bills)

1. (law) bill (draft UK law)
2. (Canada) bill (invoice in a restaurant etc)

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish bilder, from Old Norse bíldr, from Proto-Germanic *b?þlaz (“axe”). An instrumental derivation of *b?tan? (“to bite”). Closely related to bila (“broadaxe”).

Noun

bill c

1. (agriculture) a share; the cutting blade of a plough

Declension

Derived terms

• plogbill

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English bill, from Middle English bille, from Anglo-Norman bille, from Old French bulle, from Medieval Latin bulla (“seal, sealed document”). Doublet of bulla.

Noun

bill c

1. (law) a draft of a law in English-speaking countries

Declension

References

• bill in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French plan (“a ground-plot of a building”), from plan (“flat”), a later form of the vernacular plain, from Latin planus (“flat, plane”); see plain, plane.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plæn/, [p?l?æn]
• (US regional) IPA^(key): [pl??n]
• Rhymes: -æn

Noun

plan (plural plans)

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.

   Synonym: floor plan

4. A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
   • 1815, William Wordsworth, Rob Roy's Grave

     The simple plan, / That they should take who have the power, / And they should keep who can.

5. A subscription to a service.

Usage notes

• A plan ("set of intended actions") can be developed, executed, implemented, ignored, abandoned, scrapped, changed, etc.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (puran)

Translations

Verb

plan (third-person singular simple present plans, present participle planning, simple past and past participle planned)

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

2. (transitive) To create a plan for.

3. (intransitive) To intend.

4. (intransitive) To make a plan.

Usage notes

• This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• plan in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• plan in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Azerbaijani

Noun

plan (definite accusative plan?, plural planlar)

1. plan (set of intended actions), scheme

2. draft, plan, scheme, contrivance, road map
3. layout

Declension

Derived terms

• planla?d?rmaq

Further reading

• “plan” in Obastan.com.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl?n/
• Hyphenation: plan
• Rhymes: -?n

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French plan, from Middle French plant.

Noun

plan n (plural plannen, diminutive plannetje n)

1. A set of intended actions, through which one expects to achieve a goal.
2. A technical drawing.
3. A detailed map of a relatively small area, such as a building or settlement.

   Synonym: plattegrond

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: plan

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

plan

1. first-person singular present indicative of plannen
2. imperative of plannen

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl??/
• Homophones: plans, plant, plants

Etymology 1

From earlier plant, derived from the verb planter. Doublet of plant. Or from Latin planus

Noun

plan m (plural plans)

1. plan
2. map (schematic maps of streets, subways, etc.)
3. plane (both flat surface and mathematical plane)
4. (film) shot
5. (slang, dated) A small case inserted in the rectum in order to hide one's valuables from a full-body search.

Derived terms

Descendants

• German: Plan
  • Norwegian Bokmål: plan

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin pl?nus. Doublet of plain, which was inherited, and piano.

Adjective

plan (feminine singular plane, masculine plural plans, feminine plural planes)

1. planar

Derived terms

• lichen plan

Further reading

• “plan” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin pl?nus.

Adjective

plan

1. flat, level, plane

Related terms

• planc

See also

• plac
• vualîf

Noun

plan m (plural plans)

1. plane
2. plan

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pl?nus.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?n

Adjective

plan (comparative planer, superlative am plansten)

1. (technical) planar, flat
2. (archaic) plain, forthright

Declension

Derived terms

• planlegen

See also

• Plan

Further reading

• “plan” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “plan” in Duden online

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch plan, from French plan (“a ground-plot of a building”), from plan (“flat”), a later form of the vernacular plain, from Latin planus (“flat, plane”). Doublet of pelan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plan/, [?plan], [p???lan]
• Hyphenation: plan

Noun

plan

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

   Synonym: rencana

Alternative forms

• pelan (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

Further reading

• “plan” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From German Plan (“project, plan”), from French plan, from Latin pl?num (“plain, level ground”), from pl?nus (“flat, even, level”), from Proto-Italic *pl?nos, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh?-no-s (“flattened”), from *pleh?- (“flat”).

Noun

plan m (definite singular planen, indefinite plural planer, definite plural planene)

1. a plan
2. a level or plane

Derived terms

References

• “plan” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pla?n/ (example of pronunciation)

Etymology 1

From German Plan, from Latin pl?num.

Noun

plan n (definite singular planet, indefinite plural plan, definite plural plana)

1. plane
2. level

Derived terms

• planovergang

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

plan m (definite singular planen, indefinite plural planar, definite plural planane)

1. a plan

Derived terms

Etymology 3

From Latin planus.

Adjective

plan (masculine and feminine plan, neuter plant, definite singular and plural plane, comparative planare, indefinite superlative planast, definite superlative planaste)

1. plane, flat

References

• “plan” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pla/

Noun

plan m (plural plans)

1. plan (a drawing showing technical details of a building)
2. plan (a set of intended actions)

Adjective

plan m (feminine singular plana, masculine plural plans, feminine plural planas)

1. flat

   Synonym: planièr

Adverb

plan

1. well

   Antonym: mal

2. very, quite

   Synonym: fòrça

Further reading

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians, 2 edition, ?ISBN, page 754.

Polish

Etymology

From German Plan, from French plan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plan/

Noun

plan m inan

1. plan

2. set (scenery for a film or play)

Declension

Further reading

• plan in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French plan, from Latin planus.

Adjective

plan m or n (feminine singular plan?, masculine plural plani, feminine and neuter plural plane)

1. plan
2. (geometry) plane

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Plan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plâ?n/
• Rhymes: -â?n

Noun

pl?n m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. plan

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From plano.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?plan/, [?plãn]

Noun

plan m (plural planes)

1. plan
2. scheme (systematic plan of future action)

   Synonyms: régimen, sistema

3. intention
4. (colloquial) mood

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Basque: plan

Further reading

• “plan” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Pronunciation

Adjective

plan (comparative planare, superlative planast)

1. flat; horizontal (of a surface)

Declension

Noun

plan n

1. (mathematics) a plane; flat surface.
2. a plane; level of existence

3. an aeroplane

   Synonym: flygplan

4. a plaza

Declension

Derived terms

See also

• sluttande plan
• lutande plan

Noun

plan c

1. a drawing showing how to construct a building, machine, etc.
2. a set of intended actions, through which one expects to achieve a goal.

Declension

Derived terms

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [plan]

Noun

plan (nominative plural plans)

1. plant (botany)

Declension

Derived terms

See also