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plan

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

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end

English

Alternative forms

  • ende (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English ende, from Old English ende, from Proto-Germanic *andijaz (compare Dutch einde, German Ende, Norwegian ende, Swedish ände), from Proto-Indo-European *h?entíos (compare Old Irish ét (end, point), Latin antiae (forelock), Albanian anë (side), Ancient Greek ?????? (antíos, opposite), Sanskrit ?????? (antya, last)), from *h?entíos (front, forehead). More at and and anti-.

The verb is from Middle English enden, endien, from Old English endian (to end, to make an end of, complete, finish, abolish, destroy, come to an end, die), from Proto-Germanic *andij?n? (to finish, end), denominative from *andijaz.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: ?nd, IPA(key): /?nd/
  • Rhymes: -?nd

Noun

end (plural ends)

  1. The terminal point of something in space or time.
    • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows:
      they followed him... into a sort of a central hall; out of which they could dimly see other long tunnel-like passages branching, passages mysterious and without apparent end.
  2. (by extension) The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
    Is there no end to this madness?
  3. (by extension) Death.
    He met a terrible end in the jungle.
    I hope the end comes quickly.
    • c. 1592, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Richard the Third, Act II, scene i:
      Confound your hidden falsehood, and award / Either of you to be the other's end.
    • 1732, Alexander Pope, (epitaph) On Mr. Gay, in Westminster Abbey:
      A safe companion and and easy friend / Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end.
  4. The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide.
    Hold the string at both ends.
    My father always sat at the end of the table.
  5. Result.
    • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Act V, scene i:
      O that a man might know / The end of this day's business ere it come!
  6. A purpose, goal, or aim.
    • 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe, Act III, scene i:
      But, losing her, the End of Living lose.
    • 1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character, Aphorism VI, page 146:
      When every man is his own end, all things will come to a bad end.
    • 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.21:
      There is a long argument to prove that foreign conquest is not the end of the State, showing that many people took the imperialist view.
  7. (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
  8. (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.
    • 1926, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Penguin 2000, page 11:
      Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven [...].
  9. (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
  10. (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex.
  11. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
    odds and ends
    • c. 1592, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Richard the Third, Act I, scene iii:
      I clothe my naked villainy / With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ, / And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
  12. One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
  13. (in the plural, slang, African-American Vernacular) Money.
    Don't give them your ends. You jack that shit!

Usage notes

  • Adjectives often used with "end": final, ultimate, deep, happy, etc.

Synonyms

  • (final point in space or time): conclusion, limit, terminus, termination
  • See also Thesaurus:goal

Antonyms

  • (final point of something): beginning, start

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

  • ? Japanese: ???

Translations

Verb

end (third-person singular simple present ends, present participle ending, simple past and past participle ended)

  1. (intransitive, ergative) to come to an end
  2. (transitive) To finish, terminate.
    • And on the seventh day God ended his worke []
    • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II, scene iii:
      If thou keep promise, I shall end this strife
    • 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XLV, lines 7-8:
      But play the man, stand up and end you, / When your sickness is your soul.
Conjugation

Translations

Derived terms

  • ending
  • end up
  • never-ending
  • unending

Anagrams

  • DEN, DNE, Den, Den., NDE, NED, Ned, den, edn., ned

Albanian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Albanian *antis/t, from Proto-Indo-European *h?n?t-jes/t (to plait, weave).

Verb

end (first-person singular past tense enda, participle endur)

  1. (transitive) to weave
    Synonyms: vej, vegjoj
Derived terms
  • endem

Etymology 2

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?end?-.

Verb

end (first-person singular past tense enda, participle endur)

  1. (intransitive) to bloom, blossom
  2. (transitive) to flyblow
Derived terms
  • endëc
Related terms
  • endë

References


Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse enn, probably from Proto-Germanic *þan (then), like English than, German denn (than, for). For the loss of þ-, cf. Old Norse at (that) from Proto-Germanic *þat (that)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?n/

Conjunction

end

  1. than (in comparisons)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse enn, from Proto-Germanic *andi, from Proto-Indo-European *h?entí.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?n/

Adverb

end

  1. still (archaic)
  2. (with interrogatives) no matter, ever
  3. even (in the modern language only in the combination end ikke "not even")

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??n?/

Verb

end

  1. imperative of ende

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch ende (end) with apocope of the final -e.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?nt/
  • Hyphenation: end
  • Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

end n (plural enden, diminutive endje n)

  1. end
  2. travel distance
  3. a short length of something (such as a stick or a rope)

Synonyms

  • einde
  • eind

Usage notes

The form end is more informal than both einde and eind and is mainly used colloquially.

Anagrams

  • den

Estonian

Pronoun

end

  1. partitive singular of ise

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English ende.

Noun

end

  1. Alternative form of ende

Etymology 2

From Old English endian.

Verb

end

  1. Alternative form of enden

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

end

  1. imperative of ende

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

end

  1. imperative of enda and ende

Vilamovian

Etymology

From Middle High German ende, from Old High German enti.

Pronunciation

Noun

end n

  1. end

Antonyms

  • ofaong

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