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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

English

Etymology

Uncertain.

• Perhaps from From Middle English *trikke, from Old Northern French trique (related to Old French trichier; French: tricher), itself possibly from Middle High German trechen (“to launch a shot at, play a trick on”), but the Old French verb more likely is derived from Vulgar Latin *tricc?re, from Late Latin tric?re, from Latin tr?cor, tr?c?r? (“behave in an evasive manner, search for detours; trifle, delay”).
• Alternatively, perhaps from Dutch trek (“a pull, draw, trick”), from trekken (“to draw”), from Middle Dutch trekken, tr?ken (“to pull, place, put, move”), from Old Dutch *trekkan, *trekan (“to move, drag”), from Proto-Germanic *trakjan?, *trekan? (“to drag, scrape, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreg- (“to drag, scrape”).

If the second proposal is correct, the term is cognate with Low German trekken, Middle High German trecken, trechen, Danish trække, and Old Frisian trekka, Romanian truc and other Romance languages.

Compare track, treachery, trig, and trigger.

Pronunciation

• enPR: tr?k, IPA^(key): /t??k/, [t??????k], [t?????k]
• Rhymes: -?k

Noun

trick (plural tricks)

1. Something designed to fool or swindle.

2. A single element of a magician's (or any variety entertainer's) act; a magic trick.

3. An entertaining difficult physical action.
   • 1995, All Aboard for Space: Introducing Space to Youngsters (page 158)

     Yo-yo tricks involving sleeping the yo-yo (like "walking the dog" and "rocking the baby") cannot be performed in space.

4. An effective, clever or quick way of doing something.
5. Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank.

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6. (dated) A particular habit or manner; a peculiarity; a trait.
   • c. 1595, William Shakespeare, King John Act I, scene I

     He hath a trick of Cœur de Lion's face.

   • 1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear act IV, scene VI:

     The trick of that voice I do well remember.

7. A knot, braid, or plait of hair.

   • I cannot tell , but it stirs me more than all your court curls , or your spangles , or your tricks

8. (card games) A sequence in which each player plays a card and a winning play is determined.
9. (slang) A sex act, chiefly one performed for payment; an act of prostitution.
   • 1988, John H. Lindquist, Misdemeanor Crime: Trivial Criminal Pursuit, page 43:

     Perhaps the most important thing a prostitute learns is how to "manage" the client; how to con him into spending more money than he planned. Learning how to perform tricks takes only a few minutes. Learning how to "hustle" the client takes longer.

   • 2010, Richard Gill, Paloma Azul, page 139:

     "How did you get into all this?" "I started doing tricks when I was young and I don't mean the magic circle. I learned about sex from an early age. There was nothing else to do in Pitsea except heavy petting and getting F grades at school."

   • 2019, Julie S. Draskoczy, Belomor: Criminality and Creativity in Stalin’s Gulag:

     When he later asked her to strip and perform tricks for him, she refused, and he chased her away. She had similar experiences with other men until she eventually fell into prostitution: […]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:trick.
10. (slang) A customer to a prostitute.
    • 2011, Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life (page 99)

      Ten minutes after she got down she broke luck. A white trick in a thirty-seven Buick picked her up. I timed her. She had racehorse speed.

11. A daily period of work, especially in shift-based jobs.
    • 1899, New York (State), Bureau of Statistics, Deptartment of Labor, Annual Report:

      Woodside Junction—On 8 hour basis, first trick $60, second trick $60, third trick $50.

    • 1949, Labor arbitration reports, page 738

      The Union contends that Fifer was entitled to promotion to the position of Group Leader on the third trick in the Core Room Department.

12. (nautical) A sailor's spell of work at the helm, usually two hours long.
13. A toy; a trifle; a plaything.
    • 1599, William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim

      the tricks and toyes that in them lurke,

Synonyms

• (something designed to fool): artifice, con, gambit, ploy, rip-off, See also Thesaurus:deception
• (magic trick): illusion, magic trick, sleight of hand
• (customer to a prostitute): john, see also Thesaurus:prostitute's client
• (entertaining difficult physical action):
• (daily period of work): shift

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

trick (third-person singular simple present tricks, present participle tricking, simple past and past participle tricked)

1. (transitive) To fool; to cause to believe something untrue; to deceive.

2. (heraldry) To draw (as opposed to blazon - to describe in words).
   • They forget that they are in the statutes: […] there they are trick'd, they and their pedigrees.

3. To dress; to decorate; to adorn fantastically; often followed by up, off, or out.
   • 1735, Alexander Pope, Of the Characters of Women

     Trick her off in air.

   • 1693, John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education

     Tricking up their children in fine clothes.

   • 1825, Thomas Macaulay, An Essay on John Milton

     They are simple, but majestic, records of the feelings of the poet; as little tricked out for the public eye as his diary would have been.

Synonyms

• (to fool): con, dupe, fool, gull, have, hoodwink, pull the wool over someone's eyes, rip off
• (to trick out): mod
• See also Thesaurus:deceive

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

trick (comparative tricker, superlative trickest)

1. Involving trickery or deception.

2. Able to perform tricks.

3. Defective or unreliable.

4. (chiefly US, slang) Stylish or cool.

Danish

Etymology

From English trick.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [?t?????]

Noun

trick (singular definite tricket, plural indefinite trickene)

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Synonyms

• kneb

Further reading

• “trick” in Den Danske Ordbog