plan — meaning in English

English meaning

• blueprint noun A detailed technical drawing used for building or design, originally printed white-on-blue.
• device noun A piece of equipment, especially electronic or mechanical, built to perform a specific job.
• level adj Flat and even; at the same height throughout, or matching a given height.
• plan noun A set of intended actions worked out in advance to achieve a goal.
• plane noun An aircraft; an airplane.

Senses

plan is used for these senses in English:

• device A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice. 1602, Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor. "This is our device,/ That Falstaff at that oak shall meet with us."
• level The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.
• plane Of a surface: flat or level.

blueprint — full definition

1. noun A detailed technical drawing used for building or design, originally printed white-on-blue.
2. noun A detailed plan for achieving something, whether literal or figurative.
3. verb To plan something out in careful detail.

device — full definition

1. noun A piece of equipment, especially electronic or mechanical, built to perform a specific job.
2. noun A scheme or trick, often meant to deceive or gain advantage.
3. noun A technique a writer or speaker uses deliberately to create an effect, such as a rhetorical or literary device.

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