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計画 — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • blueprint noun A detailed technical drawing used for building or design, originally printed white-on-blue.
  • plan noun A set of intended actions worked out in advance to achieve a goal.
  • program noun A planned set of activities or a course of action with a goal.
  • project noun A planned piece of work with a specific goal, carried out in stages.
  • scheme noun A plan for how to do something, especially an organized or official one.

Senses

計画 is used for these senses in English:

  • blueprint (informal, by extension) Any detailed plan, whether literal or figurative.
  • plan A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.
  • plan 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.
  • plan (transitive) To design (a building, machine, etc.).
  • program A set of structured activities; a plan of action.
  • project A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.
  • scheme A systematic plan of future action. [from 18th c.]
  • scheme (transitive) To plan; to contrive; to manuever.

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.

plan — full definition

  1. noun A set of intended actions worked out in advance to achieve a goal.
  2. noun A detailed drawing showing the layout of a building or structure, usually as seen from above.
  3. verb To think out and arrange actions in advance.

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