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plan — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • device noun A piece of equipment, especially electronic or mechanical, built to perform a specific job.
  • even adj Flat, level, or smooth.
  • field noun An open area of land, especially one used for growing crops, grazing animals, or playing sports.
  • flat adj Level and even, with no slope, bumps, or curves.
  • level adj Flat and even; at the same height throughout, or matching a given height.
  • pitch noun A persuasive presentation intended to sell or promote something.
  • 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."
  • even Flat and level.
  • field A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, or playing area in a board game or a computer game.
  • field (physics) A physical phenomenon (such as force, potential or fluid velocity) that pervades a region; a mathematical model of such a phenomenon that associates each point and time with a scalar, vector or tensor quantity.
  • flat Having no variations in height.
  • level The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.
  • pitch (sports, UK, Australia, NZ) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.)
  • plane Of a surface: flat or level.

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.

even — full definition

  1. adj Flat, level, or smooth.
  2. adj Equal or balanced; showing no strong variation.
  3. adj Of a number, exactly divisible by two.
  4. adv Used to emphasize something surprising or extreme.
  5. verb To make level, equal, or balanced.

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