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planning
noun
1 planning
An act of formulating a program for a definite course of action.
Polish: obmyślanie, programowanie, układanie, projektowanie, snucie, rozplanowywanie, planowanie
2 planning
The act or process of drawing up plans or layouts for some project or enterprise.
Dutch: planning
Polish: planowanie
3 planning
The cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening:
— His planning for retirement was hindered by several uncertainties.
synonyms: preparation, provision.
adjective
Roget 626:
planned
etc.
v.;
strategic,
strategical;
planning
etc.
v.;
prepared,
in course of preparation
etc.
673;
under consideration;
on the tapis†,
on the carpet,
on the floor.
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plan
noun
1 plan
A series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished:
— They drew up a six-step plan.
— They discussed plans for a new bond issue.
synonyms: program, programme.
Roget 626:
plan,
scheme,
design,
project;
proposal,
proposition,
suggestion;
resolution,
motion;
precaution
etc.
(provision)
673;
deep-laid plan
etc.
(premeditated)
611;
system
etc.
(order)
58;
organization
etc.
(arrangement)
60;
germ
etc.
(cause)
153.
sketch,
skeleton,
outline,
draught,
draft,
ebauche [Fr.],
brouillon [Fr.];
rough cast,
rough draft,
draught copy;
copy;
proof,
revise.
drawing,
scheme,
schematic,
graphic,
chart,
flow chart
(representation)
554.
forecast,
program,
programme,
prospectus;
carte du pays [Fr.];
card;
bill,
protocol;
order of the day,
list of agenda;
bill of fare
etc.
(food)
298;
base of operations;
platform,
plank,
slate [U.S.],
ticket [U.S.].
role;
policy
etc.
(line of conduct)
692.
contrivance,
invention,
expedient,
receipt,
nostrum,
artifice,
device;
pipelaying [U.S.];
stratagem
etc.
(cunning)
702;
trick
etc.
(deception)
545;
alternative,
loophole;
shift
etc.
(substitute)
147;
last shift
etc.
(necessity)
601.
measure,
step;
stroke,
stroke of policy;
master stroke;
trump card,
court card;
cheval de bataille [Fr.],
great gun;
coup,
coup d'etat [Fr.];
clever stroke,
bold stroke,
good move,
good hit,
good stroke;
bright thought,
bright idea.
intrigue,
cabal,
plot,
conspiracy,
complot†,
machination;
subplot,
underplot†,
counterplot.
schemer,
schemist†,
schematist†;
strategist,
machinator;
projector,
artist,
promoter,
designer
etc.
v.;
conspirator;
intrigant
etc.
(cunning)
702†.
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Roget 527:
information,
enlightenment,
acquaintance,
knowledge
etc.
490;
publicity
etc.
531;
data
etc.
467.
communication,
intimation;
notice,
notification;
enunciation,
annunciation;
announcement;
communiqu_e;
representation,
round robin,
presentment.
case,
estimate,
specification,
report,
advice,
monition;
news
etc.
532;
return
etc.
(record)
551;
account
etc.
(description)
594;
statement
etc.
(affirmation)
535.
mention;
acquainting
etc.
v.;
instruction
etc.
(teaching)
537;
outpouring;
intercommunication,
communicativeness.
informant,
authority,
teller,
intelligencer†,
reporter,
exponent,
mouthpiece;
informer,
eavesdropper,
delator,
detective;
sleuth;
mouchard†,
spy,
newsmonger;
messenger
etc.
534;
amicus curiae [Lat.].
valet de place,
cicerone,
pilot,
guide;
guidebook,
handbook;
vade mecum [Lat.];
manual;
map,
plan,
chart,
gazetteer;
itinerary
etc.
(journey)
266.
hint,
suggestion,
innuendo,
inkling,
whisper,
passing word,
word in the ear,
subaudition†,
cue,
byplay;
gesture
etc.
(indication)
550;
gentle hint,
broad hint;
verbum sapienti [Lat.],
a word to the wise;
insinuation
etc.
(latency)
526.
information theory.
[units of information]
bit,
byte,
word,
doubleword [Comp.],
quad word,
paragraph,
segment.
[information storage media]
magnetic media,
paper medium,
optical media;
random access memory,
RAM;
read-only memory,
ROM;
write once read mostly memory,
WORM.
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Roget 60:
arrangement;
plan
etc.
626;
preparation
etc.
673;
disposal,
disposition;
collocation,
allocation;
distribution;
sorting
etc.
v.;
assortment,
allotment,
apportionment,
taxis,
taxonomy,
syntaxis†,
graduation,
organization;
grouping;
tabulation.
analysis,
classification,
clustering,
division,
digestion.
[Result of arrangement]
digest;
synopsis
etc.
(compendium)
596;
syntagma [Gramm.],
table,
atlas;
file,
database;
register.
etc.
(record)
551;
organism,
architecture.
[Instrument for sorting]
sieve,
riddle,
screen,
sorter.
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Roget 692:
conduct
[actions of an individual agent];
behavior;
deportment,
comportment;
carriage,
maintien†,
demeanor,
guise,
bearing,
manner,
observance.
dealing,
transaction
etc.
(action)
680;
business
etc.
625.
tactics,
game,
game plan,
policy,
polity;
generalship,
statesmanship,
seamanship;
strategy,
strategics†;
plan
etc.
626.
management;
husbandry;
housekeeping,
housewifery;
stewardship;
menage;
regime;
economy,
economics;
political economy;
government
etc.
(direction)
693.
execution,
manipulation,
treatment,
campaign,
career,
life,
course,
walk,
race,
record.
course of conduct,
line of conduct,
line of action,
line of proceeding;
role;
process,
ways,
practice,
procedure,
modus operandi,
MO,
method of operating;
method
&c.;
path
etc.
627.
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Roget 266:
travel;
traveling
etc.
v..
wayfaring,
campaigning.
journey,
excursion,
expedition,
tour,
trip,
grand tour,
circuit,
peregrination,
discursion†,
ramble,
pilgrimage,
hajj,
trek,
course,
ambulation†,
march,
walk,
promenade,
constitutional,
stroll,
saunter,
tramp,
jog trot,
turn,
stalk,
perambulation;
noctambulation†,
noctambulism;
somnambulism;
outing,
ride,
drive,
airing,
jaunt.
equitation,
horsemanship,
riding,
manege [Fr.],
ride and tie;
basophobia†.
roving,
vagrancy,
pererration†;
marching and countermarching;
nomadism;
vagabondism,
vagabondage;
hoboism [U.S.];
gadding;
flit,
flitting,
migration;
emigration,
immigration,
demigration†,
intermigration†;
wanderlust.
plan,
itinerary,
guide;
handbook,
guidebook,
road book;
Baedeker†,
Bradshaw,
Murray;
map,
road map,
transportation guide,
subway map.
procession,
cavalcade,
caravan,
file,
cortege,
column.
[Organs and instruments of locomotion]
vehicle
etc.
272;
automobile,
train,
bus,
airplane,
plane,
autobus,
omnibus,
subway,
motorbike,
dirt bike,
off-road vehicle,
van,
minivan,
motor scooter,
trolley,
locomotive;
legs,
feet,
pegs,
pins,
trotters.
traveler
etc.
268.
depot [U.S.],
railway station,
station.
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Dutch: ontwerp, bedoeling, bestek, idee, plan, voornemen
Polish: program, plan
2 plan
An arrangement scheme:
— A plan for seating guests.
synonym: design.
Roget 554:
representation,
representment†;
imitation
etc.
19;
illustration,
delineation,
depictment†;
imagery,
portraiture,
iconography;
design,
designing;
art,
fine arts;
painting
etc.
556;
sculpture
etc.
557;
engraving
etc.
558;
photography,
cinematography;
radiography,
autoradiography [Bioch.],
fluorography [Chem],
sciagraphy†.
personation,
personification;
impersonation;
drama
etc.
599.
picture,
photo,
photograph,
daguerreotype,
snapshot;
X-ray photo;
movie film,
movie;
tracing,
scan,
TV image,
video image,
image file,
graphics,
computer graphics,
televideo,
closed-circuit TV.
copy
etc.
21;
drawing,
sketch,
drought,
draft;
plot,
chart,
figure,
scheme.
image,
likeness,
icon,
portrait,
striking likeness,
speaking likeness;
very image;
effigy,
facsimile.
figure,
figure head;
puppet,
doll,
figurine,
aglet†,
manikin,
lay-figure,
model,
mammet†,
marionette,
fantoccini†,
waxwork,
bust;
statue,
statuette.
ideograph,
hieroglyphic,
anaglyph,
kanji [Jap.];
diagram,
monogram.
map,
plan,
chart,
ground plan,
projection,
elevation
(plan)
626.
ichnography†,
cartography;
atlas;
outline,
scheme;
view
etc.
(painting)
556;
radiograph,
scotograph†,
sciagraph†;
spectrogram,
heliogram†.
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Dutch: bovenaanzicht
3 plan
Scale drawing of a structure:
— The plans for City Hall were on file.
synonym: architectural plan.
Dutch: schema, bestek, bouwplan, bouwtekening, plan
Polish: plan
verb
1 plan
Have the will and intention to carry out some action:
— He plans to be in graduate school next year.
— The rebels had planned turmoil and confusion.
synonym: be after.
2 plan
Make plans for something.
3 plan
Make or work out a plan for; devise:
— Plan an attack.
synonyms: contrive, design, project.
Roget 626:
plan,
scheme,
design,
frame,
contrive,
project,
forecast,
sketch;
devise,
invent
etc.
(imagine)
515;
set one's wits to work
etc.
515;
spring a project;
fall upon,
hit upon;
strike out,
chalk out,
cut out,
lay out,
map out;
lay down a plan;
shape out a course,
mark out a course;
predetermine
etc.
611;
concert,
preconcert,
preestablish;
prepare
etc.
673;
hatch,
hatch a plot concoct;
take steps,
take measures.
cast,
recast,
systematize,
organize;
arrange
etc.
60;
digest,
mature.
plot;
counter-plot,
counter-mine;
dig a mine;
lay a train;
intrigue
etc.
(cunning)
702.
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Dutch: ontwerpen, bedenken, concipiëren, plannen, uitdenken, uitstippelen, verzinnen, vinden
4 plan
Make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form:
— Plan the new wing of the museum.
synonym: design.
Dutch: plannen, ontwerpen, projecteren
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