planとは

発音

• IPA^(key): /plæn/
• (米国発音 regional) IPA^(key): [plɛən]
  • 韻: -æn

名詞

plan (複数形 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.

   The plans for many important buildings were once publicly available.

2. A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.

   He didn't really have a plan; he had a goal and a habit of control.

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.

   Seen in plan, the building had numerous passageways not apparent to visitors.

4. A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
   • Wordsworth

     The simple plan, / That they should take who have the power, / And they should keep who can.

5. A subscription to a service.

   a phone plan

   an Internet plan

使用する際の注意点

• A plan ("set of intended actions") can be developed, executed, implemented, ignored, abandoned, scrapped, changed, etc.

同意語

• (drawing of a building from above): floor plan

派生語

関連する語

• (2-dimensional drawing of a building) blueprint

動詞

plan (三人称単数 現在形 plans, 現在分詞 planning, 過去形および過去分詞形 planned)

1. (transitive) To design (a building, machine, etc.).

   The architect planned the building for the client.

2. (transitive) To create a plan for.

   They jointly planned the project in phases, with good detail for the first month.

3. (intransitive) To intend.
   • 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:

     It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.

   He planned to go, but work intervened.

4. See plan on.

   I was planning on going, but something came up.

5. (intransitive) To make a plan.

   They planned for the worst, bringing lots of emergency supplies.

使用する際の注意点

• This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs

派生語

• planner
• plan on
• plan out

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.