planとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /plæn/, [pʰl̥æn]
• (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.

   • 1980, John Lennon (lyrics かつ music), “Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)”, in Double Fantasy:

     Life is what happens to you / While you're busy making other plans

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.

   Synonym: floor plan

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

4. A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
   • 1815, William Wordsworth, Rob Roy's Grave

     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.

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

• → Japanese: プラン (puran)

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. (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

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.