Excogitate vs Plan - What's the difference?
excogitate | plan | Related terms |
To think over something carefully; to consider fully; cogitate.
* 2007': Did he ponder the harmony of the spheres? Certainly not: celestial spheres were first '''excogitated decades or more after Pythagoras' death. — MF Burnyeat, ‘Other Lives’, ''London Review of Books 29:4, p. 3
To come to a conclusion through reason or careful thought.
* Whewell
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.
A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.
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.
A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
* Wordsworth
To design (a building, machine, etc.).
To create a plan for.
To intend.
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To make a plan.
Excogitate is a related term of plan.
As a verb excogitate
is to think over something carefully; to consider fully; cogitate.As a noun plan is
a tablet (for writing and erasing).excogitate
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Verb
(excogitat)- After many years of study, he excogitated a solution.
- This evidence thus excogitated out of the general theory.
plan
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Noun
(en noun)- The plans for many important buildings were once publicly available.
- He didn't really have a plan ; he had a goal and a habit of control.
- Seen in plan , the building had numerous passageways not apparent to visitors.
- The simple plan , / That they should take who have the power, / And they should keep who can.
Usage notes
* A plan ("set of intended actions") can be developed, executed, implemented, ignored, abandoned, scrapped, changed, etc.Synonyms
* (drawing of a building from above): floor planDerived terms
* battleplan * floor plan * business plan * development plan * marketing plan * masterplan * game plan * contingency plan * action plan * escalation plan * lesson plan * plan A * plan B * price plan * rate planVerb
(plann)Can China clean up fast enough?, passage=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.}}