Forecast vs Plan - What's the difference?
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To estimate how something will be in the future.
(obsolete) To contrive or plan beforehand.
* Milton
An estimation of a future condition.
A prediction of the weather.
:* What's the forecast for tomorrow?
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.
As verbs the difference between forecast and plan
is that forecast is to estimate how something will be in the future while plan is to design (a building, machine, etc.).As nouns the difference between forecast and plan
is that forecast is an estimation of a future condition while plan is 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.As a proper noun PLAN is
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English
(wikipedia forecast)Verb
- to forecast the weather
- to forecast a storm
- If it happen as I did forecast .
Noun
(en noun)External links
* *plan
English
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
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