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Plan vs Paragon - What's the difference?

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Plan is a related term of paragon.


As nouns the difference between plan and paragon

is that plan is a tablet (for writing and erasing) while paragon is a person of preeminent qualities, who acts as a pattern or model of some given (especially positive) quality.

As a verb paragon is

to compare; to parallel; to put in rivalry or emulation with.

plan

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

    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 plan

    Derived 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 plan

    Verb

    (plann)
  • To design (a building, machine, etc.).
  • To create a plan for.
  • To intend.
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  • , title= 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.}}
  • See plan on.
  • To make a plan.
  • Usage notes

    * This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . See

    Derived terms

    * planner * plan on * plan out

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    paragon

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person of preeminent qualities, who acts as a pattern or model of some given (especially positive) quality.
  • In the novel, Constanza is a paragon of virtue who would never compromise her reputation.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Man, the paragon of animals!
  • * Emerson
  • The riches of sweet Mary's son, / Boy-rabbi, Israel's paragon .
  • * '>citation
  • (obsolete) A companion; a match; an equal.
  • * Sir Philip Sidney
  • Philoclea, who indeed had no paragon but her sister
    (Spenser)
  • (obsolete) Comparison; competition.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ix:
  • good by paragone / Of euill, may more notably be rad, / As white seemes fairer, macht with blacke attone [...].
  • (typography) A size of type between great primer and double pica.
  • A flawless diamond of at least 100 carats.
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To compare; to parallel; to put in rivalry or emulation with.
  • (Sir Philip Sidney)
  • To compare with; to equal; to rival.
  • (Spenser)
  • * Glover
  • In arms anon to paragon the morn, / The morn new rising.
  • To serve as a model for; to surpass.
  • * Shakespeare
  • He hath achieved a maid / That paragons description and wild fame.
  • To be equal; to hold comparison.