Plan vs Picture - What's the difference?
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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.
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To design (a building, machine, etc.).
To create a plan for.
To intend.
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To make a plan.
A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.
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*:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
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*(Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
*:My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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*:So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture . I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
*2007 , The Workers' Republic
*:Prior to seeing him and meeting him, and hearing him speak, I had conjured up a picture' of him in my mind, which actual contact with him proved to be an illusion. I had conceived of him.
A painting.
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(label) A motion picture.
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("the pictures") Cinema (as a form of entertainment).
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A paragon, a perfect example or specimen (of a category).
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The art of painting; representation by painting.
*Sir (Henry Wotton) (1568-1639)
*:any well-expressed imageeither in picture or sculpture
A figure; a model.
*(James Howell) (c.1594–1666)
*:the young king's picture in virgin wax
To represent in or with a picture.
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To imagine or envision.
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To depict.
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In transitive terms the difference between plan and picture
is that plan is to create a plan for while picture is to depict.As a proper noun PLAN
is the People's Liberation Army Navy.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
(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.}}
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . SeeDerived terms
* planner * plan on * plan outStatistics
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* * English control verbs ----picture
English
Noun
(en noun)Pixels or Perish, passage=Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.}}
citation, passage=Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures , mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light.}}
Synonyms
* (representation as in the imagination) imageDerived terms
* out of the picture * picture-perfect * picture postcard * (as) pretty as a picture * the big picture * picturesque * picture framingVerb
(pictur)- Picture yourself on a boat on a river / With tangerine trees and marmalade skies,
