Plan vs Planet - 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.
* Wordsworth
To design (a building, machine, etc.).
To create a plan for.
To intend.
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To make a plan.
*, II.12:
*:Be they not dreames of humane vanity,?
*1749 , (Henry Fielding), Tom Jones , Folio Society, 1973, p.288:
*:The moonbegan to rise from her bed, where she had slumbered away the day, in order to sit up all night. Jones had not travelled far before he paid his compliments to that beautiful planet , and, turning to his companion, asked him if he had ever beheld so delicious an evening?
*1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society, 2012, p.361:
*:Another of Boehme's followers, the Welshman Morgan Llwyd, also believed that the seven planets could be found within man.
(lb) A body which orbits the Sun directly and is massive enough to be in hydrostatic equilibrium (effectively meaning a spheroid) and to dominate its orbit; specifically, the eight major bodies of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. (Pluto was considered a planet until 2006 and has now been reclassified as a dwarf planet.)
*1640 , (John Wilkins), (title):
*:A Discovrse concerning a New Planet'. Tending to prove, That 'tis probable our Earth is one of the ' Planets .
*2006 , Alok Jha, The Guardian , 22 December:
*:Their decision will force a rewrite of science textbooks because the solar system is now a place with eight planets' and three newly defined "dwarf ' planets "—a new category of object that includes Pluto.
A large body which directly orbits any star (or star cluster) but which has not attained nuclear fusion.
In phrases such as the planet'', ''this planet , sometimes refers to the Earth.
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*:"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet ." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;."
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As nouns the difference between plan and planet
is that plan is a tablet (for writing and erasing) while planet is .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
*External links
* * English control verbs ----planet
English
(wikipedia planet)Noun
(en noun)Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]:
