Plan vs Prototype - What's the difference?
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Plan is a related term of prototype. As nouns the difference between plan and prototype is that plan is a tablet (for writing and erasing) while prototype is an original object or form which is a basis for other objects, forms, or for its models and generalizations. As a verb prototype is to create a prototype of.
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
Related terms
* (2-dimensional drawing of a building) blueprint
Verb
( plann)
To design (a building, machine, etc.).
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To create a plan for.
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To intend.
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See plan on.
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To make a plan.
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Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . See
Derived terms
* planner
* plan on
* plan out
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prototype Noun
( en noun)
An original object or form which is a basis for other objects, forms, or for its models and generalizations
An early sample or model built to test a concept or process
- The prototype had loose wires and rough edges, but it worked.
(semantics) An instance of a category or a concept that combines its most representative attributes.
- A robin is a prototype of a bird; a penguin is not.
(computing) A declaration of a function that specifies the name, return type, and parameters but none of the body, or actual code.
Synonyms
* See also
Derived terms
* prototype theory
Related terms
* first article
Verb
(prototyp)
To create a prototype of.
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