a scale drawing of a structure
artifact noun (man-made objects)
architectural plans
The architectural plans for City Hall were on file.
"drawing, sketch, or diagram of any object", from French plan "ground plan,...
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a plan for architecture, and the documentation of written and graphic descriptions of the architectural elements of a building project including sketches, drawings and details. The term "Architectural plan" can have multiple related meanings: Plan for... (36 of 1709 words, 24 images)
a detailed scheme, method, etc, for attaining an objective | [sometimes plural] a proposed, usually tentative idea for doing something | a drawing to ... (22 of 576 words, 9 definitions, 10 usage examples, pronunciation)
a drawing or diagram drawn on a plane: as ; a top or horizontal view of an object ; a large-scale map of a small area | a method for achieving an end ... (32 of 383 words, 4 definitions, 6 usage examples, pronunciations)
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to arrange the parts of; "design" | to devise or project the realization or achievement of | to have in mind; "intend" | to make plans | to have a ... (26 of 189 words, 5 definitions, 5 usage examples)
a detailed proposal for doing or achieving something | [with modifier] a scheme for the regular payment of contributions towards a pension, savings ... (22 of 308 words, 14 definitions, 12 usage examples, pronunciation)
a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance. | a design or scheme of arrangement. | a specific project or ... (23 of 203 words, 12 definitions, 9 usage examples, pronunciation)
a series of actions that you think about carefully to help you to achieve something | something that you intend to do and make arrangements to achieve ... (26 of 201 words, 3 definitions, 11 usage examples, pronunciation)
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[intransitive/transitive] to think carefully about a series of actions that ... | [transitive] to intend to do something | [transitive] to think about ... (21 of 190 words, 3 definitions, 9 usage examples, pronunciation)
A scheme, program, or method worked out beforehand for the accomplishment of an objective | A proposed or tentative project or course of action | A ... (24 of 188 words, 10 definitions, 6 usage examples, pronunciation)
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... (37 of 144 words, 8 definitions, 8 usage examples, pronunciation)
a drawing or diagram showing the arrangement in horizontal section of a structure, piece of ground, etc. | a scheme or program for making, doing, or ... (25 of 127 words, 8 definitions, pronunciation)
a set of decisions about how to do something in the future | a type of arrangement for financial investment | "go according to plan": to happen in the ... (27 of 81 words, 3 definitions, 8 usage examples, pronunciation)
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a drawing of a building, town, area, vehicle, machine, etc. which only shows its shape from above, its size, and the position of important details | ... (25 of 86 words, 2 definitions, 4 usage examples, pronunciation)
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to think about and decide what you are going to do or how you are going to do something | to intend to do something or that an event or result should ... (31 of 111 words, 2 definitions, 6 usage examples, pronunciation)
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to design a building or structure (6 of 30 words, 1 usage example, pronunciation)
the art or technique of producing images on a surface, usually paper, by means of marks, usually of ink, graphite, chalk, charcoal, or crayon. Drawing ... (25 of 1604 words, 10 images)
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in yarn manufacture, process of attenuating the loose assemblage of fibres called sliver by passing it through a series of rollers, thus straightening ... (23 of 83 words)
art of the draftsman. In its broadest sense it includes every use of the delineated line and is thus basic to the arts of painting, architecture, ... (26 of 159 words)
a method of doing something that is worked out in advance | something that somebody intends or has arranged to do (often used in the plural) | a ... (26 of 201 words, 8 definitions, pronunciation)
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First use: 1670s
Origin: "drawing, sketch, or diagram of any object", from French plan "ground plan, map", literally "plane surface" (mid-16th century), from Latin ... (21 of 96 etymology words)
Origin: French, alteration (influenced by plan, flat surface) of plant, ground plan, map, from planter, to ... (15 of 30 etymology words)
Origin: French, plan, plane, foundation: merging of plan ( from Latin planus: see "plain") with Middle French plant from Italian ... (19 of 29 etymology words)
Origin: French plan ("a ground-plot of a building"), from plan ("flat"), a later form of the vernacular plain, from Latin planus ("flat, plane"); see plain, plane.
First use: late 17th century
Origin: French, from earlier plant "ground plan, plane surface", influenced in sense by Italian pianta "plan of building". Compare with "plant"
First use: 18th century
Origin: via French from Latin plānus flat; compare plane1, plain1 | from Latin plānus flat, level
First use: 1706
Origin: French, plane, foundation, ground plan; partly from Latin planum level ground, from neuter of planus level; partly from French ... (20 of 31 etymology words)
First use: Late 17th century
Origin: French, "ground plan", alteration (after plan "flat") of plant from Latin plantare
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