Layout vs. Plan
Layoutnoun
A structured arrangement of items within certain limits.
Layoutnoun
A plan for such arrangement.
Layoutnoun
The act of laying out something.
Layoutnoun
(publishing) The process of arranging editorial content, advertising, graphics and other information to fit within certain constraints.
Layoutnoun
(engineering) A map or a drawing of a construction site showing the position of roads, buildings or other constructions.
Layoutnoun
(electronics) A specification of an integrated circuit showing the position of the physical components that will implement the schematic in silicon.
Layoutnoun
a plan or design of something that is laid out
Layoutnoun
the act of laying out (as by making plans for something)
Layoutnoun
the way in which the parts of something are arranged or laid out
Layoutnoun
the way in which text or pictures are set out on a page
Layoutnoun
the process of setting out material on a page
Layoutnoun
a thing arranged or set out in a particular way
Plannoun
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.
Plannoun
A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.
Plannoun
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.
Plannoun
A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
Plannoun
A subscription to a service; e.g., a phone plan, an Internet plan.
Planverb
(transitive) To design (a building, machine, etc.).
Planverb
(transitive) To create a plan for.
Planverb
(intransitive) To intend.
Planverb
See plan on.
Planverb
(intransitive) To make a plan.
Plannoun
A draught or form; properly, a representation drawn on a plane, as a map or a chart; especially, a top view, as of a machine, or the representation or delineation of a horizontal section of anything, as of a building; a graphic representation; a diagram.
Plannoun
A scheme devised; a method of action or procedure expressed or described in language; a project; as, the plan of a constitution; the plan of an expedition.
Plannoun
A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
Planverb
To form a delineation of; to draught; to represent, as by a diagram.
Planverb
To scheme; to devise; to contrive; to form in design; as, to plan the conquest of a country.
Plannoun
a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished;
Plannoun
an arrangement scheme;
Plannoun
scale drawing of a structure;
Planverb
have the will and intention to carry out some action;
Planverb
make plans for something;
Planverb
make or work out a plan for; devise;
Planverb
make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form;
Plan
A plan is typically any diagram or list of steps with details of timing and resources, used to achieve an objective to do something. It is commonly understood as a temporal set of intended actions through which one expects to achieve a goal.
