Plan vs. Idea

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.

Ideanoun

(philosophy) An abstract archetype of a given thing, compared to which real-life examples are seen as imperfect approximations; pure essence, as opposed to actual examples.

Ideanoun

(obsolete) The conception of someone or something as representing a perfect example; an ideal.

Ideanoun

(obsolete) The form or shape of something; a quintessential aspect or characteristic.

Ideanoun

An image of an object that is formed in the mind or recalled by the memory.

Ideanoun

More generally, any result of mental activity; a thought, a notion; a way of thinking.

Ideanoun

A conception in the mind of something to be done; a plan for doing something, an intention.

Ideanoun

A purposeful aim or goal; intent

Ideanoun

A vague or fanciful notion; a feeling or hunch; an impression.

Ideanoun

(music) A musical theme or melodic subject.

Ideanoun

The transcript, image, or picture of a visible object, that is formed by the mind; also, a similar image of any object whatever, whether sensible or spiritual.

Ideanoun

A general notion, or a conception formed by generalization.

Ideanoun

Hence: Any object apprehended, conceived, or thought of, by the mind; a notion, conception, or thought; the real object that is conceived or thought of.

Ideanoun

A belief, option, or doctrine; a characteristic or controlling principle; as, an essential idea; the idea of development.

Ideanoun

A plan or purpose of action; intention; design.

Ideanoun

A rational conception; the complete conception of an object when thought of in all its essential elements or constituents; the necessary metaphysical or constituent attributes and relations, when conceived in the abstract.

Ideanoun

A fiction object or picture created by the imagination; the same when proposed as a pattern to be copied, or a standard to be reached; one of the archetypes or patterns of created things, conceived by the Platonists to have excited objectively from eternity in the mind of the Deity.

Ideanoun

the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about;

Ideanoun

a personal view;

Ideanoun

an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth;

Ideanoun

your intention; what you intend to do;

Ideanoun

(music) melodic subject of a musical composition;

Ideanoun

a thought or suggestion as to a possible course of action

Ideanoun

a mental impression

Ideanoun

an opinion or belief

Ideanoun

the aim or purpose

Ideanoun

(in Platonic thought) an eternally existing pattern of which individual things in any class are imperfect copies.

Ideanoun

(in Kantian thought) a concept of pure reason, not empirically based in experience.

Idea

In common usage and in philosophy, ideas are abstract concepts. Also in philosophy, ideas can also be mental representational images of some object.