Plan vs. Procedure

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.

Procedurenoun

A particular method for performing a task.

Procedurenoun

A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.

Procedurenoun

(uncountable) The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain task or tasks.

Procedurenoun

The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.

Procedurenoun

(obsolete) That which results; issue; product.

Procedurenoun

(computing) A subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task.

Procedurenoun

(medicine) A surgical operation.

Procedurenoun

The act or manner of proceeding or moving forward; progress; process; operation; conduct.

Procedurenoun

A step taken; an act performed; a proceeding; the steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.

Procedurenoun

That which results; issue; product.

Procedurenoun

a particular course of action intended to achieve a result;

Procedurenoun

a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program

Procedurenoun

a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings

Procedurenoun

a series of actions conducted in a certain order or manner

Procedurenoun

a surgical operation

Procedurenoun

another term for subroutine