[plan], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a detailed proposal for doing or achieving something
(e.g: the UN peace plan)

- an intention or decision about what one is going to do
(e.g: I have no plans to retire)

- a detailed map or diagram
(e.g: a street plan)


Phrases:
- go according to plan
- make a plan
- one's best plan
- plan of action
- sounds like a plan
- the best-laid plans of mice and men

Origin:
mid 17th century: partly from French plan ‘drawing, sketch’, from earlier plant, from planter to plant (see plant), and partly from French plan ‘plane surface’, from plan, adjective (see plane). Compare with plant

[plan], (Verb)

Definitions:
- decide on and make arrangements for in advance
(e.g: they were planning a trip to Egypt)

- design or make a plan of (something to be made or built)
(e.g: she had planned the garden from scratch)


Phrases:
- go according to plan
- make a plan
- one's best plan
- plan of action
- sounds like a plan
- the best-laid plans of mice and men

Origin:
mid 17th century: partly from French plan ‘drawing, sketch’, from earlier plant, from planter to plant (see plant), and partly from French plan ‘plane surface’, from plan, adjective (see plane). Compare with plant