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plāns

Pronunciation: [ˈplāːns]

“plāns” is a Latvian word. Its 18 meanings in English:

noun

  1. plan, map, blueprint, layout (a detailed drawing or scheme of an object, a building, a territory)
  2. plan, map (a drawing indicating the path of a movement, its direction, order, etc.)
  3. plan (a future event worked out in detail; the corresponding text or document)
  4. plan (intention, idea, thoughts about the future realization of some course of action)
  5. plan (concise sequential formulation of the structure of a text)
  6. plane (view from a certain standpoint, as a certain sphere of expression)
  7. plane (location of an object or a part of it, depending on the viewer's vantage point)
  8. plane (the frame at which a scene is filmed)
  9. plane (level of importance)
  10. barn floor, threshing floor (syn. klons)

adjective

  1. thin (having a small cross section)
  2. thin (with a small cross section; not thick, not dense, light, translucid)
  3. thin (such that its component parts are far from each other; syn. rets)
  4. thin (not very nutritious, lean, rather liquid in consistency)
  5. thin (not dense, not opaque)
  6. thin, weak
  7. thin, poor
  8. incomplete, weak

Etymology

Borrowed from German Plan, which is itself a borrowing from French plan, from Latin planta (“sole of foot”), which is ultimately from the same stem as the adjective plāns (“thin”) below. This borrowing is first mentioned in 19th-century dictionaries.

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