Development vs. Planning — What's the Difference?

The process of developing or being developed

Planning is the process of thinking about the activities required to achieve a desired goal. It is the first and foremost activity to achieve desired results.

An event constituting a new stage in a changing situation

The process of making plans for something

The process of converting land to a new purpose by constructing buildings or making use of its resources

An orderly or step-by-step conception or proposal for accomplishing an objective

The process of starting to be affected by an ailment or feeling

A proposed or intended course of action

The process of treating photographic film with chemicals to make a visible image

A systematic arrangement of elements or important parts; a configuration or outline

The process of bringing one's pieces into play in the opening phase of a game

A drawing or diagram made to scale showing the structure or arrangement of something.

The application of techniques or technology to the production of new goods or services.

In perspective rendering, one of several imaginary planes perpendicular to the line of vision between the viewer and the object being depicted.

The business of constructing buildings or otherwise altering land for new uses.

A program or policy stipulating a service or benefit

A significant event, occurrence, or change

To formulate a scheme or program for the accomplishment, enactment, or attainment of

A group of dwellings built by the same contractor

To have as a specific aim or purpose; intend

The organized activity of soliciting donations or grants; fundraising.

To draw or make a graphic representation of.

Elaboration of a theme with rhythmic and harmonic variations.

To make plans.

The central section of a movement in sonata form, in which the theme is elaborated and explored.

Present participle of plan

(uncountable) The process of developing; growth, directed change.

(uncountable) Action of the verb to plan.

The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is produced by the addition of new cells.

The act of formulating of a course of action, or of drawing up plans.

(countable) Something which has developed.

The act of making contingency plans.

A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings.

Planning permission.

The building of such a project.

An act of formulating a program for a definite course of action;

(uncountable) The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf. research).

The act or process of drawing up plans or layouts for some project or enterprise

The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it.

The cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening;

(music) The process by in which previous material is transformed and restated.

(music) The second section of a piece of music in sonata form, in which the original theme is revisited in altered and varying form.

(math) The expression of a function in the form of a series.

The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or method, or an image upon a photographic plate; gradual advancement or growth through a series of progressive changes; also, the result of developing, or a developed state.

The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization.

The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another of equivalent value or meaning.

The elaboration of a theme or subject; the unfolding of a musical idea; the evolution of a whole piece or movement from a leading theme or motive.

A tract of land on which a number of buildings have been constructed; - especially used for tract on which from two to hundreds of houses have been constructed by a commercial developer{4} for sale to individuals.

Act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining;

A process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage);

A recent event that has some relevance for the present situation;

The act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful;

A district that has been developed to serve some purpose;

A state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess);

(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level;

Processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible;