Picture vs. Plan — What's the Difference?

A visual representation or image painted, drawn, photographed, or otherwise rendered on a flat surface.

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.

A person or object bearing a marked resemblance to another

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

A visible image, especially one on a flat surface or screen

A proposed or intended course of action

A vivid or realistic verbal description

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

A vivid mental image.

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

A person, object, or scene that typifies or embodies an emotion, state of mind, or mood

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

The chief circumstances of an event or time; the situation

A program or policy stipulating a service or benefit

A movie.

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

A tableau vivant.

To have as a specific aim or purpose; intend

To make a visible representation of

To draw or make a graphic representation of.

To form a mental image of; visualize

To make plans.

To describe vividly in words; make a verbal picture of

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.

A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.

A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.

An image; a representation as in the imagination.

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.

A painting.

A method; a way of procedure; a custom.

A photograph.

A subscription to a service.

A motion picture.

(transitive) To design (a building, machine, etc.).

Cinema as a form of entertainment.

(transitive) To create a plan for.

A paragon, a perfect example or specimen (of a category).

(intransitive) To intend.

An attractive sight.

(intransitive) To make a plan.

The art of painting; representation by painting.

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.

A figure; a model.

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.

Situation.

A method; a way of procedure; a custom.

(MLE) A sample of an illegal drug.

To form a delineation of; to draught; to represent, as by a diagram.

(programming) A format string in the COBOL programming language.

To scheme; to devise; to contrive; to form in design; as, to plan the conquest of a country.

(transitive) To represent in or with a picture.

A series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished;

(transitive) To imagine or envision.

An arrangement scheme;

(transitive) To depict or describe vividly.

Scale drawing of a structure;

The art of painting; representation by painting.

Have the will and intention to carry out some action;

A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, produced by means of painting, drawing, engraving, photography, etc.; a representation in colors. By extension, a figure; a model.

Make plans for something;

An image or resemblance; a representation, either to the eye or to the mind; that which, by its likeness, brings vividly to mind some other thing; as, a child is the picture of his father; the man is the picture of grief.

Make or work out a plan for; devise;

To draw or paint a resemblance of; to delineate; to represent; to form or present an ideal likeness of; to bring before the mind.

Make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form;

A visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface;

Graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface;

A clear and telling mental image;

A situation treated as an observable object;

Illustrations used to decorate or explain a text;

A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement;

The visible part of a television transmission;

A graphic or vivid verbal description;

A typical example of some state or quality;

Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind;

Show in, or as in, a picture;