Plan vs. Plant — What's the Difference?

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.

Plants are mainly multicellular organisms, predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, plants were treated as one of two kingdoms including all living things that were not animals, and all algae and fungi were treated as plants.

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

A living organism of the kind exemplified by trees, shrubs, herbs, grasses, ferns, and mosses, typically growing in a permanent site, absorbing water and inorganic substances through its roots, and synthesizing nutrients in its leaves by photosynthesis using the green pigment chlorophyll.

A proposed or intended course of action

A place where an industrial or manufacturing process takes place

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

A person placed in a group as a spy or informer

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

A shot in which the cue ball is made to strike one of two touching or nearly touching balls with the result that the second is potted.

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

Put (a seed, bulb, or plant) in the ground so that it can grow

A program or policy stipulating a service or benefit

Set or place in a particular position

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

Any of various photosynthetic, eukaryotic, multicellular organisms of the kingdom Plantae characteristically containing chloroplasts, having cell walls made of cellulose, producing embryos, and lacking the power of locomotion. Plants include trees, bushes, herbs, ferns, mosses, and certain green algae.

To have as a specific aim or purpose; intend

A plant having no permanent woody stem; an herb.

To draw or make a graphic representation of.

Any of various fungi, algae, or protists that resemble plants and were formerly classified in the plant kingdom. Not in scientific use.

To make plans.

A building or group of buildings for the manufacture of a product; a factory

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.

The buildings, fixtures, and equipment, including machinery, tools, and instruments, necessary for an industrial operation or an institution

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

A person placed in a group of spectators to influence behavior.

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 person stationed in a given location as a spy or observer.

A method; a way of procedure; a custom.

A misleading piece of evidence placed so as to be discovered.

A subscription to a service.

A remark or action in a play or narrative that becomes important later.

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

(Slang) A scheming trick; a swindle.

(transitive) To create a plan for.

To place or set (seeds, for example) in the ground to grow.

(intransitive) To intend.

To place seeds or young plants in (land); sow

(intransitive) To make a plan.

To place (spawn or young fish) in water or an underwater bed for cultivation

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.

To stock with spawn or fish.

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.

To introduce (an animal) into an area.

A method; a way of procedure; a custom.

To place or fix in a certain position

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

To deliver (a punch or blow).

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

To fix firmly in the mind; implant

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

To establish; found

An arrangement scheme;

To station (a person) for the purpose of functioning in secret, as by observing, spying, or influencing behavior

Scale drawing of a structure;

To place secretly or deceptively so as to be discovered or made public

Have the will and intention to carry out some action;

To conceal; hide

Make plans for something;

(botany) An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.

Make or work out a plan for; devise;

(botany) An organism of the kingdom Plantae; now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism.

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

(ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.

Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.

A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.

An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.

Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).

A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.

(snooker) A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.

(uncountable) Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.

(obsolete) A young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.

(obsolete) The sole of the foot.

A plan; a swindle; a trick.

An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.

A young oyster suitable for transplanting.

(control theory) The combination of process and actuator.

(ambitransitive) To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.

(transitive) To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.

(transitive) To place or set something firmly or with conviction.

To place in the ground.

To furnish or supply with plants.

To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.

To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.

To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.

To set up; to install; to instate.

A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though consisting sometimes only of a single leafy expansion, or a series of cellules, or even a single cellule.

A bush, or young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.

The sole of the foot.

The whole machinery and apparatus employed in carrying on a trade or mechanical business; also, sometimes including real estate, and whatever represents investment of capital in the means of carrying on a business, but not including material worked upon or finished products; as, the plant of a foundry, a mill, or a railroad.

A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick.

An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.

To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maize.

To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a vegetable with roots.

To furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest.

To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.

To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony.

To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of; as, to plant Christianity among the heathen.

To set firmly; to fix; to set and direct, or point; as, to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a standard in any place; to plant one's feet on solid ground; to plant one's fist in another's face.

To set up; to install; to instate.

To perform the act of planting.

Buildings for carrying on industrial labor;

A living organism lacking the power of locomotion

Something planted secretly for discovery by another;

An actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience

Put or set (seeds or seedlings) into the ground;

Fix or set securely or deeply;

Set up or lay the groundwork for;

Place into a river;

Place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive;

Put firmly in the mind;