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Plan vs. Protocol — What's the Difference?

Plan vs. Protocol — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Plan and Protocol

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Plan

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.

Protocol

A code of correct conduct
Safety protocols.
Academic protocol.

Plan

An orderly or step-by-step conception or proposal for accomplishing an objective
A plan for improving math instruction.

Protocol

The official procedure or system of rules governing affairs of state or diplomatic occasions
Protocol forbids the prince from making any public statement in his defence

Plan

A proposed or intended course of action
Had no plans for the evening.
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Protocol

The original draft of a diplomatic document, especially of the terms of a treaty agreed to in conference and signed by the parties
Hungary and the Soviet Union signed a trade protocol
Signatories to the Montreal Protocol

Plan

A systematic arrangement of elements or important parts; a configuration or outline
A seating plan.
The plan of a story.

Protocol

A formal or official record of scientific experimental observations
Protocols of published cases frequently lack this vital information

Plan

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

Protocol

A set of rules governing the exchange or transmission of data between devices.

Plan

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

Protocol

The forms of ceremony and etiquette observed by diplomats and heads of state.

Plan

A program or policy stipulating a service or benefit
A pension plan.

Protocol

The first copy of a treaty or other such document before its ratification.

Plan

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

Protocol

A preliminary draft or record of a transaction.

Plan

To have as a specific aim or purpose; intend
They plan to buy a house.

Protocol

The plan for a course of medical treatment or for a scientific experiment.

Plan

To draw or make a graphic representation of.

Protocol

(Computers) A standard procedure for regulating data transmission between computers.

Plan

To make plans.

Protocol

To form or issue protocols.

Plan

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 plans for many important buildings were once publicly available.

Protocol

The minutes, or official record, of a negotiation or transaction; especially a document drawn up officially which forms the legal basis for subsequent agreements based on it.

Plan

A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.
He didn't really have a plan; he had a goal and a habit of control.

Protocol

An official record of a diplomatic meeting or negotiation; later specifically, a draft document setting out agreements to be signed into force by a subsequent formal treaty.

Plan

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.
Seen in plan, the building had numerous passageways not apparent to visitors.

Protocol

(international law) An amendment to an official treaty.

Plan

A method; a way of procedure; a custom.

Protocol

The first leaf of a roll of papyrus, or the official mark typically found on such a page.

Plan

A subscription to a service.
A phone plan
An Internet plan

Protocol

The official formulas which appeared at the beginning or end of certain official documents such as charters, papal bulls etc.

Plan

(transitive) To design (a building, machine, etc.).
The architect planned the building for the client.

Protocol

(sciences) The original notes of observations made during an experiment; also, the precise method for carrying out or reproducing a given experiment.

Plan

(transitive) To create a plan for.
They jointly planned the project in phases, with good detail for the first month.

Protocol

The official rules and guidelines for heads of state and other dignitaries, governing accepted behaviour in relations with other diplomatic representatives or over affairs of state.

Plan

(intransitive) To intend.
He planned to go, but work intervened.

Protocol

An accepted code of conduct; acceptable behaviour in a given situation or group.

Plan

(intransitive) To make a plan.
They planned for the worst, bringing lots of emergency supplies.

Protocol

(computing) A set of formal rules describing how to transmit or exchange data, especially across a network.

Plan

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.

Protocol

(medicine) The set of instructions allowing a licensed medical professional to start, modify, or stop a medical or patient care order.

Plan

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.
God's plans like lines pure and white unfold.

Protocol

To make a protocol of.

Plan

A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
The simple plan,That they should take who have the power,And they should keep who can.

Protocol

To make or write protocols, or first drafts; to issue protocols.

Plan

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

Protocol

The original copy of any writing, as of a deed, treaty, dispatch, or other instrument.

Plan

To scheme; to devise; to contrive; to form in design; as, to plan the conquest of a country.
Even in penance, planning sins anew.

Protocol

The minutes, or rough draught, of an instrument or transaction.

Plan

A series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished;
They drew up a six-step plan
They discussed plans for a new bond issue

Protocol

A preliminary document upon the basis of which negotiations are carried on.

Plan

An arrangement scheme;
The awkward design of the keyboard made operation difficult
It was an excellent design for living
A plan for seating guests

Protocol

To make a protocol of.

Plan

Scale drawing of a structure;
The plans for City Hall were on file

Protocol

To make or write protocols, or first draughts; to issue protocols.

Plan

Have the will and intention to carry out some action;
He plans to be in graduate school next year
The rebels had planned turmoil and confusion

Protocol

(computer science) rules determining the format and transmission of data

Plan

Make plans for something;
He is planning a trip with his family

Protocol

Forms of ceremony and etiquette observed by diplomats and heads of state

Plan

Make or work out a plan for; devise;
They contrived to murder their boss
Design a new sales strategy
Plan an attack

Protocol

Code of correct conduct;
Safety protocols
Academic protocol

Plan

Make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form;
Design a better mousetrap
Plan the new wing of the museum

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