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Plan vs. Purvey — What's the Difference?

Plan vs. Purvey — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Plan and Purvey

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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.

Purvey

To supply or sell (food, for example).

Plan

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

Purvey

To seek to disseminate
Ideas purveyed by political extremists.

Plan

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

To prepare in advance (for or to do something); to plan, make provision.

Plan

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

Purvey

(transitive) To furnish or provide.

Plan

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

Purvey

(transitive) To procure; to get.

Plan

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

Purvey

To furnish or provide, as with a convenience, provisions, or the like.
Give no odds to your foes, but do purveyYourself of sword before that bloody day.

Plan

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

Purvey

To procure; to get.
I mean to purvey me a wife after the fashion of the children of Benjamin.

Plan

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

Purvey

To purchase provisions; to provide; to make provision.

Plan

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

Purvey

To pander; - with to.

Plan

To draw or make a graphic representation of.

Purvey

Supply with provisions

Plan

To make plans.

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.

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.

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.

Plan

A method; a way of procedure; a custom.

Plan

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

Plan

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

Plan

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

Plan

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

Plan

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

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.

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.

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.

Plan

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

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.

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

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

Plan

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

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

Plan

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

Plan

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

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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