Plan vs. System — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Plan and System
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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.
System
A system is a group of interacting or interrelated elements that act according to a set of rules to form a unified whole. A system, surrounded and influenced by its environment, is described by its boundaries, structure and purpose and expressed in its functioning.
Plan
An orderly or step-by-step conception or proposal for accomplishing an objective
A plan for improving math instruction.
System
A set of things working together as parts of a mechanism or an interconnecting network; a complex whole
The state railway system
Fluid is pushed through a system of pipes or channels
Plan
A proposed or intended course of action
Had no plans for the evening.
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System
A set of principles or procedures according to which something is done; an organized scheme or method
The public-school system
A multiparty system of government
Plan
A systematic arrangement of elements or important parts; a configuration or outline
A seating plan.
The plan of a story.
System
The prevailing political or social order, especially when regarded as oppressive and intransigent
Don't try bucking the system
Plan
A drawing or diagram made to scale showing the structure or arrangement of something.
System
A set of staves in a musical score joined by a brace.
Plan
In perspective rendering, one of several imaginary planes perpendicular to the line of vision between the viewer and the object being depicted.
System
An organism as a whole, especially with regard to its vital processes or functions
The animal's entire system seems to be affected by the disease.
Plan
A program or policy stipulating a service or benefit
A pension plan.
System
A group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts
The excretory system.
A root system.
Plan
To formulate a scheme or program for the accomplishment, enactment, or attainment of
Plan a campaign.
System
A group of interacting mechanical or electrical components
The building's heating system.
Plan
To have as a specific aim or purpose; intend
They plan to buy a house.
System
A network of structures and channels, as for communication, travel, or distribution
A highway system.
Plan
To draw or make a graphic representation of.
System
A network of related computer software, hardware, and data transmission devices.
Plan
To make plans.
System
An organized set of interrelated ideas or principles
Kant's philosophical system.
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.
System
A social, economic, or political organizational form
The feudal system.
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.
System
An arrangement or configuration of classification or measurement
The taxonomic system.
The metric system.
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.
System
An organized and coordinated method; a procedure
We have an efficient system for processing returned merchandise.
Plan
A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
System
A naturally occurring group of objects or phenomena
A cave system.
A weather system.
Plan
A subscription to a service.
A phone plan
An Internet plan
System
(Geology) A set of rock strata grouped by geologic time period and divided into series.
Plan
(transitive) To design (a building, machine, etc.).
The architect planned the building for the client.
System
Harmonious interaction or order
A restaurant kitchen that was completely without system.
Plan
(transitive) To create a plan for.
They jointly planned the project in phases, with good detail for the first month.
System
The prevailing social order; the establishment. Used with the
You can't beat the system.
Plan
(intransitive) To intend.
He planned to go, but work intervened.
System
A collection of organized things; a whole composed of relationships among its members.
There are eight planets in the solar system.
Plan
(intransitive) To make a plan.
They planned for the worst, bringing lots of emergency supplies.
System
(derogatory) Preceded by the word the: the mainstream culture, controlled by the elites or government of a state, or a combination of them, seen as oppressive to the individual.
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.
System
(computing) A set of hardware and software operating in a computer.
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.
System
(mathematics) A set of equations involving the same variables, which are to be solved simultaneously.
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.
System
(music) A set of staves linked by a brace that indicate instruments or sounds that are to be played simultaneously.
Plan
To form a delineation of; to draught; to represent, as by a diagram.
System
(physiology) A set of body organs having a particular function.
The digestive system
The nervous system
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.
System
(psychiatry) A set of alters, or the multiple personalities]] due to, for example, a dissociative personality disorder who contains them.
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
System
(astronomy) A planetary system; a set of planets orbiting a star or star system
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
System
(philosophy) A comprehensive and logically organized set of propositions or philosophical beliefs.
Plan
Scale drawing of a structure;
The plans for City Hall were on file
System
(RPG) A set of rules for a tabletop roleplaying game.
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
System
A method or way of organizing or planning.
Followers should have a system to follow that works in their interests, not against them.
Plan
Make plans for something;
He is planning a trip with his family
System
An assemblage of objects arranged in regular subordination, or after some distinct method, usually logical or scientific; a complete whole of objects related by some common law, principle, or end; a complete exhibition of essential principles or facts, arranged in a rational dependence or connection; a regular union of principles or parts forming one entire thing; as, a system of philosophy; a system of government; a system of divinity; a system of botany or chemistry; a military system; the solar system.
The best way to learn any science, is to begin with a regular system, or a short and plain scheme of that science well drawn up into a narrow compass.
Plan
Make or work out a plan for; devise;
They contrived to murder their boss
Design a new sales strategy
Plan an attack
System
Hence, the whole scheme of created things regarded as forming one complete plan of whole; the universe.
Plan
Make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form;
Design a better mousetrap
Plan the new wing of the museum
System
Regular method or order; formal arrangement; plan; as, to have a system in one's business.
System
An assemblage of parts or organs, either in animal or plant, essential to the performance of some particular function or functions which as a rule are of greater complexity than those manifested by a single organ; as, the capillary system, the muscular system, the digestive system, etc.; hence, the whole body as a functional unity.
System
One of the stellate or irregular clusters of intimately united zooids which are imbedded in, or scattered over, the surface of the common tissue of many compound ascidians.
System
A group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole;
A vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going
System
Instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity;
He bought a new stereo system
The system consists of a motor and a small computer
System
A complex of methods or rules governing behavior;
They have to operate under a system they oppose
That language has a complex system for indicating gender
System
A procedure or process for obtaining an objective;
They had to devise a system that did not depend on cooperation
System
A group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts;
The body has a system of organs for digestion
System
An organized structure for arranging or classifying;
He changed the arrangement of the topics
The facts were familiar but it was in the organization of them that he was original
He tried to understand their system of classification
System
(physical chemistry) a sample of matter in which substances in different phases are in equilibrium;
In a static system oil cannot be replaced by water on a surface
A system generating hydrogen peroxide
System
The living body considered as made up of interdependent components forming a unified whole;
Exercise helped him get the alcohol out of his system
System
An ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized;
His compulsive organization was not an endearing quality
We can't do it unless we establish some system around here
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