Prepare vs. Plan — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Prepare and Plan
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Definitions
Prepare➦
To make ready beforehand for a specific purpose, as for an event or occasion
The teacher prepared the students for the exams.
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.
Prepare➦
To put together or make by combining various elements or ingredients; manufacture or compound
Prepared a meal.
Prepared the lecture.
Plan➦
An orderly or step-by-step conception or proposal for accomplishing an objective
A plan for improving math instruction.
Prepare➦
To fit out; equip
Prepared the ship for an arctic expedition.
Plan➦
A proposed or intended course of action
Had no plans for the evening.
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Prepare➦
(Music) To lead up to and soften (a dissonance or its impact) by means of preparation.
Plan➦
A systematic arrangement of elements or important parts; a configuration or outline
A seating plan.
The plan of a story.
Prepare➦
To make things or oneself ready
I must prepare for my trip.
Plan➦
A drawing or diagram made to scale showing the structure or arrangement of something.
Prepare➦
(transitive) To make ready for a specific future purpose; to set up; to assemble or equip.
We prepared the spacecraft for takeoff.
Plan➦
In perspective rendering, one of several imaginary planes perpendicular to the line of vision between the viewer and the object being depicted.
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Prepare➦
(transitive) To make ready for eating or drinking; to cook.
We prepared a fish for dinner.
Plan➦
A program or policy stipulating a service or benefit
A pension plan.
Prepare➦
(intransitive) To make oneself ready; to get ready, make preparation.
We prepared for a bumpy ride.
Plan➦
To formulate a scheme or program for the accomplishment, enactment, or attainment of
Plan a campaign.
Prepare➦
(transitive) To produce or make by combining elements; to synthesize, compound.
She prepared a meal from what was left in the cupboards.
Plan➦
To have as a specific aim or purpose; intend
They plan to buy a house.
Prepare➦
(obsolete) preparation
Plan➦
To draw or make a graphic representation of.
Prepare➦
To fit, adapt, or qualify for a particular purpose or condition; to make ready; to put into a state for use or application; as, to prepare ground for seed; to prepare a lesson.
Our souls, not yet prepared for upper light.
Plan➦
To make plans.
Prepare➦
To procure as suitable or necessary; to get ready; to provide; as, to prepare ammunition and provisions for troops; to prepare ships for defence; to prepare an entertainment.
That they may prepare a city for habitation.
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.
Prepare➦
To make all things ready; to put things in order; as, to prepare for a hostile invasion.
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.
Prepare➦
To make one's self ready; to get ready; to take the necessary previous measures; as, to prepare for death.
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.
Prepare➦
Preparation.
Plan➦
A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
Prepare➦
Make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc;
Get the children ready for school!
Prepare for war
I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill
Plan➦
A subscription to a service.
A phone plan
An Internet plan
Prepare➦
Prepare for eating by applying heat;
Cook me dinner, please
Can you make me an omelette?
Fix breakfast for the guests, please
Plan➦
(transitive) To design (a building, machine, etc.).
The architect planned the building for the client.
Prepare➦
To prepare verbally, either for written or spoken delivery;
Prepare a report
Prepare a speech
Plan➦
(transitive) To create a plan for.
They jointly planned the project in phases, with good detail for the first month.
Prepare➦
Arrange by systematic planning and united effort;
Machinate a plot
Organize a strike
Devise a plan to take over the director's office
Plan➦
(intransitive) To intend.
He planned to go, but work intervened.
Prepare➦
Prepare (someone) for a future role or function;
He is grooming his son to become his successor
The prince was prepared to become King one day
They trained him to be a warrior
Plan➦
(intransitive) To make a plan.
They planned for the worst, bringing lots of emergency supplies.
Prepare➦
Create by training and teaching;
The old master is training world-class violinists
We develop the leaders for the future
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.
Prepare➦
Lead up to and soften by sounding the dissonant note in it as a consonant note in the preceding chord;
Prepare the discord in bar 139
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.
Prepare➦
Undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession;
She is training to be a teacher
He trained as a legal aid
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
