Plan vs. Sketch: What's the Difference?

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

A hasty or undetailed drawing or painting often made as a preliminary study.

A proposed or intended course of action

A brief general account or presentation; an outline.

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

A brief, light, or informal literary composition, such as an essay or a short story.

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

(Music) A brief composition, especially for the piano.

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

A short, often satirical scene or play in a revue or variety show; a skit.

A program or policy stipulating a service or benefit

(Informal) An amusing person.

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

To make a sketch of; outline.

To have as a specific aim or purpose; intend

To make a sketch.

To draw or make a graphic representation of.

(ambitransitive) To make a brief, basic drawing.

To make plans.

(transitive) To describe briefly and with very few details.

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.

A rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not intended as a finished work, often consisting of a multitude of overlapping lines.

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

A rough design, plan, or draft, as a rough draft of a book.

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 brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline.

A method; a way of procedure; a custom.

A brief, light, or unfinished dramatic, musical, or literary work or idea; especially a short, often humorous or satirical scene or play, frequently as part of a revue or variety show.

A subscription to a service.

A brief musical composition or theme, especially for the piano.

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

A brief, light, or informal literary composition, such as an essay or short story.

(transitive) To create a plan for.

(informal) An amusing person.

(intransitive) To intend.

A lookout; vigilant watch for something.

(intransitive) To make a plan.

(UK) A humorous newspaper article summarizing political events, making heavy use of metaphor, paraphrase and caricature.

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.

(category theory) A formal specification of a mathematical structure or a data type described in terms of a graph and diagrams (and cones (and cocones)) on it. It can be implemented by means of “models”, which are functors which are graph homomorphisms from the formal specification to categories such that the diagrams become commutative, the cones become limiting (i.e., products), the cocones become colimiting (i.e., sums).

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.

Sketchy, shady, questionable.

A method; a way of procedure; a custom.

An outline or general delineation of anything; a first rough or incomplete draught or plan of any design; especially, in the fine arts, such a representation of an object or scene as serves the artist's purpose by recording its chief features; also, a preliminary study for an original work.

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

To draw the outline or chief features of; to make a rought of.

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

To plan or describe by giving the principal points or ideas of.

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

To make sketches, as of landscapes.

An arrangement scheme;

Preliminary drawing for later elaboration;

Scale drawing of a structure;

A brief literary description

Have the will and intention to carry out some action;

Short descriptive summary (of events)

Make plans for something;

A humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine

Make or work out a plan for; devise;

Make a sketch of;

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

Describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of;