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Meantolearn Posted 21 years ago
Vocabulary

Naming

0 When housing developers build new houses, they will give each 01b00plan02b00 a name such as Birch, Spuce, Elm, Maple, Mahogany, Cedar, Alder. All these are related to trees. 02br
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00Others such as Arezzo, Siena, Firenze, Pisa. related to cities. Or something like Atlantic, Mediterranean, Monterey, Santa Cruz, Sawara -- probably related to style. 02br
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001. Does 01b00plan02b00 a short form for floor plan? 02br
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002. Does the naming (each name of a plan) has a special meaning? 02br
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0 Hi, 02br 00No, I'd say 'plan' relates to the overall design of the house, both interior and exterior. 02br 02br 00The names are just chosen to appeal and to sound nice to the prospective purchasers. 02br 02br 00Best wishes, 02br 00Clive 0-

— Clive

  • 0 Hi, 02br 00No, I'd say 'plan' relates to the overall design of the house, both interior and exterior.
  • 02br 02br 00The names are just chosen to appeal and to sound nice to the prospective purchasers.
  • 02br 02br 00Best wishes, 02br 00Clive 0-
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0 Hi, 02br
00No, I'd say 'plan' relates to the overall design of the house, both interior and exterior. 02br
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00The names are just chosen to appeal and to sound nice to the prospective purchasers. 02br
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00Best wishes, 02br
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0 The plan is the abstract and proportional presentation of the house as seen looking straight down on it. It shows where the rooms are in relation to one another. 02br
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00It is used in contrast to the term "elevation", which is a presentation of a single wall of a single room in the same abstract way, but sometimes showing how the wall might be decorated, e.g., with cur
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0 Hi all, 02br
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00Q1, I think 'plan' means floor plan. It is technical, so most native speakers don't know what it really means. Instead, they think 'plan' means the design of the house in general. 02br
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00In descriptive geometry, this is so called 'TOP VIEW' of an object. (seeing it from the top) It is two-dimensional. 02br
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0 Hi, 02br
00Yes, it's this more general use of the word 'plan' that I was thinking of, because the original post referred to names like 'Elm', 'Siena', etc. and I think these would be applied to such a general plan rather than just a floor-plan. 02br
00In other words, it's a question of marketing. Perhaps an alternative word might be a 'model'? 02br
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