English Dictionary

ground-plan

noun

(theater) A diagram showing set layout. / Floorplan. / Framework or pattern. / Hypothetical ancestor of a clade.

The stage manager handed me the ground-plan for the upcoming play.

意味（1）

(theater) A diagram showing set layout.

Complex shows may require more than one ground-plan; one for each set-change is common.

意味（2）

Floorplan.

It was a castellated mansion as regular as a chessboard on its ground-plan, ornamented with makebelieve bastions and machicolations, behind which were stacks of battlemented chimneys.

意味（3）

Framework or pattern.

What this book has sought to do is to lay out the ground-plan and describe the most salient features of what may come to be a new school of economic thought, which has here been called 'living economics'.

意味（4）

Hypothetical ancestor of a clade.

The ground-plan of the Chilognatha thus is a reconstruction of the species from which all chilognathan millipedes have descended— the ancestral chilognathan.