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PLOT
plot, secret plan, game
(noun) a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal); “they concocted a plot to discredit the governor”; “I saw through his little game from the start”
plot
(noun) the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.; “the characters were well drawn but the plot was banal”
plot
(noun) a chart or graph showing the movements or progress of an object
plot, plot of land, plot of ground, patch
(noun) a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation; “a bean plot”; “a cabbage patch”; “a briar patch”
plot
(verb) plan secretly, usually something illegal; “They plotted the overthrow of the government”
plat, plot
(verb) make a plat of; “Plat the town”
plot
(verb) devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet); “the writer is plotting a new novel”
diagram, plot
(verb) make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
plot (plural plots)
(authorship) The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means. [from 1640s]
Synonym: storyline
An area or land used for building on or planting on. [from 1550s]
Synonym: parcel
A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable. [from 1580s]
Synonyms: conspiracy, scheme
Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
A plan; a purpose.
Verb
plot (third-person singular simple present plots, present participle plotting, simple past and past participle plotted)
(transitive) To conceive (a crime, etc).
(transitive) To trace out (a graph or diagram).
(transitive) To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
(intransitive) To conceive a crime, misdeed, etc.
Synonyms
• (contrive): becast
• (conceive a crime, etc): scheme
• (an area of land): lot
Anagrams
• OLTP, PTOL, lopt, polt
Source: Wiktionary
Plot, n. Etym: [AS. plot; cf. Goth. plats a patch. Cf. Plat a piece of ground.]
1. A small extent of ground; a plat; as, a garden plot. Shak.
2. A plantation laid out. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.
3. (Surv.)
Definition: A plan or draught of a field, farm, estate, etc., drawn to a scale.
Plot, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Plotting.]
Definition: To make a plot, map, pr plan, of; to mark the position of on a plan; to delineate. This treatise plotteth down Cornwall as it now standeth. Carew.
Plot, n. Etym: [Abbrev. from complot.]
1. Any scheme, stratagem, secret design, or plan, of a complicated nature, adapted to the accomplishment of some purpose, usually a treacherous and mischievous one; a conspiracy; an intrigue; as, the Rye-house Plot. I have overheard a plot of death. Shak. O, think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots and their last fatal periods! Addison.
2. A share in such a plot or scheme; a participation in any stratagem or conspiracy. [Obs.] And when Christ saith. Who marries the divorced commits adultery, it is to be understood, if he had any plot in the divorce. Milton.
3. Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue. [Obs.] "A man of much plot." Denham.
4. A plan; a purpose. "No other plot in their religion but serve Got and save their souls." Jer. Taylor.
5. In fiction, the story of a play, novel, romance, or poem, comprising a complication of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means. If the plot or intrigue must be natural, and such as springs from the subject, then the winding up of the plot must be a probable consequence of all that went before. Pope.
Syn.
– Intrigue; stratagem; conspiracy; cabal; combination; contrivance.
Plot, v. i.
1. To form a scheme of mischief against another, especially against a government or those who administer it; to conspire. Shak. The wicked plotteth against the just. Ps. xxxvii. 12.
2. To contrive a plan or stratagem; to scheme. The prince did plot to be secretly gone. Sir H. Wotton.
Plot, v. t.
Definition: To plan; to scheme; to devise; to contrive secretly. "Plotting an unprofitable crime." Dryden. "Plotting now the fall of others." Milton
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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