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
plotting
present participle of plot
plotting (countable and uncountable, plural plottings)
The act of scheming or making plots; machination.
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
6 May 2025
(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”
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