Plot vs. Scheme

Plotnoun

(authorship) The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.

Plotnoun

An area or land used for building on or planting on.

Plotnoun

A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.

Plotnoun

A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable.

Plotnoun

Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.

Plotnoun

Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.

Plotnoun

A plan; a purpose.

Plotverb

(transitive) To conceive (a crime, etc).

Plotverb

(transitive) To trace out (a graph or diagram).

Plotverb

(transitive) To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).

Plotverb

(intransitive) To conceive a crime, misdeed, etc.

Plotnoun

A small extent of ground; a plat; as, a garden plot.

Plotnoun

A plantation laid out.

Plotnoun

A plan or draught of a field, farm, estate, etc., drawn to a scale.

Plotnoun

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.

Plotnoun

A share in such a plot or scheme; a participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.

Plotnoun

Contrivance; deep reach of thought; ability to plot or intrigue.

Plotnoun

A plan; a purpose.

Plotnoun

In fiction, the story of a play, novel, romance, or poem, comprising a complication of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.

Plotverb

To make a plot, map, pr plan, of; to mark the position of on a plan; to delineate.

Plotverb

To form a scheme of mischief against another, especially against a government or those who administer it; to conspire.

Plotverb

To contrive a plan or stratagem; to scheme.

Plotverb

To plan; to scheme; to devise; to contrive secretly.

Plotnoun

a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal);

Plotnoun

a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation;

Plotnoun

the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.;

Plotnoun

a chart or map showing the movements or progress of an object

Plotverb

plan secretly, usually something illegal;

Plotverb

make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows how things work or how they are constructed

Plotverb

make a plat of;

Plotnoun

a plan made in secret by a group of people to do something illegal or harmful

Plotnoun

the main events of a play, novel, film, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence

Plotnoun

a small piece of ground marked out for a purpose such as building or gardening

Plotnoun

a graph showing the relation between two variables.

Plotnoun

a diagram, chart, or map.

Plotverb

secretly make plans to carry out (an illegal or harmful action)

Plotverb

devise the sequence of events in (a play, novel, film, or similar work)

Plotverb

mark (a route or position) on a chart

Plotverb

mark out or allocate (points) on a graph

Plotverb

make (a curve) by marking out a number of points on a graph

Plotverb

illustrate by use of a graph

Schemenoun

A systematic plan of future action.

Schemenoun

A plot or secret, devious plan.

Schemenoun

An orderly combination of related parts.

Schemenoun

A chart or diagram of a system or object.

Schemenoun

(mathematics) A type of topological space.

Schemenoun

A council housing estate.

Schemenoun

(rhetoric) An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.

Schemenoun

(astrology) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.

Schemenoun

(internet) Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as http: or news:.

Schemenoun

A portfolio of pension plans with related benefits comprising multiple independent members.

Schemeverb

(intransitive) To plot, or contrive a plan.

Schemenoun

A combination of things connected and adjusted by design; a system.

Schemenoun

A plan or theory something to be done; a design; a project; as, to form a scheme.

Schemenoun

Any lineal or mathematical diagram; an outline.

Schemenoun

A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.

Schemeverb

To make a scheme of; to plan; to design; to project; to plot.

Schemeverb

To form a scheme or schemes.

Schemenoun

an elaborate and systematic plan of action

Schemenoun

a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery

Schemenoun

a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole;

Schemenoun

an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world

Schemenoun

a schematic or preliminary plan

Schemeverb

form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner

Schemeverb

devise a system or form a scheme for