scheme
Noun
(en noun )
A systematic plan of future action.
* Jonathan Swift
- The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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A plot or secret, devious plan.
An orderly combination of related parts.
* John Locke
- the appearance and outward scheme of things
* Atterbury
- such a scheme of things as shall at once take in time and eternity
* J. Edwards
- arguments sufficient to support and demonstrate a whole scheme of moral philosophy
* Macaulay
- The Revolution came and changed his whole scheme of life.
A chart or diagram of a system or object.
* South
- to draw an exact scheme of Constantinople, or a map of France
(mathematics) A type of topological space.
(UK, chiefly, Scotland) A council housing estate.
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- It was all too dear. They all just put their prices up because it was out in the scheme .
(rhetoric) An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.
(astrology) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
* Sir Walter Scott
- a blue case, from which was drawn a scheme of nativity
Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as http: or news:.
Usage notes
In the US, generally has devious connotations, while in the UK, frequently used as a neutral term for projects: “The road is closed due to a pavement-widening scheme.”
Synonyms
* (a systematic plan of future action) blueprint
Verb
(schem)
To plot, or contrive a plan.
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plot
English
Noun
(en noun )
The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
* Alexander Pope
- 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.
An area or land used for building on or planting on.
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.
- The plot would have enabled them to get a majority on the board.
- The assassination of Lincoln was part of a larger plot .
* Shakespeare
- I have overheard a plot of death.
* Addison
- O, think what anxious moments pass between / The birth of plots and their last fatal periods!
Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
* Denham
- a man of much plot
Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
* Milton
- And when Christ saith, Who marries the divorced commits adultery, it is to be understood, if he had any plot in the divorce.
A plan; a purpose.
* Jeremy Taylor
- no other plot in their religion but serve God and save their souls
Synonyms
* (course of a story) storyline
* (area) parcel
* (secret plan) conspiracy, scheme
Derived terms
* Gunpowder Plot
* lose the plot
* plotless
* subplot
* the plot thickens/plot thickens
Verb
(plott)
To conceive (a crime, etc).
- They had ”plotted a robbery.
To trace out (a graph or diagram).
- They ”plotted” the number of edits per day.
To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
- Every five minutes they ”plotted” their position.
* Carew
- This treatise plotteth down Cornwall as it now standeth.
To conceive a crime, misdeed, etc.
- ”They were plotting against the king.
Synonyms
* (contrive) becast
* (sense) scheme
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