Scheme vs. Plot
Scheme and Plot Definitions
Scheme
A systematic plan of action
"Did you ever carry out your scheme of writing a series of sonnets embodying all the great epochs of art?" (Edith Wharton).
Plot
A small piece of ground, generally used for a specific purpose
A garden plot.
Scheme
A secret or devious plan; a plot
A scheme to defraud investors.
Plot
A measured area of land; a lot.
Scheme
An orderly plan or arrangement of related parts
An irrigation scheme with dams, reservoirs, and channels.
Plot
A ground plan, as for a building; a diagram.
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Scheme
A chart, diagram, or outline of a system or object.
Plot
See graph1.
Scheme
To contrive a plan or scheme for; plot
Scheming their revenge.
Plot
The pattern or sequence of interrelated events in a work of fiction, as a novel or film.
Scheme
To make plans, especially secret or devious ones.
Plot
A secret plan to accomplish a hostile or illegal purpose; a scheme.
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Scheme
An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.
Plot
To represent graphically, as on a chart
Plot a ship's course.
Scheme
(astrology) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
Plot
To locate (points or other figures) on a graph by means of coordinates.
Scheme
A systematic plan of future action.
Plot
To draw (a curve) connecting points on a graph.
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Scheme
A plot or secret, devious plan.
Plot
To write or develop the plot of
"I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read" (James Baldwin).
Scheme
An orderly combination of related parts.
Plot
To form a plot for; prearrange secretly or deviously
Plot an assassination.
Scheme
A chart or diagram of a system or object.
Plot
To form or take part in a plot; scheme
Were plotting for months before the attack.
Scheme
(mathematics) A mathematical structure that enlarges the notion of algebraic variety in several ways, such as taking account of multiplicities and allowing "varieties" defined over any commutative ring (e.g. Fermat curves over the integers).
Plot
To write or develop the plot for a work of fiction
A good mystery writer must plot well.
Scheme
A council housing estate.
Plot
(narratology) The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
Scheme
(internet) Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as
http: or news:.Plot
An area or land used for building on or planting on.
Scheme
A portfolio of pension plans with related benefits comprising multiple independent members.
Plot
A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
Scheme
(intransitive) To plot, or contrive a plan.
Plot
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.
Scheme
(transitive) To plan; to contrive.
Plot
Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
Scheme
A combination of things connected and adjusted by design; a system.
The appearance and outward scheme of things.
Such a scheme of things as shall at once take in time and eternity.
Arguments . . . sufficient to support and demonstrate a whole scheme of moral philosophy.
The Revolution came and changed his whole scheme of life.
Plot
Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
Scheme
A plan or theory something to be done; a design; a project; as, to form a scheme.
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
Plot
A plan; a purpose.
Scheme
Any lineal or mathematical diagram; an outline.
To draw an exact scheme of Constantinople, or a map of France.
Plot
Attractive physical attributes of characters involved in a story, originating from ironic juxtaposition with the original meaning (course of the story).
I'm not sure what's happening in that show, I mainly watch it for the plot.
Scheme
A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
A blue silk case, from which was drawn a scheme of nativity.
He forms the well-concerted scheme of mischief;'T is fixed, 't is done, and both are doomed to death.
Artists and plans relieved my solemn hours;I founded palaces, and planted bowers.
Plot
To conceive (a crime, misdeed etc).
They had plotted a robbery.
They were plotting against the king.
Scheme
To make a scheme of; to plan; to design; to project; to plot.
That wickedness which schemed, and executed, his destruction.
Plot
(transitive) To trace out (a graph or diagram).
They plotted the number of edits per day.
Scheme
To form a scheme or schemes.
Plot
(transitive) To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
Every five minutes they plotted their position.
Scheme
An elaborate and systematic plan of action
Plot
A small extent of ground; a plat; as, a garden plot.
Scheme
A statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
Plot
A plantation laid out.
Scheme
A group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole;
A vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going
Plot
A plan or draught of a field, farm, estate, etc., drawn to a scale.
Scheme
An internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world
Plot
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.
O, think what anxious moments pass betweenThe birth of plots and their last fatal periods!
Scheme
A schematic or preliminary plan
Plot
A share in such a plot or scheme; a participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
And when Christ saith, Who marries the divorced commits adultery, it is to be understood, if he had any plot in the divorce.
Scheme
Form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner
Plot
Contrivance; deep reach of thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
Scheme
Devise a system or form a scheme for
Plot
A plan; a purpose.
Plot
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.
Plot
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.
Plot
To form a scheme of mischief against another, especially against a government or those who administer it; to conspire.
The wicked plotteth against the just.
Plot
To contrive a plan or stratagem; to scheme.
The prince did plot to be secretly gone.
Plot
To plan; to scheme; to devise; to contrive secretly.
Plot
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
A small area of ground covered by specific vegetation;
A bean plot
A cabbage patch
A briar patch
Plot
The story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.;
The characters were well drawn but the plot was banal
Plot
A chart or map showing the movements or progress of an object
Plot
Plan secretly, usually something illegal;
They plotted the overthrow fo the government
Plot
Make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows how things work or how they are constructed
Plot
Make a plat of;
Plat the town
