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PlotPlot Plot, n. [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.) A plan or draught of a field, farm, estate, etc.,
drawn to a scale. PlotPlot Plot, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plotted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Plotting.]
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
Plot Plot, n. [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 of 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 God 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
Plot Plot, v. t.
To plan; to scheme; to devise; to contrive secretly.
``Plotting an unprofitable crime.' --Dryden. ``Plotting now
the fall of others.' --Milton
Plot
Plot Plot (pl[o^]t), 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.
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Plot or
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Plot (narrative), the
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magnitude plot, expressing...
- A
Manhattan plot is a type of
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- The
Business Plot, also
called the Wall
Street Putsch and the
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political conspiracy in 1933, in the
United States, to overthrow...
- A
plot twist is a
literary technique that
introduces a
radical change in the
direction or
expected outcome of the
plot in a work of fiction. When it happens...
- In
descriptive statistics, a box
plot or
boxplot is a
method for
demonstrating graphically the locality,
spread and
skewness groups of
numerical data through...
- The "doctors'
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