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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Plot \Plot\, noun [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Plot \Plot\, verb (used with an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Plot \Plot\, noun [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Plot \Plot\ (pl[o^]t), verb (used without an object)
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Plot \Plot\, verb (used with an object) To plan; to scheme; to devise; to contrive secretly. ''Plotting an unprofitable crime.'' --Dryden. ''Plotting now the fall of others.'' --Milton
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
plot
noun
1: 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" [syn: {secret plan}, {game}]
2: a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation; "a bean plot"; "a cabbage patch"; "a briar patch" [syn: {plot of ground}, {patch}]
3: the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.; "the characters were well drawn but the plot was banal"
4: a chart or map showing the movements or progress of an object
verb
1: plan secretly, usually something illegal; "They plotted the overthrow fo the government"
2: make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows how things work or how they are constructed [syn: {diagram}]
3: make a plat of; "Plat the town" [syn: {plat}] [also: {plotting}, {plotted}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
282 Moby Thesaurus words for "plot": acreage, acres, action, allotment, anagnorisis, angle, anticipate, approach, architectonics, architecture, area, argument, arrange, art, artful dodge, artifice, atmosphere, await, background, be destined, be fated, be imminent, be to be, be to come, blind, block, blueprint, brew, brouillon, cabal, calculate, cartoon, catastrophe, characterization, chart, chattels real, chicanery, clearing, clos, close, cogitate, collogue, collude, collusion, color, come, come on, complication, complicity, complot, compute, conceive, concoct, confederacy, connivance, connive, conniving, conspiracy, conspire, continuity, contraption, contrivance, contrive, contriving, cook up, copy, corn field, countermine, counterplot, coup, covin, craft, croft, cultivated land, cute trick, deceit, deep-laid plot, delineation, demesne, denouement, depict, design, determine, development, device, devise, diagram, dodge, domain, draft, draw, draw near, draw on, drawing, dream up, ebauche, elevation, enclave, engineer, engineering, episode, esquisse, expect, expedient, fable, fakement, falling action, feint, fetch, field, figure, finagle, finagling, find, finesse, fix, foresee, foretell, forethink, forty, frame, frame up, frame-up, gambit, game, gerrymander, gimmick, graph, grift, ground plan, grounds, hatch, hatch a plot, hatch up, hayfield, honor, hope, house plan, ichnography, incident, intrigue, jockey, jugglery, knavery, kraal, land, landed property, lands, lay, lay a plot, lay down, lay off, lay out, lie ahead, line, little game, local color, look for, look forward to, loom, lot, lots, machinate, machination, maneuver, maneuvering, manipulate, manipulation, manor, map, map out, mark off, mark out, messuage, mood, motif, move, movement, mythos, near, operate, organize, outline, pack, pack the deal, paddy, pale, parcel, parcel of land, patch, pattern, peripeteia, piece of land, plan, plat, play games, plot of ground, plot out, plotting, ploy, practice, praedium, prearrange, preconcert, preconsider, precontrive, predesign, predetermine, predict, premeditate, preorder, preresolve, profile, project, projection, property, prophesy, pull strings, quad, quadrangle, quadrat, racket, real estate, real property, realty, recognition, red herring, rice paddy, rig, rigging, rising action, rough, ruse, scenario, scheme, schemery, scheming, secondary plot, section, set out, set up, sew up, shift, show, skeleton, sketch, sketch out, slant, sleight, square, stack the cards, story, stratagem, strategy, structure, subject, subplot, subterfuge, switch, table, tactic, tenements, thematic development, theme, thread, threaten, toft, tone, topic, tract, trick, trickery, twist, underplot, wangle, web of intrigue, wheat field, wile, wily device, wire-pulling, work out beforehand, working drawing
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