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Plot   /plɑt/   Listen
Plot

noun
1.
A secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal).  Synonyms: game, secret plan.  "I saw through his little game from the start"
2.
A small area of ground covered by specific vegetation.  Synonyms: patch, plot of ground, plot of land.  "A cabbage patch" , "A briar patch"
3.
The story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc..
4.
A chart or map showing the movements or progress of an object.
verb
(past & past part. plotted; pres. part. plotting)
1.
Plan secretly, usually something illegal.
2.
Make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed.  Synonym: diagram.
3.
Make a plat of.  Synonym: plat.
4.
Devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet).



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"Plot" Quotes from Famous Books



... Glumdalclitch left me on a smooth grass-plot to divert myself, while she walked at some distance with her governess. In the meantime, there suddenly fell such a violent shower of hail, that I was immediately by the force of it, struck to the ground: and when I was down, the hailstones gave me such cruel bangs ...
— Gulliver's Travels - into several remote nations of the world • Jonathan Swift
... when Pizarro had directed Rocco to kill a prisoner in a certain dungeon, she overheard a good deal of the plot, and she began to fear it might ...
— Operas Every Child Should Know - Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces • Mary Schell Hoke Bacon
... Yea, that same being who did plot with Cain, that if he would murder his brother Abel it should not be known unto the world. And he did plot with Cain and his followers ...
— The Book Of Mormon - An Account Written By The Hand Of Mormon Upon Plates Taken - From The Plates Of Nephi • Anonymous
... others are slightly sketched out. Among these latter—are Baptistes, on the death of John the Baptist, and Christus Patiens, apparently to be confined to the agony in the garden. Of Paradise Lost there are four drafts in greater detail than any of the others. These drafts of the plot or action, though none of them that which was finally adopted, are sufficiently near to the action of the poem as it stands, to reveal to as the fact that the author's imaginative conception of what he intended ...
— Milton • Mark Pattison
... maybe more than becometh your wife, to win him over. He almost consented, and I declare to you that Livingstone is with us. I could have sworn two days ago that the regiment would have joined us and been waiting for you. But that determined Whig, Captain Balfour, discovered the plot, and I had a message yesterday afternoon that it was hopeless. So for fear of arrest I hurried to Glenogilvie, and tried to intercept your coming. Blame not me, for I could do no more—and what mean you by calling me ever by my title and not ...
— Graham of Claverhouse • Ian Maclaren


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