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   Plot

   /plät/

   

   noun

   • 1. a plan made in secret by a group of people to do something illegal or harmful: "they have been jailed for their part in a plot to defraud a Swiss bank" Similar conspiracyintriguesecret plan/schemestratagemmachinationsrare:cabalcomplotcovin
   • 2. the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence: "the plot consists almost entirely of a man and woman falling in love" Similar storylinestorychain of eventsscenarioactionthreadrare:diegesismythos
   • 3. a small piece of ground marked out for a purpose such as building or gardening: "a vegetable plot" Similar piece of groundpatcharealocationparceltractallotmentacreagelotplathomesitestandyarderf
   • 4. a graph showing the relation between two variables.
   • ▪ a diagram, chart, or map. US

   verb

   • 1. secretly make plans to carry out (an illegal or harmful action): "the two men are serving sentences for plotting a bomb campaign" Similar planschemearrangeorganizelayhatchconcoctdeviseframethink updream upcook upbrewconceiveconspireschemeparticipate in a conspiracyintriguecolludeconnivemaneuverrare:machinatecabalcomplot
   • 2. devise the sequence of events in (a play, novel, movie, or similar work): "she would plot a chapter as she drove"
   • 3. mark (a route or position) on a chart: "he started to plot lines of ancient sites" Similar markchartmapindicaterepresentgraph
   • ▪ mark out or allocate (points) on a graph: "the dependent variable's points are plotted on the Y axis"
   • ▪ make (a curve) by marking out a number of points on a graph: "a cooling curve is plotted and the freezing point determined"
   • ▪ illustrate by use of a graph: "it is possible to plot fairly closely the rate at which recruitment of girls increased"

   Word Origin late Old English (in plot (sense 3 of the noun)), of unknown origin. The sense ‘secret plan’, dating from the late 16th century, is associated with Old French complot ‘dense crowd, secret project’, the same term being used occasionally in English from the mid 16th century Compare with plat1.

   Derivatives

   • 1. plotless adjective

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