# plot
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English plot, plotte, from Old English plot (“a plot of ground”), from Proto-Germanic *plataz, *platjaz (“a patch”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Middle Low German plet (“patch, strip of cloth, rags”), German Bletz (“rags, bits, strip of land”), and possibly Gothic 𐍀𐌻𐌰𐍄 (plat, “a patch, rags”). See also plat. See also complot for an influence on or source of sense 5.
Sense 9 is a back-formation of for the plot.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /plɒt/
* (General American) IPA: /plɑt/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒt

### Noun

plot (plural plots)
* (narratology) The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means. [from 1640s]
    Synonym: storyline
** c. 1725, Alexander Pope, View of the Epic Poem: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.
* An area or land used for building on or planting on. [from 1550s]
    Synonym: parcel
* A grave.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:grave
    He's buried in the family plot.
* A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
    Synonyms: scheme; see also Thesaurus:diagram
** 2017, Mark Chambers, Tony Holmes, Nakajima B5N ‘Kate’ and B6N ‘Jill’ Units, page 32:I was told to fly out on a vector of 100 degrees to meet a strong plot of aircraft 30 miles from the coast.
* A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable. [from 1580s]
    Synonyms: conspiracy, intrigue, machination, scheme
    The plot would have enabled them to get a majority on the board.
    The assassination of Lincoln was part of a larger plot.
** c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vi]:I have o'erheard a plot of death.
** 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 1:O, think what anxious moments pass between / The birth of plots and their last fatal periods!
* Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
** a. 1669, John Denham, On Mr Thomas Killigrew's Return from Venice, and Mr William Murrey's from Scotland:a man of much plot
* Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
** 1644, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce: […], 2nd edition, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, book:And when Christ saith, Who marries the divorced commits adultery, it is to be understood, if he had any plot in the divorce.
* A plan; a purpose.
    Synonyms: design; see also Thesaurus:design
** 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:no other plot in their religion but serve God and save their souls
* (fandom slang, euphemistic) Attractive physical attributes of a fictional character; assets.
    Actor X has some great plot near the end of E07.

#### Derived terms

* A plot
* beach ball plot
* box and whisker plot
* box and whiskers plot
* box plot
* B plot
* by-plot
* doghouse plot
* forest plot
* funnel plot
* Gunpowder Plot
* heat plot
* Joy plot
* line plot
* lose the plot
* mosaic plot
* plot armor
* plot armour
* plot bunny
* plot coupon
* plot device
* plot hole
* plotless
* plot line
* plot point
* plot twist
* plot-twisty
* Q-Q plot
* Ramachandran plot
* raster plot
* ridgeline plot
* scatter plot
* scree plot
* spine plot
* star plot
* subplot
* swarm plot
* the plot thickens, plot thickens
* violin plot
* volcano plot
* waterfall plot

#### Translations
### Verb

plot (third-person singular simple present plots, present participle plotting, simple past and past participle plotted)
* (transitive, intransitive) To conceive (a crime, misdeed etc).
    They had plotted a robbery.
    They were plotting against the king.
* (transitive) To trace out (a graph or diagram).
    They plotted the number of edits per day.
* (transitive) To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
    Every five minutes they plotted their position.
** 1602, Richard Carew, Survey on Cornwall:This treatise plotteth down Cornwall as it now standeth.

#### Synonyms

* (contrive): becast
* (conceive a crime, etc): connive
* (an area of land): lot

#### Derived terms

* replot
* plot out

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* OLTP, PTOL, lopt, polt

## Albanian
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁tós (“full”), from the root *pleh₁- (“to fill”). Compare Sanskrit प्रात (prātá), Latin com-plētus.

### Adverb

plót
* fully, to full capacity, to the brim
    Synonym: mbushur
    Antonyms: bosh, zbrazët
    me gojën plot ― with one's mouth full
    Dhoma ishte plot. ― The house was full.
* full, cramped (of people, things, etc.)
    Synonym: mbushur
    Kopshti ishte plot me lule. ― The garden was full of flowers.
* a lot, much
    Synonyms: shumë, mjaft
* with everything, lacking nothing. complete, full
* with a full, complete view
    Është hëna plot. ― It's a full moon.
* (colloquial) successfully
    Synonym: në shenjë
    Antonym: bosh
* full of. followed by an indefinite form
    Synonyms: tërë, gjithë
    plot gëzim ― full of joy
* exactly, precisely
    Synonyms: pikërisht, tamam
    plot dy orë ― exactly two hours

#### Derived terms

* i plótë

### References

* ↑ Meyer, G. (1891) “pľot”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 345
* ↑ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “pel-, pelə-, pēl-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 799
* ↑ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “plotë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 335

### Further reading

* FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎, 1980

## Czech
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech plot, from Proto-Slavic *plotъ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈplot]

### Noun

plot m inan
* fence
    dřevěný plot ― wooden fence

#### Derived terms

* živý plot m

#### Related terms

* oplotit

### Further reading

* “plot”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “plot”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “plot”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /plɔt/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔt

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English plot.

#### Noun

plot m or n (plural plots, diminutive plotje n)
* plot (course of a story)
    Synonyms: intrige, verhaal, verwikkeling

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English plot.

#### Noun

plot m (plural plots, diminutive plotje n)
* plot (graph or diagram)
    Synonyms: diagram, grafiek

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

plot
* inflection of plotten:
** first/second/third-person singular present indicative
** imperative

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /plo/
** Audio:(file)
* IPA: /plɔ/ (older, now chiefly Belgium)
* Rhymes: -o, -ɔ

### Noun

plot m (plural plots)
* traffic cone
* cone used in slalom

### Further reading

* “plot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Dutch plot, from English plot, from Middle English plot, plotte, from Old English plot (“a plot of ground”), from Proto-Germanic *plataz, *platjaz (“a patch”), of uncertain origin.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /plɔt/

### Noun

plot
* plot (course of a story)

### Further reading

* plot on the Indonesian Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{id}$
* “plot” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Luxembourgish
### Verb

plot
* third-person singular present indicative of ploen
* second-person plural present indicative of ploen
* second-person plural imperative of ploen

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /plot/

### Noun

plot m
* plot (of land)

#### Descendants

* Middle English: plot
** English: plot

### References

* Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “plot”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈplɔt/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔt
* Syllabification: plot

### Noun

plot f
* genitive plural of plota

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *plotъ.

### Noun

plȏt m (Cyrillic spelling пло̑т)
* fence

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “plot”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
* “plot”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

## Spanish
### Noun

plot m (plural plots)
* (story-telling) plot