scheme
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astrology
human-sciences
mathematics
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From late Middle English scheame, from Medieval Latin schēma (“figure, form”), from Ancient Greek σχῆμα (skhêma, “form, shape”), from ἔχω (ékhō, “to hold”). Doublet of schema. Compare sketch.
Inflected forms:
form: schemes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: schemes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: scheming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: schemed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: schemed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
rhetoric
gloss: A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
pos: noun
examples: a blue case, from which was drawn a scheme of nativity
gloss: A systematic plan of future action.
pos: noun
examples: The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
Originally the opening had doubtless marked the projection of another road, but the scheme had come to nothing.
There are schemes to transfer electrical energy from braking trains into local power grids, and even more radical plans for “moving platforms” that dock with high-speed trains. […] A “moving platform” scheme proposed by Priestmangoode is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays. This set-up solves several problems […].
Such [rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.
gloss: A plot or secret, devious plan.
pos: noun
gloss: An orderly combination of related parts.
pos: noun
examples: the appearance and outward scheme of things
such a scheme of things as shall at once take in time and eternity
arguments […] sufficient to support and demonstrate a whole scheme of moral philosophy
The Revolution came and changed his whole scheme of life.
gloss: A chart or diagram of a system or object.
pos: noun
examples: April 29, 1694, Robert South, A Sermon Preached at Westminster Abbey
to draw an exact scheme of Constantinople, or a map of France
gloss: A mathematical structure that generalizes the notion of an algebraic variety in several ways, such as taking account of multiplicities and allowing "varieties" defined over any commutative ring. Formally, a locally ringed space that admits a covering by open sets, each of which is isomorphic to an affine scheme (i.e. the spectrum of some commutative ring).
pos: noun
gloss: A council housing estate.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
UK
colloquial
examples: It was all too dear. They all just put their prices up because it was out in the scheme.
“You can’t really say to the kids in the schemes [Scottish council estates]^([sic]): don’t do drugs, they’ll wreck your life, you’ll never get a job or a house or buy nice things.”
gloss: Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as http: or news:.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
gloss: A portfolio of pension plans with related benefits comprising multiple independent members.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: To plot, or contrive a plan; to maneuver.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Laura snatches coins from inside a truck to make a telephone call, scrounges shoes and clothes for them at a municipal beach, schemes to get a room key so she and Howie can sleep overnight in the Starlight Motel, steals a Jeepster from a deputy sheriff who's trying to arrest them.
The openly ridiculous plot has The Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant) scheming to win the Pirate Of The Year competition, even though he’s a terrible pirate, far outclassed by rivals voiced by Jeremy Piven and Salma Hayek.
gloss: To plan; to contrive; to maneuver.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He schemed a plot. He made use of the hotel's stationery to write a letter.
Synonyms: hatch
intrigue
Derived words: grand scheme of things
schematization
scheme arch
scheme of studies
scheme of things
schemer
schemester
scheme theory
schemie
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: планирам
roman: planiram
lang: Bulgarian
word: проектирам
roman: proektiram
lang: Catalan
word: maquinar
lang: Catalan
word: tramar
lang: Catalan
word: ordir
lang: Catalan
word: conspirar
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 密謀 /密谋
roman: mìmóu
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 陰謀 /阴谋
roman: yīnmóu
lang: Cornish
word: devisya
lang: Finnish
word: juonitella
lang: Finnish
word: kieroilla
lang: Finnish
word: suunnitella
lang: Finnish
word: vehkeillä
lang: French
word: conspirer
lang: French
word: tramer
lang: German
word: etwas aushecken
lang: German
word: intrigieren
lang: Greek
word: απεργάζομαι
roman: apergázomai
lang: Greek
word: εξυφαίνω
roman: exyfaíno
lang: Greek
word: σχεδιάζω
roman: schediázo
lang: Greek
word: σκευωρώ
roman: skevoró
lang: Greek
word: συνωμοτώ
roman: synomotó
lang: Hungarian
word: mesterkedik
lang: Hungarian
word: ármánykodik
lang: Hungarian
word: cselt sző
lang: Japanese
word: 計画する
roman: kēkaku suru
lang: Latin
word: contechnor
lang: Middle English
word: ymagynen
lang: Middle English
word: compassen
lang: Russian
word: плани́ровать
roman: planírovatʹ
lang: Russian
word: замы́слить
roman: zamýslitʹ
lang: Russian
word: замышля́ть
roman: zamyšljátʹ
lang: Spanish
word: tramar
lang: Spanish
word: urdir
lang: Swedish
word: smida ränker