plot
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
narratology
sciences
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 noun sense 5.
Noun sense 9 is a back-formation from for the plot.
Inflected forms:
form: plots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: plots
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: plotting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: plotted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: plotted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: An area or land used for building on or planting on.
pos: noun
gloss: A grave.
pos: noun
examples: He's buried in the family plot.
gloss: A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
pos: noun
examples: I was told to fly out on a vector of 100 degrees to meet a strong plot of aircraft 30 miles from the coast.
gloss: A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable.
pos: noun
examples: The plot would have enabled them to get a majority on the board.
The assassination of Lincoln was part of a larger plot.
I have o'erheard a plot of death.
O, think what anxious moments pass between / The birth of plots and their last fatal periods!
gloss: Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
pos: noun
examples: a man of much plot
gloss: Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
pos: noun
examples: And when Christ saith, Who marries the divorced commits adultery, it is to be understood, if he had any plot in the divorce.
gloss: A plan; a purpose.
pos: noun
examples: no other plot in their religion but serve God and save their souls
gloss: Attractive physical attributes of a fictional character; assets.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
slang
examples: Actor X has some great plot near the end of E07.
gloss: To conceive (a crime, misdeed etc).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: They had plotted a robbery.
They were plotting against the king.
gloss: To trace out (a graph or diagram).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They plotted the number of edits per day.
gloss: To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Every five minutes they plotted their position.
This treatise plotteth down Cornwall as it now standeth.
Synonyms: lot
Derived words: addle-plot
A plot
applot
Ashby plot
bagplot
barplot
beach ball plot
beanplot
bioplot
biplot
blobplot
box and whisker plot
box and whiskers plot
box plot
B plot
by-plot
doghouse plot
dotplot
emplot
Fermi-Kurie plot
forest plot
funnel plot
grass plot
green plot
Gunpowder Plot
heat plot
jitterplot
Joy plot
karyoplot
Kurie plot
line plot
lose the plot
macroplot
marplot
metaplot
microplot
mosaic plot
multiplot
plot armor
plot armour
plot bunny
plot coupon
plot device
plotful
plotholder
plotholding
plot hole
plotland
plotless
plotlet
plotline
plot line
plot point
plotproof
plottage
plot thickens
the plot thickens
plot twist
plot-twisty
plotty
plotwise
plotwork
Q-Q plot
Ramachandran plot
raster plot
ridgeline plot
scatterplot
scatter plot
scree plot
seedplot
souvenir plot
spine plot
star plot
stemplot
subplot
swarm plot
triplot
unplot
violin plot
volcano plot
waterfall plot
counterplot
misplot
underplot
coplot
lose to plot
outplot
overplot
plot out
plottable
plotter
replot
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