Plot
English
Noun
Plot (plural Plots)- The general course of a story including significant events that determine its course or significant patterns of events.
- An area or land used for building on or planting on.
- A plan to commit a crime.
- A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
Synonyms
- (course of a story): storyline
- (plan to commit a crime): conspiracy, scheme
Derived terms
Verb
Plot (third-person singular simple present Plots, present participle plotting, simple past and past participle plotted)
- (transitive) To conceive (a crime, etc).
- They had plotted a robbery.
- (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.
- (intransitive) To conceive a crime, misdeed, etc.
- They were plotting against the king.
Adjectives for Plot
exaggerated; formidable; comprehensive; dramatic; sandy; insidious; tyrannical; thin; thickening; naughty; grassy; murderous; lurid; audacious; inhuman; marshy; detestable; ill-omened; unfrequented; complicated; daisied; infernal; precious; horrible; pretty; fertile; neglected.
Verbs for Plot
abet—; concoct—; construct—; cook up (colloq.)—; crush—; disclose—; entangle—; fancy—; found—on; frill—; garnish—; get wind of—; harmonize—; hatch—; implicate—; invent—; nip—; plunge into—; resolve—; spring—; summarize—; unmask—; weave—; —derives from; —generates; — smacks of.
Adverbs for Plot
devilishly; maliciously; grimly; infernally; diabolically; formidably; insidiously; tyrannically; audaciously; inhumanly; detestably; perniciously; traitorously; seditiously.
Thesaurus
acreage, acres, action, allotment, anagnorisis, angle, anticipate, approach, architectonics, architecture, area, argument, arrange, art, artful dodge, artifice, atmosphere, await, background, be destined, be fated, be imminent, be to be, be to come, blind, block, blueprint, brew, brouillon, cabal, calculate, cartoon, catastrophe, characterization, chart, chattels real, chicanery, clearing, clos, close, cogitate, collogue, collude, collusion, color, come, come on, complication, complicity, complot, compute, conceive, concoct, confederacy, connivance, connive, conniving, conspiracy, conspire, continuity, contraption, contrivance, contrive, contriving, cook up, copy, corn field, countermine, counterplot, coup, covin, craft, croft, cultivated land, cute trick, deceit, deep-laid plot, delineation, demesne, denouement, depict, design, determine, development, device, devise, diagram, dodge, domain, draft, draw, draw near, draw on, drawing, dream up, ebauche, elevation, enclave, engineer, engineering, episode, esquisse, expect, expedient, fable, fakement, falling action, feint, fetch, field, figure, finagle, finagling, find, finesse, fix, foresee, foretell, forethink, forty, frame, frame up, frame-up, gambit, game, gerrymander, gimmick, graph, grift, ground plan, grounds, hatch, hatch a plot, hatch up, hayfield, honor, hope, house plan, ichnography, incident, intrigue, jockey, jugglery, knavery, kraal, land, landed property, lands, lay, lay a plot, lay down, lay off, lay out, lie ahead, line, little game, local color, look for, look forward to, loom, lot, lots, machinate, machination, maneuver, maneuvering, manipulate, manipulation, manor, map, map out, mark off, mark out, messuage, mood, motif, move, movement, mythos, near, operate, organize, outline, pack, pack the deal, paddy, pale, parcel, parcel of land, patch, pattern, peripeteia, piece of land, plan, plat, play games, plot of ground, plot out, plotting, ploy, practice, praedium, prearrange, preconcert, preconsider, precontrive, predesign, predetermine, predict, premeditate, preorder, preresolve, profile, project, projection, property, prophesy, pull strings, quad, quadrangle, quadrat, racket, real estate, real property, realty, recognition, red herring, rice paddy, rig, rigging, rising action, rough, ruse, scenario, scheme, schemery, scheming, secondary plot, section, set out, set up, sew up, shift, show, skeleton, sketch, sketch out, slant, sleight, square, stack the cards, story, stratagem, strategy, structure, subject, subplot, subterfuge, switch, table, tactic, tenements, thematic development, theme, thread, threaten, toft, tone, topic, tract, trick, trickery, twist, underplot, wangle, web of intrigue, wheat field, wile, wily device, wire-pulling, work out beforehand, working drawing
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Synonyms
- (conceive a crime, etc): scheme
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Albanian
Adjective
plot
Croatian
Noun
plot
Czech
Noun
Plot m.
Derived terms
- živý plot m.
Related terms
Dutch
Verb
Plot
- first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of plotten.
- imperative of plotten.
