Scheme

Noun

 * 1) A systematic plan of future action.
 * 2) A plot or secret, devious plan.
 * 3) An orderly combination of related parts.
 * 4) A chart or diagram of a system or object.
 * 5)  A type of topological space.
 * 6)  A council housing estate.
 * 7)  An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.

Synonyms

 * blueprint

Verb

 * 1)  To plot, or contrive a plan.

Adjectives for Scheme
curious; artistic; nameless; recognized; comprehensive; suitable; subtile; beautiful; selling; ambitious; philanthropic; systematic; ingenious; illusory; unphilosophical; mature; marvelous; impractical; dualistic; seditious; educational; critical; far-reaching; imperial; iconographic; poaching; dubious; hostile; gigantic; cherished; social; multiform (pi); elaborate; improvident; decorative; extensive; despotic; rascally; visionary; promising; constructive; wild; speculative; gardening; unbodied; prearranged; entangled; abominable; interesting; tortuous; iniquitous; rational; ludicrous; extravagant; feasible; generous; well-weighed; detailed; warm; rhpry; pedious; chimerical; digesting, eternal', desolate; providential; prodigal; cowardly; particular; flying; fantastic; vast; homely; harmonious; artless; selfish; colossal; bold; notable; advantageous; flimsy; seductive; wonderful; darling; complicated; shallow; monotonous.

Verbs for Scheme
abandon—; administer—; adopt—; back out of—; blast—; broach—; commit to—; con¬coct—; contemplate—; dally with—; demonstrate—; devise—; discern—; foist—upon; formulate—; fulfill—; further—; immerse in—; launch—; mature—; mull over—s; organize—; promote—; prosecute—; puzzle out—; resurrect—; scrap—; scrutinize—; seethe with—s; spin—; stymie—; undertake —; view—; —concentrates on; —goes awry; —hatches; —intrigues; —unfolds.

Adverbs for Scheme
covetously; traitorously; diabolically; viciously; abominably; extravagantly; chimerically; artlessly; advantageously; systematically; politically; seditiously;  tortuously; perfidiously.

Thesaurus
Byzantine intrigues, action, anagnorisis, angle, approach, architectonics, architecture, argument, arrangement, art, artful dodge, artifice, atmosphere, attack, background, backstairs influence, bag of tricks, blind, blueprint, blueprinting, bluff, bosey, brew, cabal, calculate, calculation, catalog, catalogue raisonne, catastrophe, catch, characterization, chart, charting, chicanery, chouse, collude, collusion, color, complication, complicity, complot, conception, concoct, confederacy, connections, connivance, connive, conspiracy, conspire, continuity, contrivance, contrive, contriving, cook up, countermine, counterplot, coup, course of action, covin, craft, curve, curve-ball, cute trick, deals, deceit, deep-laid plot, denouement, design, development, device, devise, diagram, dirty deal, dirty trick, disposition, dodge, draft, drawing, engineer, engineering, enterprise, envisagement, episode, expedient, exposition, fable, fakement, falling action, fast deal, feint, fetch, ficelle, figuring, finagle, finagling, finesse, fix, foresight, forethink, forethought, formulate, frame, frame up, frame-up, gambit, game, game plan, games, gerrymander, gimmick, googly, graph, graphing, grift, ground plan, guidelines, hatch, hatch a plot, hatch up, hocus-pocus, idea, incident, influence peddling, intention, intrigue, intrigues, jockey, joker, juggle, jugglery, knavery, lay a plot, layout, line, lineup, little game, lobbying, lobbyism, local color, long-range plan, machinate, machination, maneuver, maneuvering, manipulate, manipulation, map, mapping, master plan, method, methodology, mood, motif, move, movement, mythos, operate, operations research, order, ordering, organization, organize, outline, pack, pack the deal, pass, pattern, peripeteia, plan, planning, planning function, play games, plot, plotting, ploy, ploys, practice, prearrange, prearrangement, preconcert, preconsider, precontrive, predesign, predetermine, premeditate, preorder, preresolve, presentation, procedure, program, program of action, project, projection, proposal, proposition, pull strings, racket, rationalization, recognition, red herring, rig, rigging, rising action, ropes, ruse, scenario, schedule, schema, schematic, schematism, schematization, scheme of arrangement, schemery, schemes, scheming, scurvy trick, secondary plot, set up, setup, sew up, shift, slant, sleight, sleight of hand, sleight-of-hand trick, stack the cards, story, stratagem, strategic plan, strategy, strings, structure, subject, subplot, subterfuge, suggestion, switch, system, systematization, table, table of contents, tactic, tactical plan, tactics, technique, the big picture, the picture, thematic development, theme, tone, topic, trick, trickery, twist, underplot, wangle, way, web of intrigue, wile, wily device, wire-pulling, wires, work out beforehand, working plan

Etymology
From schema:.

Noun

 * Basque:
 * Czech: plán
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:


 * Japanese:, , , ; 枠組み
 * Polish: ,
 * Russian: ,


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Finnish:


 * Japanese:, 計略
 * Russian: ,


 * Finnish:
 * Japanese: 体系, 構成


 * Russian:


 * Czech: schéma
 * Finnish:


 * Japanese: ;  ;  図表
 * Russian:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:


 * Japanese: 概型


 * : plan (1,2), shema  (3,4)
 * : 方案 (fāng àn)
 * : schema, programma
 * : système, schéma
 * : Schema
 * : terv
 * : terv


 * : schema
 * : 계획 (gyehoek)
 * : esquema
 * : esquema
 * : schema

Verb

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Finnish:


 * Japanese:
 * Russian: ; замышлять, замыслить