Plot

Noun

 * 1) The general course of a story including significant events that determine its course or significant patterns of events.
 * 2) An area or land used for building on or planting on.
 * 3) A plan to commit a crime.
 * 4) A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.

Synonyms

 * storyline
 * conspiracy, scheme

Derived terms

 * Gunpowder Plot
 * lose the plot
 * plotless
 * subplot
 * the plot thickens/plot thickens

Verb

 * 1)  To conceive (a crime, etc).
 * They had plotted'' a robbery.
 * 1)  To trace out (a graph or diagram).
 * They plotted the number of edits per day.
 * 1)  To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
 * Every five minutes they plotted their position.
 * 1)  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

Etymology
plot:

Noun

 * Arabic: حبكة
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ; (of a film or play)
 * Dutch: plot /, intrige, verhaal
 * Finnish:
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 * German:


 * Icelandic: ráðabrugg
 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: фабула, сюжет
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Icelandic: reitur, skiki, blettur, lóð


 * Russian: надел, делянка, участок
 * Spanish:, lote


 * Chinese:
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 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: komploto
 * Finnish:, rikossuunnitelma,
 * French:
 * Icelandic: ráðabrugg


 * Italian:
 * Latin: ,
 * Manx: cochialg
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: complô
 * Romanian:
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 * Polish: wykres


 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: граф, график, диаграмма
 * Spanish: ,

Verb

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 * Icelandic: brugga launráð
 * Portuguese:
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 * German:
 * Icelandic: kortleggja
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 * Finnish:


 * French: conspirer

Synonyms

 * scheme

Derived terms

 * replot

Anagrams

 * OLTP
 * polt

Adjective
plot


 * 1) full

Noun
plot


 * 1) fence

Noun

 * 1) fence

Derived terms

 * živý plot

Related terms

 * oplotit