plot

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
2. An area or land used for building on or planting on.
3. A grave.
4. A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
5. A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable.
6. Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
7. Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
8. A plan; a purpose.
9. (slang) Attractive physical attributes of a fictional character; assets.

Verb

1. To conceive (a crime, misdeed etc).
2. To trace out (a graph or diagram).
3. To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).

Sinònims

scheme

plan

conspiracy

intrigue

conspire

design

lot

contrive

stratagem

diagram

devise

map

site

parcel

trick

outline

chart

💹

storyline

plot of land

plat

graph

connive

draw

story

complot

machinate

strategy

project

region

land

scenario

contrivance

propose

game

artifice

ground

draft

patch

field

tactics

subject

machination

ulterior motive

sketch

bed

🛏️

collaborate with

district

attempt

a lot

area

story line

secret plan

engineer

be an accomplice

collude with

piece

associate with

schedule

garden

portion

layout

survey

craft

arrange

plot of ground

portray

nursery

premeditate

intend

drawing

calculate

hatch

seek

🔍

conception

lay out

locality

terrain

subject matter

deception

create

agreement

trace

device

strip

small piece

manipulate

synopsis

plotting

unity

contemplate

aim

allotment

building lot

ploy

pencil

📝

stretch

study

summary

tangle

terrace

texture

think

🤔

thread

🧵

topic

trap

🪤

tricks

trouble

undertake

wangle

wile

wiles

piece of land

plan to commit a crime

plotline

plot line

pull wires

rice-field

secret intention

secret design

evil scheme

trick up one’s sleeve

development

lay a plot

be intent

contrive up

orchad

organery

plan contrive

form a plot

graphical chart

graphic chart

drawing practice

graphical plot

graph table

surveying and mapping

plot table

plant-school

seedling nursery

action

seek accord

affair

bespeak

betoken

block out

blueprint

border

bring about

cabal

cabala

case

catch

chapter

characterise

characterize

chicane

circumstances

clique

cogitate

collogue

collude

collusion

column

combine

conceive

concept

conference

conjure

connivance

content

court

covet

decide

denote

depict

describe

determine

dial

distinguish

division

dodge

draught

earth

estate

event

fig

flowerbed

frame

graphic representation

green

hatch up

idea

💡

image curve

incident

instigate

jockey

jugglery

lawn

make up

manage

maneuver

manual

map out

mapping

mark

mastermind

measure

movie

neighbor

nursery garden

opera

paint

partition

place

playground

procedure

program

programme

proposal

reach

realty

represent

rule

ruse

scale

scandal

screenplay

script

sector

seed

seek after

set up

set-up

shore

shrewd

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/plɒt/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: plot

Heretat de anglès antic: plot

Cognat amb Middle Low German: plet

Cognat amb alemany: Bletz

Cognat amb gòtic: 𐍀𐌻𐌰𐍄𐍃

In summary

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”), Gothic 𐍀𐌻𐌰𐍄𐍃 (plats, “a patch, rags”). See also plat. See also complot for an influence on or source of sense 5.
Sense 9 is a back-formation from for the plot.

Frases

The topmen began to plot mutiny .