scheme

Meaning

Verb

1. (intransitive) To plot, or contrive a plan; to manuever.
2. (transitive) To plan; to contrive; to manuever.

Noun

1. (obsolete, rhetoric) An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.
2. A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
3. A systematic plan of future action.
4. A plot or secret, devious plan.
5. An orderly combination of related parts.
6. A chart or diagram of a system or object.
7. A mathematical structure that generalizes the notion of an algebraic variety in several ways, such as taking account of multiplicities and allowing "varieties" defined over any commutative ring. Formally, a locally ringed space that admits a covering by open sets, each of which is isomorphic to an affine scheme (i.e. the spectrum of some commutative ring).
8. (Scotland, UK, colloquial) A council housing estate.
9. (Internet) Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as http: or news:.
10. (UK) A portfolio of pension plans with related benefits comprising multiple independent members.

Synonyms

plan

plot

project

design

program

diagram

stratagem

intrigue

system

schema

conspire

device

outline

trick

pattern

map

chart

💹

idea

💡

intention

strategy

drawing

model

sketch

conspiracy

programme

schedule

devise

manoeuvre

maneuver

layout

proposal

contrive

connive

picture

blueprint

method

machination

attempt

graph

plane

figure

conception

draft

contrivance

means

machinate

intend

ground plan

illustration

ploy

Translations

schema

Plan

projet

Entwurf

plan

esquema

schéma

plan

progetto

esquema

Schema

ontwerp

plano

projeto

Pronounced as (IPA)

/skiːm/

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin schēma (“figure, form”), from Ancient Greek σχῆμα (skhêma, “form, shape”), from ἔχω (ékhō, “I hold”). Doublet of schema. Compare sketch.

Sentences

The gum was packaged in a red , white , and blue color scheme .