scheme

Meaning

Verb

1. To plot, or contrive a plan.
2. To plan; to contrive.

Noun

1. (obsolete) 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. (colloquial) A council housing estate.
9. Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as http: or news:.
10. 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

trick

outline

pattern

idea

💡

chart

💹

intention

map

strategy

drawing

model

conspiracy

devise

sketch

schedule

programme

maneuver

contrive

proposal

picture

manoeuvre

layout

connive

graph

figure

contrivance

draft

conception

method

plane

blueprint

attempt

machination

means

concept

engineer

ground plan

illustration

image

intend

machinate

ploy

policy

cogitate

frame up

lay out

dodge

prospectus

mode

intent

expedient

plat

calculate

road map

complot

artifice

arrangement

dodging

think

🤔

thought

💭

intrigues

procedure

create

goal

cabal

opinion

frame

ulterior motive

configurations

graphic

graphically

schemat

group

handling

hatch

hatch up

concoction

illustrate

maneuver

manoeuvre

imagery

institution

device⫷mn⫸

concoct

conceive

invent

jockey

con

lay-out

lie

rendition scheme

machinery

make

make up

manakin

compass

🧭

manikin

manner

mannikin

comment

combine

map out

mastermind

meaning

mechanical drawing

medium

combination

mock-up

collogue

modeling

modelling

move

nomogram

nomograph

order

painting

🖼️

circuitry

pencil

📝

circuit

chicane

chain

match fixing

point

point of view

process

bring about

block out

projection

blend

propose

proposition

purpose

pursue

reasoning

ring

💍

rink

ruse

scheming

seek

🔍

sense

sentence

set up

set-up

shenanigan

arrange

skill

speculate

springe

stamp

apparatus

apercu

subtlety

swindle

synthesis

animus

tactic

tactics

take in

task

timetable

trap

🪤

aim

tricks

trump

type

vagary

version

video

vision frequency

way

work

fashion model

intend to do

make arrangements

riding school

play a trick

program formulation

programme formulation

secret design

form a plan

work out a plan

graphique

agenda

adumbration

management

to intrigue

lay a plot

contrive up

plan out

graphical chart

schematic model

classification scheme

controlled vocabulary

graphic solution

graphic chart

graphic method

delta circuit

projet

classification chart

classification statement

sorting table

image picture

graphical plot

graph table

illustrated diagram

graphic treatment

craft

crafty

custom

deceive

deception

delineation

contemplate

designing

construct

devising

consideration

draff

connivance

draft copy

draw

conjure

dupe

electric circuit

graphic calculate

envision

establishment

excogitate

fable

fabrication

falsehood

feeling

conjecture

figure out

finesse

fraud

game

gimmick

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 .