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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Plot \Plot\, n. [AS. plot; cf Goth. plats a patch. Cf {Plat} a piece of ground.] 1. A small extent of ground; a plat; as a garden plot. --Shak. 2. A plantation laid out [Obs.] --Sir P. Sidney. 3. (Surv.) A plan or draught of a field, farm, estate, etc., drawn to a scale. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Plot \Plot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Plotted}; p. pr & vb n. {Plotting}.] To make a plot, map, pr plan of to mark the position of on a plan to delineate. This treatise plotteth down Cornwall as it now standeth --Carew. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Plot \Plot\, n. [Abbrev. from complot.] 1. Any scheme, stratagem, secret design, or plan of a complicated nature, adapted to the accomplishment of some purpose, usually a treacherous and mischievous one a conspiracy; an intrigue; as the Rye-house Plot. I have overheard a plot of death. --Shak. O, think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots and their last fatal periods! --Addison. 2. A share in such a plot or scheme; a participation in any stratagem or conspiracy. [Obs.] And when Christ saith, Who marries the divorced commits adultery, it is to be understood, if he had any plot in the divorce. --Milton. 3. Contrivance; deep reach of thought; ability to plot or intrigue. [Obs.] ``A man of much plot.'' --Denham. 4. A plan a purpose. ``No other plot in their religion but serve God and save their souls.'' --Jer. Taylor. 5. In fiction, the story of a play, novel, romance, or poem, comprising a complication of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means If the plot or intrigue must be natural, and such as springs from the subject, then the winding up of the plot must be a probable consequence of all that went before --Pope. Syn: Intrigue; stratagem; conspiracy; cabal; combination; contrivance. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Plot \Plot\, v. t. To plan to scheme; to devise; to contrive secretly. ``Plotting an unprofitable crime.'' --Dryden. ``Plotting now the fall of others.'' --Milton From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Plot \Plot\ (pl[o^]t), v. i. 1. To form a scheme of mischief against another, especially against a government or those who administer it to conspire. --Shak. The wicked plotteth against the just --Ps. xxxvii 12. 2. To contrive a plan or stratagem; to scheme. The prince did plot to be secretly gone. --Sir H. Wotton. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: plot n 1: a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal); "they concocted a plot to discredit the governor" [syn: {secret plan}] 2: a small area of planted ground; "a cabbage patch" [syn: {plot of ground}, {patch}] 3: the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.; "the characters were well drawn but the plot was banal" 4: a chart or map showing the movements or progress of an object v 1: plan secretly, usually something illegal; "They plotted the overthrow fo the government" 2: make a schematic or technical drawing of make a diagram of [syn: {diagram}] 3: make a plat of "Plat the town" [syn: {plat}]
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