5 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Scheme \Scheme\, v. i.
To form a scheme or schemes.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Scheme \Scheme\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Schemed}; p. pr & vb n.
{Scheming}.]
To make a scheme of to plan to design; to project; to plot.
That wickedness which schemed, and executed, his
destruction. --G. Stuart.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Scheme \Scheme\, n. [L. schema a rhetorical figure, a shape,
figure, manner, Gr ?, ?, form shape, outline, plan fr ?,
?, to have or hold to hold out sustain, check, stop; cf
Skr. sah to be victorious, to endure, to hold out AS sige
victory, G. sieg. Cf {Epoch}, {Hectic}, {School}.]
1. A combination of things connected and adjusted by design;
a system.
The appearance and outward scheme of things
--Locke.
Such a scheme of things as shall at once take in
time and eternity. --Atterbury.
Arguments . . . sufficient to support and
demonstrate a whole scheme of moral philosophy. --J.
Edwards.
The Revolution came and changed his whole scheme of
life. --Macaulay.
2. A plan or theory something to be done a design; a
project; as to form a scheme.
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping
off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when
we want shoes. --Swift.
3. Any lineal or mathematical diagram; an outline.
To draw an exact scheme of Constantinople, or a map
of France. --South.
4. (Astrol.) A representation of the aspects of the celestial
bodies for any moment or at a given event.
A blue silk case, from which was drawn a scheme of
nativity. --Sir W.
Scott.
Syn: Plan project; contrivance; purpose; device; plot.
Usage: {Scheme}, {Plan}. Scheme and plan are subordinate to
design; they propose modes of carrying our designs
into effect. Scheme is the least definite of the two
and lies more in speculation. A plan is drawn out into
details with a view to being carried into effect. As
schemes are speculative, they often prove visionary;
hence the opprobrious use of the words schemer and
scheming. Plans, being more practical, are more
frequently carried into effect.
He forms the well-concerted scheme of mischief;
'T is fixed, 't is done and both are doomed to
death. --Rowe.
Artists and plans relieved my solemn hours; I
founded palaces, and planted bowers. --Prior.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
scheme
n 1: an elaborate and systematic plan of action [syn: {strategy}]
2: a statement that evades the question by cleverness or
trickery [syn: {dodge}, {dodging}]
v 1: form intrigues for in an underhand manner [syn: {intrigue},
{connive}]
2: devise a system or form a scheme for
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
Scheme
(Originally "Schemer", by analogy with {Planner} and
{Conniver}). A small uniform {Lisp} dialect with clean
{semantics}, developed initially by {Guy Steele} and {Gerald
Sussman} in 1975. Scheme uses {applicative order reduction}
and is {lexically scoped}. It treats both functions and
{continuation}s as {first-class} objects.
One of the most used implementations is {DrScheme}, others
include include {Bigloo}, {Elk}, {Liar}, {Orbit}, {Scheme86}
(Indiana U), {SCM}, {MacScheme} (Semantic Microsystems), {PC
Scheme} (TI), {MIT Scheme}, and {T}.
See also {Kamin's interpreters}, {PSD}, {PseudoScheme},
{Schematik}, {Scheme Repository}, {STk}, {syntax-case}, {Tiny
Clos}, {Paradigms of AI Programming}.
There have been a series of revisions of the report defining
Scheme, known as {RRS} (Revised Report on Scheme), {R2RS}
(Revised Revised Report ..), {R3RS}, {R3.899RS}, {R4RS}.
{Scheme resources (http://www.schemers.org/)}.
Mailing list: scheme@mc.lcs.mit.edu.
[IEEE P1178-1990, "IEEE Standard for the Scheme Programming
Language", ISBN 1-55937-125-0].
(2001-02-22)
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