[
UK
/plˈɒt/
]
[ US /ˈpɫɑt/ ]
[ US /ˈpɫɑt/ ]
NOUN
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a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation
a bean plot
a briar patch
a cabbage patch -
the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.
the characters were well drawn but the plot was banal -
a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
I saw through his little game from the start
they concocted a plot to discredit the governor - a chart or graph showing the movements or progress of an object
VERB
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plan secretly, usually something illegal
They plotted the overthrow of the government - make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed
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devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet)
the writer is plotting a new novel -
make a plat of
Plat the town
How To Use plot In A Sentence
- For instance, a few weeks ago in my sports statistics class, I envisioned a type of graph that’s a combination boxplot and lineplot — instead of turning towards Excel, I coded a Mathematica module to create this type of graph and then automate the creation of many of these. Wolfram Blog : Get Your Game On for Mathematics Awareness Month!
- There are a few plotlines and characters - Sophie's mother in particular - that are somewhat redundant and unnecessary.
- These deals are large and complex, requiring a lot more than just a "consigliere" -- a term always used with "The Godfather" playing in the background -- sitting in a dark room plotting with a CEO. Robert Teitelman: Svengalis, Bankers and the Role of Intermediaries
- Canadians were unhappy with so-called intrusive questions, the aggravation of filling it out and even a few were convinced the census was part of a government plot, according to Thestar.com - Home Page
- The plotters were arrested in September 2006, just a few months after the country broke away from Serbia.
- Serial killer plots (or subplots) just plain annoy me. Great Things Come to Those Who Wait : The Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas
- The film had a rather tired plot.
- This construction of a new world order comes from a naïive and untraveled President, emboldened in his ignorance by advisors who have been plotting an aggressive Pax Americana ever since the Soviet bloc's collapse.
- Yet his paranoid fear of plots and conspiracies beset him to the end of his life. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
- But her own life was often stranger than any action-packed fiction plot.