Word Finder - plot

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(authorship) The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.

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• storyline

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An area or land used for building on or planting on.

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• parcel

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A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.

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A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable.

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The assassination of Lincoln was part of a larger plot.

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• conspiracy
• scheme

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Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.

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Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.

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A plan; a purpose.

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To conceive (a crime, etc).

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They had plotted a robbery.

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To trace out (a graph or diagram).

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They plotted the number of edits per day.

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To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).

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Every five minutes they plotted their position.

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To conceive a crime, misdeed, etc.

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They were plotting against the king.

The plot summary leaves a lot to be desired!

To plot against him, to attempt his life by poison or the sword, was accounted virtuous.

Set this keyboard to generate a scatter plot.

Sofia didn't have time to plot how to approach her.

As a novel Valentine has little to commend it; the plot is feeble and the characters shadowy.

The plot twist is lifted directly from the Woman in White.

He purchased a plot of land from his cousin.

A plot to carry off the young Mortimers was defeated; but Mowbray, the earl marshal, who had been privy to it, raised a rebellion in the north supported by Archbishop Scrope of York.

The issue of this plot was the well-known fight of "Clear-the-Causeway," in which Gavin Douglas's part stands out in picturesque relief.

Rumours of a reactionary plot by Austria and the Jesuits against Pius, induced him to create a national guard and to appoint Cardinal Ferretti as secretary of state.

From the continuous records of slack and strain combined with the weight of the cable it is a simple matter to calculate and plot the depths along the whole route of the cable as actually laid.

The plot is both improbable and unpleasing.

Albany's longer absence in France permitted the partyfaction of the nobles to come to a head in a plot by the earl of Arran to seize the earl of Angus, the queen's husband.

He was accused of complicity in a plot to murder Duke Henry, who in return ravaged the archiepiscopal lands in Saxony and Thuringia.

It's no joke, this plot you've hatched.

The plot would never have been a menace to Austria but for her treatment of the conspirators.

The distinction between this Satura and the plays of Euripides or Menander was that it had no regular plot.

An example of a noise contour plot of road traffic noise in a residential area is shown.

The plot being discovered, Garibaldi fled, but was condemned to death by default on the 3rd of June 1834.

After his release in May 1819, having broken away from Henry Hunt and the more moderate reformers, he prepared a new and comprehensive plot.

In a third tragedy, Love's Sacrifice (acted c. 1630; printed in 1633), he again worked on similar materials; but this time he unfortunately essayed to base the interest of his plot upon an unendurably unnatural possibility - doing homage to virtue after a fashion which is in itself an insult.

For one thing, they only listed the title of the movie, the name of the production company that filmed it and a brief mention of the plot.

Plot the line you will take through the rapid, using your identified points of reference.

In the autumn of the same year he was appointed to preach in St Mary's on the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot, and apparently used the occasion to clear himself of a suspicion, which, however, haunted him through life, of a secret leaning to the Romish communion.

The party which had set up the Committee of Public Safety was now struck down by the very man who through the Directory inherited by direct lineal descent the dictatorial powers instituted in the spring of 1793 for the salvation of the republic. It remains to add that the suspects in the plot of October 1800 were now guillotined (31st of January 1801), and that two of the plotters closely connected with the affair of Nivose were also executed (21st of April).

A similar plot and rebellion took place in the province of Pernambuco, where the inhabitants of the important commercial city of Recife (Pernambuco) were jealous of Rio and the sacrifices they were compelled to make for the support of the luxurious court there.

The characters are well drawn and the dialogue full of comic strength, the scenes knit together and the plot skilfully worked out.

In February 1643 Fiennes was sent down to Bristol, arrested Colonel Essex the governor, executed the two leaders of a plot to deliver up the city, and received a commission himself as governor on the 1st of May 1643.

Cassilis was a Protestant and the patron of Knox's friend and teacher, George Wishart; Cassilis would not commit himself formally, and the threads of the plot are lost, owing to a great gap in the records.

At the intersection of a street with an avenue there is usually the reservation of a small triangular grass plot at least.

The manner in which this subject is worked out will appear from the following summary in which we distinguish (I) the plot, i.e.

But Agrippina saved herself by swimming, and wrote to her son, announcing her escape, and affecting entire ignorance of the plot.

The plan to murder Nero was frustrated by a freedman Milichus, who, in the hope of a large reward, disclosed the whole plot.

For some weeks the plot appeared to progress favourably.

The bibliography of the contemporary controversy is given in the article on Henry Garnet in the Dictionary of National Biography and in The Gunpowder Plot by David Jardine (1857), the latter work still remaining the principal authority on the subject; add to these Gardiner's Hist.

A large number of letters and papers in the State Paper Office relating to the plot were collected in one volume in 1819, called the Gunpowder Plot Book; these are noted in their proper place in the printed calendars of State Papers, Domestic Series; see also articles on FAWKES, GUY; TRESHAM, FRANCIS; MONTEAGLE, WILLIAM PARKER, 4TH BARON; PERCY, THOMAS; CATESBY, ROBERT; GARNET, HENRY; DIGBY, SIR EVERARD.

St. Lukes occupies a generously-sized plot which extends to around an acre in total.

The pediatrician will weigh the baby and plot his growth on a special chart.

Record your daily temperature readings in spreadsheet or plot them on graph paper.

The basic plot of the Terminator movies is cyborgs, or terminators, are designed to take over the world from the human race.

The basic plot remains the same, with humanity fleeing from a Cylon attack.

The plot leaves plenty of room for humor and action.

Make a list of your necessities for the upcoming year, and then plot out how you will buy your pieces to save the most money.

When you're ready, make a brief summary or plot outline for your game.

Participants will wrap their packages so as to conceal the true nature of the gifts, and plot out ways to claim the "best" gifts.

The plot involves Frosty finding a wife named Crystal, who comes to life when Frosty makes her a bouquet of ice flowers.

The plot is a little more complicated than the previous Frosty specials.

While the swinging lifestyle is featured in a television or movie plot from time to time, it typically exists under the radar.

Source local maps from the internet, and use the phone book to plot a course.

If you are able to recall the plot in any detail, you weren't trying hard enough to be romantic together!