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Plot is a related term of hatch.


As a noun plot

is the course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.

As a verb plot

is to conceive (a crime, etc).

As a proper noun hatch is

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plot

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • 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.
  • An area or land used for building on or planting on.
  • A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
  • A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable.
    • The plot would have enabled them to get a majority on the board.
    The assassination of Lincoln was part of a larger plot .
  • * Shakespeare
    • I have overheard a plot of death.
  • * Addison
    • O, think what anxious moments pass between / The birth of plots and their last fatal periods!
  • Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
  • * Denham
    • a man of much plot
  • Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
  • * Milton
    • And when Christ saith, Who marries the divorced commits adultery, it is to be understood, if he had any plot in the divorce.
  • A plan; a purpose.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • no other plot in their religion but serve God and save their souls

    Synonyms

    * (course of a story) storyline * (area) parcel * (secret plan) conspiracy, scheme

    Derived terms

    * Gunpowder Plot * lose the plot * plotless * subplot * the plot thickens/plot thickens

    Verb

    (plott)
  • To conceive (a crime, etc).
    • They had ''plotted a robbery.
  • To trace out (a graph or diagram).
    • They ''plotted'' the number of edits per day.
  • To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
    • Every five minutes they ''plotted'' their position.
  • * Carew
    • This treatise plotteth down Cornwall as it now standeth.
  • To conceive a crime, misdeed, etc.
    • ''They were plotting against the king.

    Synonyms

    * (contrive) becast * (sense) scheme

    Derived terms

    * replot

    Anagrams

    * * English control verbs ----

    hatch

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) hache, from (etyl) ‘hedge’. More at hedge.

    Noun

    (es)
  • A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
  • A trapdoor.
  • An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A .
    • The cook passed the dishes through the serving hatch .
  • A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.
  • An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine.
  • (slang) A gullet.
  • A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
  • A floodgate; a sluice gate.
    • (Ainsworth)
  • (Scotland) A bedstead.
    • (Sir Walter Scott)
  • (mining) An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
    • Derived terms
    * down the hatch * hatchwise

    Verb

  • To close with a hatch or hatches.
  • * Shakespeare
    • 'Twere not amiss to keep our door hatched .

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) hacchen ‘to propagate’, cognate with German hecken ‘to breed, spawn’, Danish ; akin to Latvian kakale ‘penis’.Wolfgang Pfeifer, ed., Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen , s.v. “hecken” (Munich: Deutscher Taschenbucher Vertrag, 2005).

    Verb

    (es)
  • (of young animals) To emerge from an egg.
  • (of eggs) To break open when a young animal emerges from it.
  • To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.
  • To devise.
    • to hatch''' a plan or a plot; to '''hatch mischief or heresy
    Derived terms
    * hatchling
    References

    Noun

    (head)
  • The act of hatching.
  • Development; disclosure; discovery.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • (poultry) A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
    • These pullets are from an April hatch .
  • The phenomenon, lasting 1-2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity.
  • * Edward R. Hewitt, quoted in 1947', Charles K. Fox, ''Redistribution of the Green Drake'', '''1997 , Norm Shires, Jim Gilford (editors), ''Limestone Legends , page 104,
    • The Willowemoc above Livington Manor had the largest mayfly hatch I ever knew about fifty years ago.
  • * 2004 , Ed Engle, Fishing Small Flies , page 118,
    • The major application of the parachute is for mayfly hatches', but it's also useful for midge ' hatches .
  • * 2007 , John Shewey, On the Fly Guide to the Northwest , page 70,
    • Many years the mayfly hatch' begins by the time the lake opens in April. Otherwise, expect strong '''hatches''' by mid-May. The ' hatches continue through midsummer.
  • (informal) A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper) — compare the phrase "hatched, matched, and dispatched."

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl)

    Verb

    (es)
  • To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (cross-hatch).
  • * Dryden
    • Those hatching strokes of the pencil.
  • * Chapman
    • Shall win this sword, silvered and hatched .
  • (obsolete) To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • His weapon hatched in blood.

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