Plot vs Conflict - What's the difference?
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As nouns the difference between plot and conflict is that plot is the course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means while conflict is a clash or disagreement, often violent, between two opposing groups or individuals. As verbs the difference between plot and conflict is that plot is to conceive (a crime, etc) while conflict is to be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible.
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
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conflict Noun
( en noun)
A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two opposing groups or individuals.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Mark Tran
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An incompatibility, as of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled.
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Related terms
* conflictional
Verb
( en verb)
To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible
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To overlap (with), as in a schedule.
- Your conference call conflicts with my older one: please reschedule.
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