Curve vs Plot - What's the difference?
curve | plot |
(obsolete) Bent without angles; crooked; curved.
A gentle bend, such as in a road.
A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject.
(analytic geometry) A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
(geometry) A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
(algebraic geometry) An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
(topology) A one-dimensional continuum.
(informal, usually in plural) The attractive shape of a woman's body.
To bend; to crook.
To cause to swerve from a straight course.
To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
* Alexander Pope
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.
* Shakespeare
* Addison
Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
* Denham
Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
* Milton
A plan; a purpose.
* Jeremy Taylor
To conceive (a crime, etc).
To trace out (a graph or diagram).
To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
* Carew
To conceive a crime, misdeed, etc.
As verbs the difference between curve and plot
is that curve is while plot is to conceive (a crime, etc).As a noun plot is
the course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.curve
English
Adjective
- a curve line
- a curve surface
Noun
(wikipedia curve) (en noun)- You should slow down when approaching a curve .
- She scribbled a curve on the paper.
- The teacher was nice and graded the test on a curve
Derived terms
* algebraic curve * * closed curve * cosine curve * curvaceous * curvy * dragon curve * elliptic curve * learning curve * Lissajous curve * Jordan curve * multicurve * nonsimple curve * open curve * pedal curve * plane curve * pursuit curve * simple curve * sine curve * space curve * spherical curveVerb
(curv)- to curve a line
- to curve a pipe
- to curve a ball in pitching it
- the road curves to the right
- The teacher will curve the test.
plot
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- The plot would have enabled them to get a majority on the board.
- The assassination of Lincoln was part of a larger plot .
- I have overheard a plot of death.
- O, think what anxious moments pass between / The birth of plots and their last fatal periods!
- a man of much plot
- And when Christ saith, Who marries the divorced commits adultery, it is to be understood, if he had any plot in the divorce.
- no other plot in their religion but serve God and save their souls
Synonyms
* (course of a story) storyline * (area) parcel * (secret plan) conspiracy, schemeDerived terms
* Gunpowder Plot * lose the plot * plotless * subplot * the plot thickens/plot thickensVerb
(plott)- They had ''plotted a robbery.
- They ''plotted'' the number of edits per day.
- Every five minutes they ''plotted'' their position.
- This treatise plotteth down Cornwall as it now standeth.
- ''They were plotting against the king.