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Domicile vs Plot - What's the difference?

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Domicile is a related term of plot.


As nouns the difference between domicile and plot

is that domicile is (formal) a home or residence while plot is the course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.

As verbs the difference between domicile and plot

is that domicile is to have a domicile in a particular place while plot is to conceive (a crime, etc).

domicile

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (formal) A home or residence.
    • The call to jury duty was sent to my legal domicile ; too bad I was on vacation at the time.
  • (legal) A residence at a particular place accompanied with an intention to remain there for an unlimited time; a residence accepted as a final abode.
    • (Wharton)

    Related terms

    * domiciled * domiciliary

    Verb

  • To have a domicile in a particular place.
    • The answer depends on in which state he was domiciled at his death.
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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

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