Noun

(en noun)

A result that one is attempting to achieve.

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In many sports, an area into which the players attempt to put an object.

The act of placing the object into the goal.

A point scored in a game as a result of placing the object into the goal.

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=April 15, author=Saj Chowdhury, work=BBC Sport

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A noun or noun phrase that receives the action of a verb. The subject of a passive verb or the direct object of an active verb. Also called a patient, target, or undergoer.

Noun

(en noun)

A systematic plan of future action.

* Jonathan Swift

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

* {{quote-magazine, title=Ideas coming down the track, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838

, page=13 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=A “moving platform” scheme

A plot or secret, devious plan.

An orderly combination of related parts.

* John Locke

the appearance and outward scheme of things

* Atterbury

such a scheme of things as shall at once take in time and eternity

* J. Edwards

arguments sufficient to support and demonstrate a whole scheme of moral philosophy

* Macaulay

The Revolution came and changed his whole scheme of life.

A chart or diagram of a system or object.

* South

to draw an exact scheme of Constantinople, or a map of France

(mathematics) A type of topological space.

(UK, chiefly, Scotland) A council housing estate.

* 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 101:

It was all too dear. They all just put their prices up because it was out in the scheme .

(rhetoric) An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.

(astrology) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.

* Sir Walter Scott

a blue case, from which was drawn a scheme of nativity

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