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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method English
Noun
( en noun)
A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something (followed by the adposition of, to or for before the purpose of the process):
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A type of theatrical acting wherein the actor utilizes his personal emotions from personal experience to portray a scripted scene.
(programming, object-oriented) A subroutine or function belonging to a class or object.
(slang) Marijuana.
Derived terms
(A process by which a task is completed)
* comparative method
* historical method
* methodical
* methodology
* scholarly method
* scientific method
* Socratic method
* philosophical method
* convenience method
* virtual method
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