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plot | plate |

As a noun plot

is the course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.

As a verb plot

is to conceive (a crime, etc).

As an adjective plate is

(heraldry) (strewn) with plates.

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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    plate

    English

    (wikipedia plate)

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) plate < .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A flat dish from which food is served or eaten.
    • I filled my plate from the bountiful table.
  • (uncountable) Such dishes collectively.
  • The contents of such a dish.
    • I ate a plate of beans.
  • A course at a meal.
    • The meat plate was particularly tasty.
  • (figuratively) An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities
    • With revenues down and transfer payments up, the legislature has a full plate .
  • A flat metallic object of uniform thickness.
    • A clutch usually has two plates .
  • A vehicle license plate.
    • He stole a car and changed the plates as soon as he could.
  • A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating
    • The bullets just bounced off the steel plate on its hull .
  • A material covered with such a layer.
    • If you're not careful, someone will sell you silverware that's really only silver plate .
  • (dated) A decorative or food service item coated with silver.
    • The tea was served in the plate .
  • (weightlifting) A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.
  • (printing) An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.
    • We finished making the plates this morning.
  • (printing, photography) An image or copy.
  • (printing, publishing) An illustration in a book, either black and white, or colour, usually on a page of paper of different quality from the text pages.
  • (dentistry) A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.
  • (construction) A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
  • (Cockney rhyming slang) A foot, from "plates of meat".
    • Sit down and give your plates a rest.
  • (baseball) Home plate.
    • There was a close play at the plate .
  • (geology) A tectonic plate.
  • (historical) Plate armour.
    • He was confronted by two knights in full plate .
  • * Milton
    • mangled through plate and mail
  • (herpetology) Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.
  • (engineering, electricity) An electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank.
  • (engineering, electricity) The anode of a vacuum tube.
    • Regulating the oscillator plate voltage greatly improves the keying.
  • (obsolete) A coin, usually a silver coin.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Realms and islands were as plates dropp'd from his pocket.
  • (heraldiccharge) A roundel of silver or tinctured argent.
  • A prize given to the winner in a contest.
  • (chemistry) Any flat piece of material like coated glass or plastic.
    • Derived terms
    * * * * * * *

    Verb

    (plat)
  • To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal.
    • This ring is plated with a thin layer of gold.
  • To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.
    • After preparation, the chef will plate the dish.
  • To perform cunnilingus.
    • He fingered her as he plated her with his tongue.
  • (baseball) To score a run.
    • The single plated the runner from second base.
  • (aviation, travel industry) To specify which airline a ticket will be issued on behalf of.
    • Tickets are normally plated on an itinerary's first international airline.
    Derived terms
    * electroplate

    Etymology 2

    (etyl), partly from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Precious metal, especially silver.
  • * 1864 , Andrew Forrester, The Female Detective :
    • At every meal—and I have heard the meals at Petleighcote were neither abundant nor succulent—enough plate stood upon the table to pay for the feeding of the poor of the whole county for a month
  • *
    • At the northern extremity of this chill province the gold plate of the Groans, pranked across the shining black of the long table, smoulders as though it contains fire

    Anagrams

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