Plot vs Print - What's the difference?
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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.
print
Of, relating to, or writing for printed publications.
To produce one or more copies of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine; often used with out'' or ''off : print out, print off.
To produce a microchip (an integrated circuit) in a process resembling the printing of an image.
(ambitransitive) To write very clearly, especially, to write without connecting the letters as in cursive.
(ambitransitive) To publish in a book, newspaper, etc.
* Alexander Pope
To stamp or impress (something) with coloured figures or patterns.
To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.
* Surrey
* Sir John Beaumont
* Roscommon
To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.
* Dryden
(uncountable) Books and other material created by printing presses, considered collectively or as a medium.
(uncountable) Clear handwriting, especially, writing without connected letters as in cursive.
(uncountable) The letters forming the text of a document.
A visible impression on a surface.
A fingerprint.
A footprint.
(visual art) A picture that was created in multiple copies by printing.
(photography) A photograph that has been printed onto paper from the negative.
(motion pictures) A copy of a film that can be projected.
Cloth that has had a pattern of dye printed onto it.
In transitive terms the difference between plot and print
is that plot is to mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc) while print is to stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.As an adjective print is
of, relating to, or writing for printed publications.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.
Synonyms
* (contrive) becast * (sense) schemeDerived terms
* replotAnagrams
* * English control verbs ----English
Adjective
(-)Verb
(en verb)- Print the draft double-spaced so we can mark changes between the lines.
- The circuitry is printed onto the semiconductor surface.
- Print your name here and sign below.
- I'm only in grade 2, so I only know how to print .
- How could they print an unfounded rumour like that?
- From the moment he prints , he must expect to hear no more truth.
- to print calico
- A look will print a thought that never may remove.
- Upon his breastplate he beholds a dint, / Which in that field young Edward's sword did print .
- some footsteps printed in the clay
- Forth on his fiery steed betimes he rode, / That scarcely prints the turf on which he trod.
Derived terms
* printer * printing form * printing pressNoun
(en noun)- Three citations are required for each meaning, including one in print .
- TV and the internet haven't killed print .
- Write in print using block letters.
- The print is too small for me to read.
- Using a crayon, the girl made a print of the leaf under the page.
- Did the police find any prints at the scene?