Plot vs Structure - 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.
A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts.
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The overall form or organization of something.
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A set of rules defining behaviour.
(computing) Several pieces of data treated as a unit.
(fishing, uncountable) Underwater terrain or objects (such as a dead tree or a submerged car) that tend to attract fish
A body, such as a political party, with a cohesive purpose or outlook.
(logic) A set along with a collection of finitary functions and relations.
To give structure to; to arrange.
In transitive terms the difference between plot and structure
is that plot is to mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc) while structure is to give structure to; to arrange.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 ----structure
English
(wikipedia structure)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.}}
- The birds had built an amazing structure out of sticks and various discarded items.
- He studied the structure of her face.
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- The structure of a sentence.
- The structure of the society was still a mystery.
- For some, the structure of school life was oppressive.
- This structure contains both date and timezone information.
- There's lots of structure to be fished along the west shore of the lake; the impoundment submerged a town there when it was built.
- The South African leader went off to consult with the structures .
Synonyms
* (cohesive whole built up of distinct parts) formation * (underlying shape of a solid) formation * (overall form or organization of something) makeup, configurationDerived terms
* antistructureVerb
(structur)- I'm trying to structure my time better so I'm not always late.
- I've structured the deal to limit the amount of money we can lose.