Plotted vs Blotted - What's the difference?
plotted | blotted |
(plot)
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.
(blot)
A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance.
* Shakespeare
(by extension) A stain on someone's reputation or character; a disgrace.
* Shakespeare
(biochemistry) The Southern blot analysis (and derived Northern and Western) analytical techniques.
(backgammon) an exposed piece in backgammon.
to cause a blot (on something) by spilling a coloured substance.
to soak up or absorb liquid.
To dry (writing, etc.) with blotting paper.
To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
* Gascoigne
To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
* Shakespeare
To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
* Rowe
To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; generally with out .
* Dryden
To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
* Cowley
As verbs the difference between plotted and blotted
is that plotted is past tense of plot while blotted is past tense of blot.plotted
English
Verb
(head)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 ----blotted
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*blot
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Noun
(en noun)- inky blots
- This deadly blot in thy digressing son.
Verb
- This paper blots easily.
- The briefe was writte and blotted all with gore.
- It blots thy beauty, as frosts do bite the meads.
- Blot not thy innocence with guiltless blood.
- to blot out a word or a sentence
- One act like this blots out a thousand crimes.
- He sung how earth blots the moon's gilded wane.