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Premise vs Plot - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between premise and plot

is that premise is a proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition while plot is the course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.

As verbs the difference between premise and plot

is that premise is to state or assume something as a proposition to an argument while plot is to conceive (a crime, etc).

premise

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic), premiss

Noun

(en noun)
  • A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
    • The premises observed, / Thy will by my performance shall be served.
  • (logic) Any of the first propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is deduced.
  • * Dr. H. More
    • While the premises stand firm, it is impossible to shake the conclusion.
  • (usually, in the plural, legal) Matters previously stated or set forth; especially, that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted.
  • (usually, in the plural) A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts (in this sense, used most often in the plural form).
  • * , chapter=19
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises , accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.}}

    Coordinate terms

    * conclusion

    Derived terms

    * major premise * minor premise

    Verb

    (premis)
  • To state or assume something as a proposition to an argument.
  • To make a premise.
  • To set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in understanding what follows.
  • * Addison
    • I premise these particulars that the reader may know that I enter upon it as a very ungrateful task.
  • To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously.
  • * Shakespeare
    • the premised flames of the last day
  • * E. Darwin
    • if venesection and a cathartic be premised

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    Anagrams

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    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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