Scheme vs Dream - What's the difference?
scheme | dream |
A systematic plan of future action.
* Jonathan Swift
* {{quote-magazine, title=Ideas coming down the track, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
, page=13 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist)
A plot or secret, devious plan.
An orderly combination of related parts.
* John Locke
* Atterbury
* J. Edwards
* Macaulay
A chart or diagram of a system or object.
* South
(mathematics) A type of topological space.
(UK, chiefly, Scotland) A council housing estate.
* 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 101:
(rhetoric) An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.
(astrology) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
* Sir Walter Scott
Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as
To plot, or contrive a plan.
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=April 26
, author=Tasha Robinson
, title=Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits :
, work=The Onion AV Club
Imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
* (Lord Byron) (1788-1824)
*
A hope or wish.
*
* (Martin Luther King)
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=August 5, author=Nathan Rabin
, title= A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy.
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
* (w) (1819-1885)
(lb) To see imaginary events in one's mind while sleeping.
(lb) To hope, to wish.
(lb) To daydream.
:
(lb) To envision as an imaginary experience (usually when asleep).
:
*(and other bibliographic particulars) (Cowper)
*:And still they dream that they shall still succeed.
*(and other bibliographic particulars) (Dryden)
*:At length in sleep their bodies they compose, / And dreamt the future fight, and early rose.
(lb) To consider the possibility (of).
:
*1599-1602 , (William Shakespeare), (Hamlet) , Act I scene 5, lines 167-8
*:There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
*
*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.
As nouns the difference between scheme and dream
is that scheme is while dream is imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping.As a verb dream is
(lb) to see imaginary events in one's mind while sleeping.scheme
English
(wikipedia scheme)Noun
(en noun)- The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
citation, passage=A “moving platform” scheme
- the appearance and outward scheme of things
- such a scheme of things as shall at once take in time and eternity
- arguments sufficient to support and demonstrate a whole scheme of moral philosophy
- The Revolution came and changed his whole scheme of life.
- to draw an exact scheme of Constantinople, or a map of France
- It was all too dear. They all just put their prices up because it was out in the scheme .
- a blue case, from which was drawn a scheme of nativity
http: or news:. Usage notes
In the US, generally has devious connotations, while in the UK, frequently used as a neutral term for projects: “The road is closed due to a pavement-widening scheme.”Synonyms
* (a systematic plan of future action) blueprintVerb
(schem)citation, page= , passage=The openly ridiculous plot has The Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant) scheming to win the Pirate Of The Year competition, even though he’s a terrible pirate, far outclassed by rivals voiced by Jeremy Piven and Salma Hayek. }}
References
* ----dream
English
(wikipedia dream)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . The derivation from Old English dr?am'' is controversial, since the word itself is only attested in writing in its meaning of “joy, mirth, musical sound”. Possibly there was a separate word ''dr?am meaning “images seen while sleeping”, which was avoided in literature due to potential confusion with “joy” sense, which would account for the common definition in the other Germanic languages, or the derivation may indeed simply be a strange progression from “mirth, joy, musical sound”.. Attested words for “sleeping vision” in Old English were . The verb is from (etyl) (m), possibly (see above) from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes.
- I had a dream' which was not all a ' dream .
- She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
- So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams .
- I have a dream' that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. I have a ' dream today!
TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993), passage=Ralph Wiggum is generally employed as a bottomless fount of glorious non sequiturs, but in “I Love Lisa” he stands in for every oblivious chump who ever deluded himself into thinking that with persistence, determination, and a pure heart he can win the girl of his dreams .}}
- There sober thought pursued the amusing theme, / Till Fancy coloured it and formed a dream .
- It is not to them a mere dream , but a very real aim which they propose.