Scheme vs Patten - What's the difference?
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A systematic plan of future action.
* Jonathan Swift
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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.
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(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.
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Any of various types of footwear with thick soles, often used to elevate the foot, especially wooden clogs.
* 1660 , (Samuel Pepys), Diary , 24 Jan 1660:
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(UK, dialect, obsolete) A stilt.
As nouns the difference between scheme and patten
is that scheme is while patten is any of various types of footwear with thick soles, often used to elevate the foot, especially wooden clogs.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
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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. }}
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English
Noun
(en noun)- I went and told part of the excise money till twelve o’clock, and then called on my wife and took her to Mr. Pierces, she in the way being exceedingly troubled with a pair of new pattens , and I vexed to go so slow, it being late.
- Tom Freckle, the smith's son, was the next victim to her rage. He was an ingenious workman, and made excellent pattens'; nay, the very ' patten with which he was knocked down was his own workmanship.
- (Halliwell)