Scheme vs Plot - 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.
* South
(mathematics) A type of topological space.
(UK, chiefly, Scotland) A council housing estate.
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(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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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.
Plot is a synonym of scheme.
In intransitive terms the difference between scheme and plot
is that scheme is to plot, or contrive a plan while plot is to conceive a crime, misdeed, etc.As a proper noun Scheme
is a programming language, one of the two major dialects of Lisp.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)- 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.