Subplot vs Axes - What's the difference?
subplot | axes |
A plot within a story, subsidiary to the main plot.
*1978, R.B. Lee & R. Misiorowski, Script Models: A Handbook for the Media Writer ,
*:Subplot , a story line enclosed within the principal story to provide relief from the main plot's tension, add character dimension, etc.
*1998 : Stephen Roy Miller, The Taming of a Shrew: the 1594 quarto
*:Structurally, the two most variant scenes (outside of Scene ii) are Scenes 3 and 4 in which the compiler works out the variant subplot .
*2001 : Dennis O'Neil, The DC Comics Guide to Writing Comics
*:In a sense, Superman's romance with Lois Lane was a subplot and [...]
*2001, Nancy Arbuthnot Johnson, Vic Neufield, Forging Links for Health Research ,
*:But this story has a subplot' — a ' subplot about fairness and how people have divergent levels of access to knowledge and resources.
A subdivision of a plot of land, especially one used for an agricultural experiment.
*1996 : The American Midland Naturalist , published by the University of Notre Dame
*1999, E. K. Sadanandan Nambiar, Christian Cossalter, Site Management and Productivity in Tropical Plantation Forest ,
*:There are 72 trees in each plot (6x12) and 36 trees in each subplot .
*2002, M. Boya Edwards, Proceedings for the Eight Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference ,
*:Hardwood and shrub stems (besides gallberry) were counted by species and measured for total height (if greater than 2 ft) on 3 strip plots per subplot that were 0.01 acre […]
As nouns the difference between subplot and axes
is that subplot is a plot within a story, subsidiary to the main plot while axes is plural of lang=en.subplot
English
Noun
(wikipedia subplot) (en noun)- [...] on sixteen 8/10-acre plots (12.8 acres) well distributed over the area. [...] A 1/160-acre subplot was established in a randomly chosen corner of each [...]
