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What (who) is plot - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Plotting; Plots; Plot (disambiguation)
Plot
·noun A plan; a purpose.
II. Plot ·noun A plantation laid out.
III. Plot ·noun A small extent of ground; a plat; as, a garden plot.
IV. Plot ·noun Contrivance; deep reach of thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
V. Plot ·noun A plan or draught of a field, farm, estate, ·etc., drawn to a scale.
VI. Plot ·vi To contrive a plan or stratagem; to Scheme.
VII. Plot ·noun A share in such a plot or scheme; a participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
X. Plot ·vi To form a scheme of mischief against another, especially against a government or those who administer it; to Conspire.
XI. Plot ·noun In fiction, the story of a play, novel, romance, or poem, comprising a complication of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
XII. Plot ·noun Any scheme, stratagem, secret design, or plan, of a complicated nature, adapted to the accomplishment of some purpose, usually a treacherous and mischievous one; a conspiracy; an intrigue; as, the Rye-house Plot.
plot
¦ noun
1. a plan made in secret by a group of people to do something illegal or harmful.
2. the main sequence of events in a play, novel, or film.
3. a small piece of ground marked out for building, gardening, etc.
4. a graph showing the relation between two variables.
chiefly US a diagram, chart, or map.
¦ verb (plots, plotting, plotted)
1. secretly make plans to carry out (something illegal or harmful).
2. devise the plot of (a play, novel, or film).
3. mark (a route or position) on a chart.
mark out or allocate (points) on a graph.
make (a curve) by marking out a number of such points.
illustrate by use of a graph.
Phrases
lose the plot Brit. informal lose one's ability to understand or cope with what is happening.
the plot thickens see thicken.
Derivatives
plotless adjective
plotter noun
plotty adjective (informal).
Origin
OE (in sense 3 of the noun), of unknown origin; the sense 'secret plan' is assoc. with OFr. complot 'dense crowd, secret project'.
plot
I. n.
1.
Plat, piece of ground.
2.
Plan (of a piece of land), draught, sketch, outline.
3.
Scheme (especially for a bad purpose), stratagem, conspiracy, intrigue, cabal, machination, plan, project, combination.
4.
Story, intrigue.
5.
Contrivance, reach of thought, ability to plot.
II. v. n.
1.
Plan (for some mischief), conspire.
2.
Scheme, contrive, lay a plan, form a plot.
III. v. a.
Plan (as something mischievous), concoct, contrive, project, devise, frame, brew, hatch, compass.
Examples of use of plot
1. They can frustrate plot after plot, detain suspect after suspect.
2. Dan Brown‘s book has plot, more plot and some additional plot on top of that, but not much more.
3. There, it was alleged in court, he may have met the 7/7 plot plot leaders.
4. The biggest plot to change hands was a 15,'52–square–foot plot in Mirdiff.
5. The 58,121–square–foot plot was also the biggest single plot to change hands.