noun
- A secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal. )
- usage: "they concocted a plot to discredit the governor"; "I saw through his little game from the start"
- synonyms: secret plan, game
- A small area of ground covered by specific vegetation.
- usage: "a bean plot"; "a cabbage patch"; "a briar patch"
- synonyms: plot of land, plot of ground, patch
- The story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc..
- usage: "the characters were well drawn but the plot was banal"
- A chart or map showing the movements or progress of an object.
verb
- Plan secretly, usually something illegal.
- usage: "They plotted the overthrow of the government"
- Make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed.
- synonyms: diagram
- Make a plat of.
- usage: "Plat the town"
- synonyms: plat
- Devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet. )
- usage: "the writer is plotting a new novel"
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