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Plot   /plɑt/   Listen
noun
Plot  n.  
1.
A small extent of ground; a plat; as, a garden plot.
2.
A plantation laid out. (Obs.)
3.
(Surv.) A plan or draught of a field, farm, estate, etc., drawn to a scale.


Plot  n.  
1.
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. "I have overheard a plot of death." "O, think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots and their last fatal periods!"
2.
A share in such a plot or scheme; a participation in any stratagem or conspiracy. (Obs.) "And when Christ saith, Who marries the divorced commits adultery, it is to be understood, if he had any plot in the divorce."
3.
Contrivance; deep reach of thought; ability to plot or intrigue. (Obs.) "A man of much plot."
4.
A plan; a purpose. "No other plot in their religion but serve God and save their souls."
5.
In fiction, the story of a play, novel, romance, or poem, comprising a complication of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means. "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."
Synonyms: Intrigue; stratagem; conspiracy; cabal; combination; contrivance.


verb
Plot  v. t.  (past & past part. plotted; pres. part. plotting)  To make a plot, map, pr plan, of; to mark the position of on a plan; to delineate. " This treatise plotteth down Cornwall as it now standeth."


Plot  v. t.  To plan; to scheme; to devise; to contrive secretly. "Plotting an unprofitable crime." "Plotting now the fall of others."


Plot  v. i.  
1.
To form a scheme of mischief against another, especially against a government or those who administer it; to conspire. "The wicked plotteth against the just."
2.
To contrive a plan or stratagem; to scheme. "The prince did plot to be secretly gone."





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"Plot" Quotes from Famous Books



... large slate-stones, and the roof is covered with them; one sees nothing of wood except that of the door, and above it, of the large painted shield, which states to what regiment the soldier belongs who got this house and plot of ground in ...
— Pictures of Sweden • Hans Christian Andersen
... contradictions and monstrous anomalies. We are so responsible, yet irresponsible—we are idols, we are idiots—we are everything, we are nothing. We are the Caryatides, rearing up the entablature of the temple of liberty we are never allowed to enter. We may plot against a government, and hang for it; but if we help to found and sustain a government by patriotic effort and devotion, by toil and hardship, by courage, loyalty, and faith, by the sacrifice of those nearest and dearest to us, and then venture to clutch at the ...
— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage
... been together, the whole place would have been rapidly burned down; but, fortunately for us, each little house stood in the middle of its own plot, fifty, a hundred, and sometimes several hundred yards apart, so that they burned as so many separate fires, others springing up in various directions till twelve were blazing, and no effort could be made to ...
— Mass' George - A Boy's Adventures in the Old Savannah • George Manville Fenn
... on private business; something of importance, but perfectly legitimate,—nothing to do with arms or anything of the kind. Well, Carlos did not tell Rita the object of his coming, and she instantly saw fire and gunpowder, treason and plot,—in short, cooked up a whole melodrama to suit herself,—and believed it, I have no doubt, an hour after she invented it. She wrote Carlos mysterious letters, imploring him to come to her secretly; that her fate and that of her country depended upon his faithfulness and ...
— Three Margarets • Laura E. Richards
... Winton was star-gazing, the orchestra struck up the overture to "Pagliacci." Watching that heart-breaking little plot unfold, Gyp had something more than the old thrill, as if for the first time she understood it with other than her aesthetic sense. Poor Nedda! and poor Canio! Poor Silvio! Her breast heaved, and her eyes filled ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy


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